It’s All-Ireland camogie finals weekend and despite some critical commentary on the game (or the rules) over the past year, there is a good buzz about Sunday, generated from an exciting championship with plenty of positive talking points.

While asthma death rates are falling in many developed countries, they appear to be rising here — now new research highlights the huge public health burden of managing the chronic disease in Ireland.

While asthma death rates are falling in many developed countries, they appear to be rising here - now new research highlights the huge public health burden of managing the chronic disease in Ireland.

Helen O’Callaghan hears about the overuse of reliever inhalers.

According to Met Éireann, the Easter bank holiday weekend could see temperature reach highs of 22-23 degrees.

Chloe Foxe is taking time out from completing a college assignment to chat. The conversation flows, the 21-year-old at ease with discussing sport and life.

I’ve been known to hit “snooze” on the alarm. Generally, though, I’m on the iphone, browsing emails, so my head’s in work before I’m out of bed.

Cork camogie goalkeeper Aoife Murray is undecided about whether or not she will extend her inter-county career into a 17th season.

Board composition has been a topic of conversation in the commercial world for some time. 

All-Ireland champions Kilkenny and finalists Cork dominate the Camogie All-Stars 2016 shortlist.

ACTRESS and singer, Jacinta Whyte, says there is not enough work in Ireland for young people to build a career in musical theatre. 

The bid to restore sport’s savaged funding levels kicked-off yesterday with a call for the Government to increase their commitment to the sector by €4.4m in the next two years.

Most kids have an idea about what they’d like to be when they grow up and like most, my career plans reflected my interests as a child.

The Federation of Irish Sport has called on sporting organisations to seek private sector investment in the wake of continued cuts to Government funding.

We do like a gripe, us Irish.

A proposed ban on alcohol sponsorship will have a “detrimental effect” on Irish sport, an umbrella organisation has told an Oireachtas committee.

You know times are tough when bad news is given a Hollywood makeover and presented as good news simply because it wasn’t quite as horrific as first feared.

FOR more years than she cares to remember Sonia O’Sullivan has been the member of an exclusive club.

James O’Reilly and his pals on the Ballincollig junior B football team had an idea.

THE Government has announced there is no money available for the long-mooted indoor training arena and track at the National Sports Campus in west Dublin, and is instead seeking help from the state’s wealthier citizens.

LAST Thursday, some of the most powerful men in all of Irish sport met in Leinster House.

HIS lack of sporting credentials were viewed with dismay when he took office but Irish sports officials are hoping that may work in their favour this week as they meet with Sports Minister Leo Varadkar, for the first time.

A SCINTILLATING second-half performance helped Star of the Sea pull away from St Brendan’s and claim the GF4 Allianz Sciath na Scol title at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

JIM AUGHNEY, the man responsible for founding and developing the Dublin Marathon and Race Series, was one of 11 volunteers honoured for their outstanding contribution to sports at a ceremony at the Aviva Stadium yesterday.

EVENTS in Cardiff, Croke Park and Cheltenham may be uppermost in most minds this month but Irish sport claimed its most important victory of the year yesterday when it was retained at the cabinet table by the new Government.

THE Federation of Irish Sports (FIS) and Irish Sports Council (ISC) are holding out hope Taoiseach-in-waiting Enda Kenny will keep sport at the cabinet table when, as expected, he names his ministers later today.

AS examples of naked political opportunism go, few can match Charlie Haughey’s decision to call for the government’s private jet 24 years ago and make a dramatic dash for Paris.

IN a hare-footed flesh-pressing exercise around a Cork shopping mall, interrupted briefly by an alarm bell, Enda Kenny had his own Winona moment.

ALL the political parties scrambling to be part of the next government are being asked to guarantee that a percentage of National Lottery funding will be set aside for the use of the Irish Sports Council (ISC).

THE FAI last night confirmed plans to reduce ticket prices for international matches along with sweeping cost cutting measures including pay cuts and redundancies.

MORE than half of Irish children are couch potatoes and do not play any sport, according to a study.

THE majority of the country’s sporting fraternity was breathing a sigh of relief last night after escaping the worst of the budget’s cuts.

THE mothballed National Sports Campus in Abbotstown is set for a badly-needed boost with news that up to €40million is being earmarked for the development in west Dublin.

IRELAND’S top Olympic official has warned that some of the country’s elite athletes could be forced to retire before the London Games in 2012 if government funding continues to be cut.

SEVENTY Irish sporting bodies — including the GAA, FAI and IRFU — have come together to demand that the government does not impose any further cuts on the Irish Sports Council.

FOR the girls of St Patrick’s College, Home Economics brought day one of Leaving Certificate 2009 to a happy close.

A NEWLY-ESTABLISHED dispute resolution service for Irish sport believes controversial cases don’t have to end in the courts, costing prohibitive sums of money.

THE days of sports disputes being settled in the country’s courts could well be at an end, with the establishment of an independent and specialised dispute resolution authority.

Galway 4-13 Kerry 2-10

KERRY have set up a Munster title showdown with arch-rivals Cork in the TG4 Ladies Football Championship following an extra-time victory over Waterford in Saturday’s semi-final at Dungarvan, 5-8 to 3-9.

ALL-IRELAND Ladies Football champions Galway started the year brightly with a six points win over Monaghan (2-14 to 0-14) on the opening weekend of the Suzuki National Football League.