Singer-turned-hero Damien Dempsey didn’t make a song and dance yesterday about the summer day he saved a swimmer’s life. The Dublin native waded into the River Slaney in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, and helped pluck a drowning man to safety.

Over the weekend, multiple hearts were broken across the NFL, as fringe players were told they wouldn’t be making their respective teams’ final 53-man squads.

Speaking at the History of Hurling one-day seminar held at The Schoolhouse venue at Muckross House in Killarney last Saturday, one of the most stylish forwards of his era reflected on a 19-year senior inter-county career.

IF YOU’RE a sportswriting fan – and given what you’re holding in your hands, you probably are – you’ve noticed the recent explosion in the number and variety of Irish sports books.

Deadlock: Dublin v Meath 1991

The autobiography of one of the greatest jockeys of all time and two books on Gaelic games have been shortlisted for the Irish Sports Book of the Year.

THE sports autobiography follows a generally predictable arc — promise, achievement, graceful decline — so it’s good to come across a book that breaks out of that strait-jacket.

IT’S been 50 years since Dublin won a Leinster SHC title, a 7-5 to 4-8 win over Wexford, and the time has come to end the wait according to Dublin’s goalkeeper Jimmy Gray in that 1961 win.

TOMORROW evening’s West Cork junior football decider in Skibbereen is dripping with novelty and charm.

DESPITE being at the centre of recent gangland shootings, it was all smiles in the fictitious suburb of Carrigstown yesterday as the cast and crew of Fair City gathered to celebrate the 2,000th episode of the popular soap.

FOLLOWING the excitement of the three day Galway Festival, the spotlight turns to Downpatrick this afternoon where the best bet on the card could be the Jessica Harrington trained Mr Wong in the Fosters In Wineflair Beginners Chase, over two miles and two furlongs

I READ with interest Jim O’Sullivan’s article (Irish Examiner Tuesday July 1), titled — Mullane: two fingers bad, three goals good.

Tipperary 1-14 Carlow 0-13

SCAVANGING paid dividends for the owners of a 1960s-built Wicklow home - they conducted a thoughtful plundering of architectural salvage at a time before it was either popular or profitable made the house what it is today.

Carlow have made one change from the side that beat Wicklow for their meeting with Leinster Football Champions Kildare.

Carlow make one change from the side that beat Wicklow for their meeting with Leinster Football Champions Kildare at Croke Park this Sunday.

A Joe Byrne punched point two minutes deep into injury time gave Carlow a deserved victory over Wicklow in this Bank of Ireland opening round replay at Newbridge today.