Politicians and others in high-profile positions should take legal action against people abusing them online, according to Sports Minister Patrick O’Donovan, insisting the criticism they face is tantamount to “thuggery”.

There was a changing of the guard at the Kerry GAA Convention in Tralee last night, with Tim Murphy (Brosna) assuming the chair as Patrick O’Sullivan completed his five-year term.

The announcement by Minister for Sport Patrick O’Donovan yesterday that sports bodies will have State funding cut unless at least 30% of their board members are female was broadly welcomed yesterday.

Any national governing body that does not adhere to Sport Ireland‘s new governance programme will have their funding removed, according to Minister of State for Sport, Patrick O’Donovan.

Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan has defended the decision of the board executive not to stage a homecoming for the county’s victorious minor footballers.

Ireland’s Olympic boss Pat Hickey has been told by sports ministers Shane Ross and Patrick O’Donovan to clarify urgently what he knows about the ticket touting scandal.

Newly appointed junior tourism minister, Patrick O’Donovan, has been urged to act on the decision by Waterways Ireland to close to navigation stretches of the River Shannon that pass through Limerick.

Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan admits the recent floods have driven the board bonkers and estimates 95% of pitches in the county at the moment are unplayable.

This year’s Billy Coleman Young Rally Driver of the Year Award rests between the trio of Monaghan’s Josh Moffett, Killarney’s Rob Duggan and Omagh’s Patrick O’Brien, who successfully came through the interview process earlier this week.

Kerry bid for their second back-to-back All-Ireland in less than a decade tomorrow at Croke Park, but you’d have got long odds on that in 2012 after they’d lost a quarter-final to Donegal. No-one was putting their hand up to replace Jack O’Connor, something Kerry GAA chairman Patrick O’Sullivan recognised better than most. So what’s changed? And how much longer can the Kingdom stay top of the tree

Richard Fitzpatrick has been researching the life of a former Manchester United captain, Patrick O'Connell, who secretly had two wives - one in Dublin and the other in Spain

Patrick O’Donoghue just edged PJ Cooney in the last shot of their Munster intermediate championship clash at Templemichael on Saturday. 

Kerry board chairman Patrick O’Sullivan has challenged Dublin manager Jim Gavin’s claim Fionn Fitzgerald exaggerated his fall which led to Mick Fitzsimons’ sending off on Sunday.

Kerry County Board chairman Patrick O’Sullivan believes that this year’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay showed that big championship games can be held outside Croke Park.

Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan has welcomed the latest statement by a hurling club from the county in the Munster IHC.

Title: The Visitors

Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan has welcomed the €300,000 in sports capital funding to assist the development of a centre of excellence but revealed further assistance will be sought in line with recent Government funding of Páirc Uí Chaoimh.