Their twin talents have been signposted for a decade, and on the eve of their LPGA debut tomorrow, the Maguire sisters from Cavan have inked a pair of lucrative sponsorship agreements which provide stability for them as they tee off highly anticipated pro careers.

The Cork senior hurling championship goes up a notch this weekend, with a raft of games down for decision today and tomorrow.

Marketing consultancy paid ex-CEO €65,000 but he threatened customer disclosure unless paid €135,000

Na Piarsaigh duo Kevin Downes and Shane Dowling proved their worth to Limerick with 1-8 between them as the Shannonsiders secured a first Allianz hurling league semi-final place in a decade.

Back-to-back victories over Cork and Galway has challenged the ‘inconsistency’ tag routinely associated with the Dublin hurlers, according to manager Ger Cunningham.

A few months before Bryan Cullen would become the first Dublin man in 16 years to lift Sam Maguire, the then director of football operations at Chelsea, Mike Forde, spoke at a conference in Liverpool about a bit of a continuing professional development tour he took in on Stateside.

While reflecting on Tuesday’s first round Sigerson Cup rout of Cork IT, Billy Morgan revealed the UCC management had spent several hours the night previous deliberating over a starting XV.

All-Ireland Sevens: Hosts Kilmacud Crokes captured their first One Direct All-Ireland Senior Hurling Sevens title at Glenalbyn on Saturday, recording a 6-21 to 7-5 win over Portroe of Tipperary in the decider.

Kilmacud Crokes claimed the One Direct All-Ireland Senior Sevens Hurling title for the first time at Glenalbyn this evening.

Former Cork selector Ger Cunningham, who left Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s backroom team at the end of last season, has been named the new manager of UCC’s Fitzgibbon Cup team.

Dublin IT 1-14 Waterford IT 1-21 (aet)

Galway 0-28 Dublin 1-12

Dublin IT 0-11 DCU 0-7

DIT 1-15 NUI Galway 0-17

The opening event at the new home of Cork cross-country at Riverstick was marked with an absorbing men’s senior race which saw East Cork regain the title from holders Leevale for their 10th win in 12 years.

Paul Ryan struck 2-6 as Ballyboden St Enda’s overcame county champions Kilmacud Crokes by 3-14 to 2-13 in their Dublin SHC quarter-final at O’Toole Park yesterday afternoon.

Unstoppable Peyton Manning continued his electric start to the NFL season by throwing four touchdown passes as the Denver Broncos moved to 4-0 with a 52-20 crushing of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Cork 5-14 Tipperary 0-24

David Treacy will line out at top of the left of Dublin when they take on Tipperary in tomorrow's Allianz Hurling League semi-final at Semple Stadium (throw-in 2pm).

Wexford 0-15 Dublin 3-19, Wexford Park

Sergiu Ciobanu (Clonliffe Harriers) coasted to victory in the 36th running of the Ballycotton 10 mile road race.

GMIT, Derry, DCU, Wicklow, Armagh and Louth got their Bord na Móna Kehoe Cup campaigns off to a winning start this afternoon.

They may have waited all of a decade to reclaim the Cork county senior cross-country crown from East Cork, but Leevale did it in style yesterday at Carrignavar and for good measure, the city club also won the women’s title along with providing the winners of the two individual races.

Oulart-The Ballagh (Wexford) 1-13 Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin) 1-12

The novel southside derby in today’s Dublin SHC final ended in a 2-10 to 0-9 victory for Kilmacud Crokes over Cuala at Parnell Park.

The resignation of junior health minister Róisín Shortall is the latest in a long list of high-profile figures to quit their posts in the health service since James Reilly took office in Mar 2011.

Lucan Sarsfields, Cuala, Crumlin and Kilmacud Crokes all advanced to the last four of the Dublin SHC over the weekend.

Laois ousted last years beaten All-Ireland finalists Dublin, while Wexford also advanced to a Leinster semi-final berth.

CATHAL Magee is a man with rather a lot on his mind.

DOCTORS at one of the country’s largest hospitals are costing the taxpayer millions of euro by failing to fill out private patient paperwork, which is then wrongly written off as “bad debt”.

OVER years when health services were creaking, a fund controlled by a SIPTU official funded lavish overseas junkets for senior trade union officials and public servants, the Dáil public spending watchdog heard yesterday.

HAVING spent time in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital recently, including 24 hours in A&E, and having experienced first hand the atrocious conditions in which nurses and staff are forced to work, I wish to say that I fully support them in their efforts to have the recruitment embargo rescinded and beds freed up.

THE HSE has been criticised for hiring a private investigator to probe breach of confidentiality allegations against a staff member.

THE HSE’s head of human resources has finally admitted the controversial recruitment embargo is failing to save money because of the costs involved in filling chronic staffing gaps caused by the policy.