Having failed to go the full distance in the opening two rounds of the World Rally Championship, the Irish duo of Kris Meeke/Paul Nagle (Citroen DS3 WRC) seek better fortune on this weekend’s Rally Mexico, the first gravel event of the year. 

The Abu Dhabi Total WRT that includes Kris Meeke/Paul Nagle and Craig Breen/Scott Martin complete their competitive season on Wales Rally GB that begins today. 

Tipperary’s new U21 boss Declan Browne has backed the county board’s decision to shoot down proposed new senior football championship proposals.

Scottish ace David Bogie (Skoda Fabia R5) was expected to win the Longford Arms Hotel Midland Rally and while he did, he hadto fashion a late recovery to oust long time leader and former winner Paddy McVeigh (Subaru WRC).

The intricacies of a farmyard lane network proved to be a major factor in the Carbery Navigation Trial in Leap in West Cork where the Ovens/Drinagh duo of Donal Healy/Denis O’Donovan (Toyota Starlet) triumphed to move into the lead of the Munster Navigation Trial Championship.

Kerry GAA secretary Peter Twiss has warned against a “highly dangerous” proposal from a senior football club in the county of postponing all SFC games between July’s Munster final and Kerry’s exit from the All-Ireland Football Championship.

Aiming to win the Westlodge Hotel Fastnet Rally for an unprecedented fourth time, Daragh O’Riordan (Ford Fiesta WRC) heads a close-to- capacity entry for what is the final counter in the Tritons Showers National Rally Championship and the PlasticBags.ie Southern 4 series.

Motorsport: A new season of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship is marked by a very competitive entry for tomorrow’s Donegal Forest Rally in Pettigoe.

Motorsport.

FINE people have made this country great, but few can match John Delaney, the chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland, who was in the news, again, last week, being unfairly pilloried, subjected to media intrusion, victimised.

The last time I reported on Kerry in Newbridge, they grabbed the national league point they probably deserved yesterday.

GAA Director General Pauric Duffy has revealed his annual report to Congress this morning at a press briefing at Croke Park.

Joe Hannigan was last night elected as Tipperary’s new football board chairman.

Crossmaglen were 14 points to the good with three minutes left when Óisín McConville was called ashore and the near-10,000 crowd rose in unison to applaud him off the field.

FORMER Presidential candidate Seán Fogarty has warned the GAA is hurtling towards professionalism.

The debate continues this morning following the release of the GAA's discussion documents on the payment of managers.

AS has become the norm on these trips, the president of the GAA took an hour out of his day on the end-of-season All-Stars tour yesterday to survey the lay of the land for the association as one year draws to a close and another looms large.

TIPPERARY officials have vowed to fight to preserve the position of John Evans as director of football.

The GAA has not ruled out mimicking other codes like Premier League soccer by putting players’ names on the backs of their jerseys.

IS THERE any irony to be mined from the tributes being paid to Cork County Board secretary, Frank Murphy, falling on the anniversary of the outbreak of World War II?

GAA PRESIDENT Christy Cooney is hopeful that planned talks with the Gaelic Players Association can be successfully completed by the end of September.

GAA Director General Pauric Duffy expects that neither Antrim nor Wexford will be relegated from the Liam McCarthy Cup.

THE first thing that struck me about the Cork GAA club report issued during the week was the layout: the points were set out plainly and simply, in clear understandable language, in a format that could be read quickly, with no ambiguity.

NEWS that the GAA and the Gaelic Players Association have agreed a formal process for dialogue in the next couple of weeks is hardly a shock, given recent faint noises in the background.

The GAA is expected to outline its latest proposals today in relation to official recognition of the Gaelic Players' Association.

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1.WHY aren’t there more Irish rugby players with tattoos? Every second Welsh player last weekend had some kind of ink curling out from underneath a sleeve, leaving the boys in green looking a little... pasty in comparison.

Cork GAA clubs voted in support of a motion from their Co Executive last night which gives the GAA’s Central Council the task of selecting the next Cork senior hurling manager.

MONDAY night, and another meeting of the Cork County Board. How many is that now?

FORMER All-Ireland winning coach Donal O’Grady has ruled himself out of a return to the Cork hurling hot seat.

AS PARLIAMENTARY gatherings go, last night’s county board meeting in Páirc Uí Chaoimh probably lacked a little in terms of drama and theatre.

At a meeting of the Cork County Board tonight, delegates voted to appoint Under-21 boss John Considine and his selection team as the Cork senior hurling interim management.

ON TUESDAY night the Cork County Board met and dismissed last Sunday’s meeting of players and club officials in Cork as having “no standing” in the rules of the GAA.

CORK County Board chairman Jerry O’Sullivan says there is “no ulterior motive” behind the existence of development squads in Gaelic football within the county, despite suggestions at Tuesday night’s county board meeting that those squads would replace the county senior footballers if they withdrew their services at the conclusion of the National Football League.

THE scene is set for another highly-charged meeting of the Cork County Board tonight following extraordinary scenes at the Maryborough House Hotel on Sunday night.

NICKEY BRENNAN has defended Croke Park’s handling of the Cork hurling crisis after almost a week of various claims, counter claims and meetings, all of which have failed to bring the issue any closer to a resolution.

Three members of the Cork's 2008 senior hurling panel have rejected claims that they are willing to return to action under present manager Gerald McCarthy.

Cork GAA club delegates expressed their disgust and frustration at last night's county board meeting at Páirc Uí Chaoimh over what some see as a small stumbling block in the bid to resolve the Cork hurling dispute.

The GAA have outlined the brief for last night's meeting in Cork which saw GAA President elect Christy Cooney and Director General Pauric Duffy meet with Cork GAA officials, senior hurling manager Gerald McCarthy and the striking 2008 Cork hurling panel.

A high-powered delegation from Croke Park held exploratory talks with all sides involved in the Cork GAA dispute last night, but failed to find a resolution.