After succeeding Pat Gilroy in late 2012, it is the third extension the five-time All-Ireland SFC winning boss has enjoyed.

A Group One winner in the saddle, Tylicki had his career cut short tragically when a fall left him paralysed in October 2016.

Croke Park Dublin manager Jim Gavin sidestepped questions about five titles in-a-row neatly yesterday, which was hardly surprising.

Charlie Redmond was in Omagh for Dublin’s Super 8s game last month when a couple of Tyrone teenagers cheekily brought up 1995.

In the large room upstairs in Galway football’s training centre in Loughgeorge, there used to be a plaque of Leonardo Da Vinci’s

Dr Crokes 1-18 Dingle 1-8: Dr Crokes claimed a fifth senior club championship crown in seven seasons when crushing Dingle at a windswept Austin Stack Park, yesterday.

Dublin 0-20 Donegal 0-15: Dublin manager Jim Gavin insists that attacker Diarmuid Connolly remains part of the All-Ireland champions’ panel and could make a return to duty in their next game.

IT Tralee 1-07 - DIT 3-17: A two-goal salvo just before half-time by wing-back Enda Flanagan from Cavan knocked the wind out of IT Tralee last night, as DIT marched on to the semi-finals of the Sigerson Cup.

After watching David Clifford secure a first Sigerson Cup win for Tralee in 11 years, manager Liam Brosnan questioned the need for one of Kerry’s treasured assets to be playing senior county football so soon.

Dublin 1-13 Offaly 0-16: Teenager Cian Johnson came of age at Parnell Park with a thrilling display and the equaliser to deny Bord na Mona O’Byrne Cup holders Dublin.

Provincial championship victories for Cork clubs over Kerry are infrequent enough for yesterday’s Munster Club SFC final to be toasted beyond the confines of Nemo Rangers’ expansive Trabeg base. But giddy suggestions their 0-16 to 0-11 victory over Dr Crokes may be the trigger for a Cork football resurgence might be stretching the point some.

Dr Crokes managed to grind out a comeback win after being reduced to 14-men for most of the second-half of their Munster Club SFC quarter-final in Clonmel.

The last two winners of the Bishop Moynihan Cup, Dr Crokes and South Kerry, will contest the Kerry SFC final on October 22.

A man and woman have been arrested on suspicion of planning to abduct a baby from London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Dublin 3-13 Dubs Stars 4-9: We didn’t, in all honesty, learn much about Dublin football at Parnell Park yesterday that we don’t already know.

A man who fell out of a first-floor window was found dead on his doorstep the next morning.

Concerted campaign or just a confluence of opinions?

Former Mayo footballer Trevor Mortimer says the series of negative comments from Dublin figures about Lee Keegan shows the champions are rattled going into tomorrow’s All-Ireland final replay.

Trust us when we write this: there is enough reason to believe the war waged against Lee Keegan by Dublin GAA figures since the drawn All-Ireland final is a campaign.

All-Ireland final preview special featuring Barry Cahill, Paul Clarke and Eugene Lavin.

A prisoner has lost his bid for release in a major ruling concerning the effect of the striking down last month of the laws governing the courts powers to activate suspended sentences.

A father of one caught with a cash box containing €50,000 which was stolen during an ATM delivery has been sentenced to a year in prison.

Douglas 1-14 St Finbarr’s 0-9: The meeting of these city rivals at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday failed to live up to its pre-match billing as a tantalising first round Cork SHC derby. A contest that lacked any real intensity saw Douglas up the ante in the final quarter with a rush of scores to run out deserving winners.

Students putting the final touches to projects for next month’s BT Young Scientist competition have the added incentive of up to €2,000 each towards a university education.

Five-star luxury and thatched Irish houses don’t normally go hand in hand – with the latter, you normally take the rough (and sometimes uncombed) with the smooth.

It was only earlier this month that Bernard Brogan was providing Jim McGuinness with a most back-handed sort of compliment on his departure as Donegal manager.

Three Cork teenagers have bagged the top prize at this year’s Google Science Fair for their project, Natural Bacteria Combating World Hunger.

The trend of the Meath SFC title not being retained since Dunshaughlin completed a three-in-a-row in 2002 continues, with Wolfe Tones sending holders Summerhill packing, 2-11 to 0-8, in a quarter-final clash at Páirc Tailteann on Saturday.

A recent survey has found that 79% of students have admitted accessing social media at school, with 44% of students accessing it between one and five times in every school day.

There are nine teams left in the race for the Meath SFC following the concluding round of group games over the weekend when holders Summerhill recovered from two defeats and a draw to advance to the knockout stages.

mickey Linden’s sporting career was as long as it was illustrious but two All-Ireland titles and three Ulster crowns don’t tell half the story about a man who, along with Peter Canavan, was probably the most electrifying inside forward in the country during the 1990s.

A 20-year-old man was suffering from “an acute exacerbation” of schizophrenia when he brandished knives towards two passers-by and six gardaí, a court has heard.

Lawyers representing a 20-year-old Dublin man who attempted to attack two civilians and six gardaí with kitchen knives have claimed that he was legally insane during the incident.

The overseas placement of Irish children will continue, writes Noel Baker. It’s time to ensure the ‘before’ and ‘after’ services deliver.

A draft report compiled on behalf of the Department of Children and the HSE two years ago highlighted problems of staff vacancies and high absenteeism within Ireland’s secure care system and also recommended phasing out overseas placements.

A fifth year student who has contributed to a scientific effort to solve an 80-year-old mathematical puzzle is the 50th BT young scientist of the year.