Seamus Darby has savoured the joy, dealt with the fame, and endured the adversity that followed the most famous goal in GAA history, writes Colm Buckley.

The Mike Quirke era of Laois football began with a defeat in the opening round of the O’Byrne Cup against neighbours Offaly on Saturday.

Fine Gael TD Bernard Durkan has launched a blistering attack on Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy during a private meeting of the parliamentary party.

Ireland’s world-beating ploughmen Eamonn Tracey from Carlow and John Whelan from Wexford will between them bid for their 13th top-two-in-the-world performances, after winning their national test matches at Carlow last week.

Michael Moynihan asks a few different questions for the week ahead.

...and ended up in the Premier League with Sheffield United. Ireland defender John Egan on his enduring love of Gaelic games, the influence and legacy of his famous father, and why, after facing Chelsea today, he hopes to see the Kingdom put a stop to the Dubs’ drive for five tomorrow. He talks to Liam Mackey.

Ireland have been drawn fourth to jump in tomorrow's Longines FEI Nations Cup of Ireland for the Aga Khan Trophy at the 2019 Stena Line Dublin Horse Show.

It was a plan hatched in the depths of grief, but there were scenes of joy yesterday when farmer John Dolan finally laid eyes on his record-breaking hen that has who’s been stuffed for posterity.

After the historic Open win, the mammoth celebrations.

Shane Lowry has woken up this morning as the Open champion.

The joy and release of Limerick’s All-Ireland win and the pain of his sister’s passing last year have changed Joe Quaid’s outlook on life.

Solidarity-PBP's Ruth Coppinger is to meet the Agriculture Minister to seek clarity on his plans to ban fur farming in Ireland.

From as far back as fowl fanatic John Dolan can remember, the Banagher, Co. Offaly native has dreamed of producing one of the greatest chickens the world has ever seen.

Former Waterford manager Derek McGrath has rejected claims that the county’s senior hurling team are in crisis.

When the poet told us we cannot bear too much reality, he was hardly thinking of the Waterford hurlers, but you never know.

Bryan McMahon saved Meath's blushes with a late goal to turn a potential disaster into a battling Leinster SFC win for the hosts in Navan.

Kerry hurling manager Fintan O’Connor has urged GAA chiefs to introduce live streaming of Joe McDonagh Cup games so as to improve the competition’s profile.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime...

So that’s Monday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

"It’s about time a couple of individuals started looking in the mirror and saying ‘is this really for me or have I enough of it?’"

ALL-IRELAND champions Cork survived an extremely stern examination from Tipperary at The Ragg.

Galway 5-18 Offaly 2-15

Clare needed every one of their 20 scores to edge out a valiant Offaly side that refused to give in.

Offaly 2-20 Antrim 1-15

Seven-time All-Ireland winner Brian Hogan knows the impression people have is that Brian Cody ruled the Kilkenny dressingroom with an iron fist and that all the players lived in fear of him. But he insists Cody never inhibited his players and sometimes even joined in the laughter. Here he provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes insight into the way Cody empowered his players and continues to turn young hurlers into leaders.

“Taoiseach, will you come over and speak to me?” Leo Varadkar was beckoned across the street by a woman in a pink hi-vis jacket.

A group of teenagers were seen in Edenderry, Co. Offaly holding their breath for as long as they could while their heads are completely wrapped in plastic.

Offaly 1-19 Kilkenny 0-24

Shane Lowry plans to move his family to the US next year as he attempts to halt his worrying slide down the world rankings after two frustrating years on the PGA Tour.

A Pakistani takeaway delivery driver was shocked to find a man standing beside the open boot of a car wearing a balaclava and pointing a gun at him.

No surprises here. Not even the hint of any.

John Heslin held his nerve to kick an equalising point from a free in the fourth minute of injury time and send this local derby to a replay in Mullingar next Saturday.

This September, Stephen Cluxton will aim to become only the second man in GAA history to lift the Sam Maguire Cup on three consecutive occasions, the first being Wexford football captain Seán O’Kennedy between 1915 and ’17.

Police in England are appealing for witnesses after an Offaly man collapsed and died after what they described as "a verbal altercation".

The family of a young Offaly man who were promised an inquiry into how gardaí investigated his death say they have been left in the dark for the last nine months.

Niall McNamee has welcomed the GAA’s motion to penalise players, management and officials betting on games in which they are involved.

Laois 1-16 Meath 2-13: A controversial late penalty saw Meath advance on Saturday night in Stradbally to the O’Byrne Cup semi-finals at the expense of hosts Laois.

Rory McIlroy believes he needs at least one win from his next three events to become only the second man after Henrik Stenson to win the FedEx Cup and Race to Dubai in the same season.

Walking off the pitch in 1982 after hitting the goal for Offaly that ended Kerry’s five-in-a-row bid, Seamus Darby was collared by a supporter.