Scrum-half Nick Frisby has given the game away.

There was late drama at today's EirGrid All-Ireland U21 football semi-final between Mayo and Dublin at O’Connor Park in Tullamore.

Senior panellist Con O'Callaghan starred again for Dublin with 1-7 but Cillian O'Shea was the game breaker in Navan with a vital late goal to secure a three-in-a-row of EirGrid Leinster U-21 football titles.

They’re favourites for a three-in-a-row of EirGrid Leinster U-21 football titles, and many people’s All-Ireland fancies, but Eoin Murchan says the reality for new look Dublin is 2016 is a ‘clean slate’.

In our weekly 'Getting to know you' slot, Clare hurler Brendan Bugler talks Netflix, bad movies, rule changes and one teammate's use of Tinder.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has urged people to join her in voting yes in the upcoming same sex marriage referendum.

Over €1m in backpay will be paid by the Department of Education to up to 2,000 teachers over the next week — almost two years after revised salaries were agreed.

The Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) is calling for the repeal of an equality law provision allowing schools to fire, or not hire, people whose sexual orientation or family status is not in line with their religious ethos.

The first time I ran into Henry Shefflin was in 1999. Clare played Kilkenny in a challenge in Johnstown and this young fella arrived onto my patch as a second-half sub.

Teachers are being drafted in to fill staff shortages in the National Educational Psychological Service that are leaving pupils with disabilities unable to get access to extra help in schools.

Tony McGahan says Paul O’Connell is always striving to improve his own game and his team-mates.

With the great and wise of the GAA congregating next Saturday in Cavan, a recent conversation among a gathering of other minds down here in Clare is worth sharing, writes Kieran Shannon.

Two All-Ireland titles and multiple All Star awards have secured Eoin Kelly’s place in Tipperary hurling folklore. Now he is slowly growing accustomed to life as a former inter-county hurler, but the memories of the glory days in blue and gold are as fresh as ever.

In the face of serious concerns about the future of primary schools in south Kerry — where half the schools are set to lose a teacher — a public meeting on the issue has been attended by around 500 people in Caherciveen.

Struggling teachers are being helped out with a €20,000 gift left by a late Irish-American priest whose family got the same kind of help of their later father’s union more than 80 years ago.

Wales’ excruciating agony against the southern hemisphere heavyweights continued in Cardiff as they suffered a 10th successive loss to 2015 World Cup pool opponents Australia.

Michael Cheika said the "real physical business" was about to begin for Australia, after they marked the start of their European tour with a dramatic 40-36 win over the Barbarians in his first game as Wallaby coach.

Barbarians 36 Australia 40

Michael Cheika has been appointed as the new Australia head coach.

World Teachers’ Day has just passed and to mark the occasion we, the leaders of all the teachers’ and lecturers’ unions in Ireland and Great Britain would like to pose three questions:

Five secondary school teachers last year received lump sums of between €150,000 and €200,000 in a pensions bonanza.

Half backs are playing - and thinking - very differently to their predecessors.

The Irish National Teachers Organisation is welcoming today's announcement of the second round of approvals under Schools Summer Works Scheme.

Primary school teachers have demanded a reduction in the number of pupils in Irish classrooms, which are the second largest in the EU.

Primary school teachers have called on the Government to suspend the final phase of the cuts to teaching numbers in smaller schools.

On the 90th anniversary of the infamous Army Mutiny, Ryle Dwyer highlights aspects that history has overlooked

Having been rejected once for being too small, Clare’s Podge Collins made one vow — if he wasn’t going to catch ball above lads’ heads, he wasn’t going to get pushed off it either. The season he doesn’t want to end takes another twist today with Cratloe in a Clare football final.

Ger Loughnane said of him: “There are men, then there are men, then there’s Sean McMahon.” The totemic Doora-Barefield defender retains that innate honesty that inspired a generation of Banner hurlers. Now he wants the new wave of stars in the county to write a fresh chapter for Clare hurling.

All-Ireland SFC winners Ray Silke, Brian Mullins, Jimmy Deenihan and Pat Spillane are amongst the stars set to be inducted into the University of Limerick’s Sports Hall of Fame later this month.

Talking to the men directly involved, there are a couple of common themes when it comes to the factors that have led to a renaissance at underage hurling in the counties of Clare and Limerick — and a reasonable amount of divergence.

A permanent home, that’s what nomadic Dublin senior hurler Liam Rushe would like this summer, a place he can call his own, preferably in the number six shirt.

It’s only mid-March, the third round of the league, but as Clare get ready to visit Cork in Páirc Uí Rinn this Saturday evening it’s a game that could have added significance for later in the year.

A senior INTO representative said yesterday it was “very regrettable that a public servant was assaulted during the course of his work”.

A 35-year-old Dublin man has been acquitted of murder by direction of the trial judge.

The subplot of two Clare legends patrolling the sidelines in this evening’s All-Ireland qualifier at Cusack Park has almost overshadowed the main event.

Former All-Ireland winning Clare captain and current Dublin hurling boss, Anthony Daly

HOW GOOD is Henry Shefflin? Where does he stand in the pantheon of the hurling greats? For a cross-section of opinions we asked nine players for their assessments of the man simply called King Henry.

A 34-year-old Dublin man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Sean McMahon in Tallaght nearly four years ago.

A man is due in court this morning charged in connection with the death of a man in Dublin.

SOUTH Roscommon man Eugene Fayne was elected president of the Golfing Union of Ireland at yesterday’s Annual General Meeting at Carton House, Co Kildare.