The curse of the cruciate has struck both the Ballaghaderreen and St Brigid’s camps hard this year and four players will miss Sunday’s Connacht Club SFC final due to torn cruciate knee ligaments.

Maria McCambridge had a point to prove.

A COLLEAGUE who sat in on the 1991 All-Star selection meeting was amused by the Northern lobby’s capacity to find ever more important bodily parts, organs, and constituents to equate with members of the Down team, which had just won the All-Ireland.

A new national park should be built in the Dublin Mountains to ensure a better quality of life for citizens of the capital, the Green Party said today.