It is not an uncommon scenario; the rugby man, with all his connections and influence, sending the football man, with his talents, away from the office disappointed.

St Francis Coll, Rochestown 1-6 Clonakilty CC 0-7: Conor Russell’s goal was the key score as last year’s defeated finalists St Francis College, Rochestown advanced to the Corn Uí Mhuirí semi-finals with victory over Clonakilty CC at Newcestown yesterday.

TV3 have snatched Six Nations rights from 2018-21. Can Rugby Country sustain a coup of this magnitude? Here are some of the things we’ll miss.

Carrigaline 0-12 St Michael’s 0-11: At times, it must have seemed that senior football would remain an elusive aspiration for Carrigaline.

Carrigaline will play senior football for the first time in 2016 after they edged St Michael’s in the Cork Premier IFC final in Páirc Uí Rinn on Sunday.

Carrigaline 2-12 Éire Óg 0-16: A goal by former inter-county star Nicholas Murphy a minute into injury-time gave Carrigaline the unlikeliest of victories over Éire Óg in this PIFC semi-final replay at Brinny on Saturday.

Carrigaline 1-10 St Vincent’s 0-8: For the first 17 minutes of Saturday’s Premier IFC quarter-final, referee Michael Collins wasn’t even tempted to blow his whistle for a foul.

Carrigaline 0-9  Castletownbere 0-7: Both teams deserve credit for producing a hugely competitive game in miserable conditions in the Cork PIFC in Castletown Kenneigh on Saturday evening, with a more potent Carrigaline the deserving winners.

Comedian Brendan O’Carroll, who was recently named ‘philanthropist of the year,’ said that “schooling should be free”. 

St Francis Rochestown 1-9 Coláiste na Sceilge 2-4

The best 40 minutes rugby we have seen in years upon years

Not a move endorsed by Julie Andrews, never mind rehearsed on the training field under the watchful eye of Joe Schmidt, but let’s start at the very end, writes Enda McEvoy. 

On the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, Ryle Dwyer reflects on the conflict in which his father was killed

An afternoon of light, sweetness and the return of the redhead from Limerick, with the latter occurrence contributing substantially to the former.

Hopes, plans, dreams — all scaled back yesterday at the Aviva.

One of the most sage pieces of advice offered to RTÉ head of sport Ryle Nugent was that if he survived the first 10 years without people liking or disliking his rugby commentary, he might just make it. On the eve of his 15th season behind the mic, he evidently succeeded.

HEROISM has come back to the earth,” Pádraic Pearse wrote in December 1915.

MY recent performance on the Vincent Browne radio show discussion on the Child Abuse Commission has evidently been causing Ryle Dwyer sleepless nights. He has used a second column (Irish Examiner, January 28) to bash me.

TODAY marks the 60th anniversary of a riot in Dublin, started by the one and only Charles J Haughey and a fellow student at University College, Dublin, the future senior counsel, Seamus Sorohan.

APART from the ‘tadhg a dhá thaobh’ stance of Ryle Dwyer in his column on a ‘week of apologies’ (Irish Examiner, February 12), he cannot pass up any chance to denigrate the men and women who fought and died for Irish independence.

YOUR columnist Ryle Dwyer, in recalling the shooting of two RIC men at Soloheadbeg in 1919 (Irish Examiner, December 12), hints at revisionist line of thinking whereby the RIC are elevated almost to the status of martyrs while the IRA are villains.

RYLE DWYER appears to be rather angry at the Government because they had a meeting with Cardinal Desmond Connell (Irish Examiner, Nov 1).

RYLE DWYER’s slip is showing.

RYLE DWYER writes on the horror of the 1918-20 pandemic which the propaganda says was caused

LIKE George Galloway, we can salute the “courage, strength and indefatigability” of our favourite tyrant without handing them our first-born for immolation.

MORE than 20 people have died in accidents on or near Slane Bridge in Co Meath over the past 40 years and residents are demanding the provision of a bypass road.