A couple of months off turning 32, TJ Reid may privately accept winning three more All-Ireland medals to catch Henry Shefflin’s record of 10 isn’t going to happen.

Ailing attendances, the strong getting stronger and the weak getting weaker, the Ulster championship finds itself at a crossroads.

There was a time early on in his career when it was almost mandatory to precede Robbie Henshaw’s name with the phrase ‘former Westmeath minor footballer’ given his three Leinster Championship appearances for the county.

Martin O’Neill says he could turn to Bohemians stopper Shane Supple to alleviate his goalkeeping crisis.

After the big freeze, the thaw, but you suspect that not even the most advanced computer models could have predicted that the temperature of Irish football would rise as dramatically as it has done over the past few days.

The IFA have said that Michael O’Neill was speaking “in a personal capacity” when he criticised the FAI’s recruitment of players from Northern Ireland and charged that they only approach Catholics.

Imokilly 1-24 Sarsfields 2-21: Paudie O’Sullivan’s 64^th-minute equaliser for Imokilly ensured that the East Cork division and Sarsfields must meet again to determine Blackrock’s opponents in the Cork SHC final.

Dubliner Helen O’Rourke is celebrating 20 years as chief executive of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association. It’s been a hectic week at headquarters as the LGFA prepares for tomorrow’s TG4 All-Ireland finals in the junior, intermediate and senior grades.

West Cork islanders Olive and Sean O’Neill have been forced to put their home up for sale and are moving to the mainland so their children can attend school.

One place off top spot in the group, highly respected Eastern European opposition in town, and a second successive qualification for a major tournament on the line. Yep, Belfast must have been rocking on Monday evening.

Lee Keegan can understand why people from Dublin, as All-Ireland champions, were disappointed he pipped Brian Fenton and Ciarán Kilkenny for the Footballer of the Year award.

The directors of one of the best-known sporting brands here, O’Neills, have warned that Brexit and its associated uncertainty is a considerable risk to the company’s outlook.

I always loved watching the All-Ireland hurling final, particularly when we were preparing for another shot at the football title with Kerry.

Galway may be heading for Armagh on Sunday, but on Monday, they will be going to the sun and a five-day warm weather training camp.

These are the colours Cork will wear when they face Kilkenny at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday night.

Aid agencies and rights groups have accused the Government of shutting them out of efforts to tackle the refugee crisis.

THE scale of Europe’s refugee crisis appears immense but it could attain biblical proportions in the not too distant future because of the failure of EU nations to agree a common strategy, the lethargy of the United Nations and, notably, climate change.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Peter Dowdall sings the praises of Hostas, a powerful stimulant to our happy memories of childhood.

Rory McIlroy’s seemingly inevitable absence from next week’s Open Championship and possibly beyond should not deter the four-time major champion from kickabouts with his mates, believes Shane Lowry.

If Cork had somebody to rope the wind, they might just have left Ballyshannon with a league point last Sunday.

One household in Boulder will have split loyalties when Cork host Kerry tomorrow afternoon

It was panic stations on Friday and Aiden O’Sullivan was an oasis of calm, says John Riordan.

Having conquered the GAA world, sportswear company O’Neills have set their sights a little further afield — in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

So a quick pop quiz — name the current sponsors of the All-Ireland hurling championship?

After three Leinster final appearances and three Leinster final defeats, it would be tempting for Paraic Sullivan to suggest Rhode’s latest provincial decider is life and death stuff.

Irish sportswear firm, O’Neill’s has just opened a sales office in Australia in a bid to take advantage of the emigrant dollar there.

Cork U21B HC final: With nine Cork SFC titles, the most recent in 2009, Clonakilty are seen as a footballing powerhouse.

Rolling north through the pleasant greenery of Tipperary, Laois and er, the other counties you pass getting to Dublin gave me a chance to catch up on my reading.

Thankfully, Adam King doesn’t take offence easily.

Clare O’Reilly spent five summers of her teenage years at Irish college. This summer she went on a day-trip down memory lane

Ballinhassig, Cork €650,000

Irish sportswear giant O’Neills has inked a five-year partnership with Premiership rugby club London Irish.

A group lobbying for better working conditions in Bangladesh clothes factories has called on O’Neills to be transparent in how its sports gear is manufactured.