Some years ago the accompanying headline was the title of an essay that appeared on the Leaving Certificate English paper.

The higher-level English paper two for Leaving Certificate students was deemed fair and appropriately challenging by one teacher yesterday evening.

Clare have tabled another motion opposing pay-per-view, while Leitrim have joined Roscommon in calling for the GAA not to renew their broadcasting deals with Sky Sports and Eir when they elapse in 2021.

It’s a thankless task, editing a poetry anthology — by their very nature they attract criticism for who makes the final cut and who doesn’t. 

Today is World Poetry Day, so Jonathan deBurca Butler asked a number of people to select their favourite work

John Horan was last night elected as the first Dublin-born GAA president since 1924 when Daniel McCarthy finished his three-year term.

Dublin's John Horan is the President elect of the GAA after being elected by landslide at the GAA Congress this evening.

While regarded as historic and celebratory occasions, not all US presidential inaugurations have passed off as the solemn state event desired, as Robert Hume describes.

GAA presidential candidate Frank Burke says improving the plight of vulnerable clubs in “fractured” rural Ireland is one of his chief policy priorities.

“Time and tide wait for no man…” wrote Robert Frost, the American poet, “… but time always stands still for a woman of 30.”

Eibhlís Carcione lives in Cork city, and will be reading at the at the Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival this weekend in the Kino. She won Duais Fhoras na Gaeilge in 2012. 

Kilkenny’s Cillian Buckley has frustrated Galway hurling fans by claiming they can’t expect to play any home games in the Leinster championship.

Brian Cody will mark 19 years in charge of Kilkenny’s senior hurling team after he was confirmed as manager for 2017 following a meeting of the county board in Nowlan Park last night.

The lapidary line of the tubercular John Keats is almost a cliché — “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” writes Damien Enright.

Kerry’s David Moran has been named the 2015 Munster GAA footballer of the year.

Tipperary’s John O’Dwyer has been named the 2015 Munster GAA hurler of the year. The 24-year old will be honoured at the provincial council’s annual awards gala dinner in Dromoland Castle this Saturday.

Mismatches have been held up as the reason behind the decision to remove the third level teams from next month’s pre-season competitions in Munster.

Fíann Ó Nualláin looks at the contemplative pleasure of working outside at this time of year.

Following today’s announcement of Cork Airport’s first transatlantic flights to the US with Norwegian Air, here are ten great things you can do in Boston.

Just beyond the breaking surf at the White Strand on the Great Blasket island, seals were standing up in the water to get a better look at us humans. 

The Munster Council will easily break the €4m mark in gate receipts as they expect attendance figures to be up by at least 20% on the 2014 figures.

GAA chiefs are counting down to one of the most lucrative weekends of the season with 10 major games down for decision and close to 200,000 expected through the turnstiles.

Thousands of hurling fans queued for hours in Thurles last evening for the removal of Tipperary hurling great Jimmy Doyle, who passed away suddenly on Monday, aged 76.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood/... I took the one less traveled by/And that has made all the difference.

Students who focused on John Montague and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin should have been pleased to see both feature on yesterday’s Leaving Certificate higher and ordinary level English exams.

Limerick GAA chiefs hope their Centre of Excellence in Rathkeale will host National League games in the near future.

In the real world Steve Cavanagh is a Belfast lawyer who explained to Declan Burke how an exceptional advocate can convince a jury black is actually white.

When you ask an Irish person about poetry, the majority suffer an acute case of Leaving Cert flashbacks — nightmarish visions of Sylvia Plath and Robert Frost float before their eyes.

Déise chairman Paddy Joe Ryan says the €500,000 allocated by Munster Council secures the day-to-day running of Waterford GAA. 

Waterford have claimed their first McGrath Cup title in 34 years, with goals from Maurice O’Gorman, Gavin Nugent and Joey Veale helping them to only their second ever title, at Fraher Field tonight.

Three of the four provincial chairmen have backed the GAA calendar year workgroup’s call to provide All-Ireland semi-finalists with byes in the irrespective code’s provincial club championships.

The Munster Council announced last night they are giving Cork GAA €3.75m toward the €70m reconstruction of Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

The Cork County Board has received a further €3.75 million towards the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh as the Munster Council last night became the latest donors to the stadium’s reconstruction.

IT kicked off with the germ of an idea from Kieran Donaghy — a big American sports fan — who wanted a visible keepsake of an All-Ireland winning season with Kerry he’ll never forget.

All-Ireland winning Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice has been named as the Munster Council’s Manager of the Year.

Cork star, Jennifer O’Leary has been announced as the winner of the Camogie Award for the 2014 Bord Gáis Energy Munster GAA Awards.

Legendary All-Ireland winning manager Ger Loughnane has backed Clare to overtake Kilkenny as hurling’s most dominant team claiming that the sport’s "big ogre is beginning to lose his sense of danger."