Parades in Boston, Seattle, and LA have been cancelled, meaning one of the biggest revenue generating days for bars will be curtailed, write Matthew Townsend and Angelica LaVito

"It's all about housing," says Padraig O' Sullivan, who retained his seat in Cork north central last month.

It was sweet redemption for the Waterford side after losing last year’s decider by a point.

Goals from Bernard Allen and Cathal Mangan helped Offaly snatch victory from their Leitrim hosts in Carrick-on-Shannon.

Offaly withheld a tremendous fightback from 13-man Louth to pick up their first Division 3 win of the season in a textbook game of two halves at the Gaelic Grounds in Drogheda.

Referee Siohhan Coyle had to take the players off the pitch in the middle of a second-half hail storm.

Offaly and Longford continued their fierce rivalry of recent years with their latest instalment serving up a pulsating and entertaining draw in Tullamore.

Longford boss Padraic Davis has challenged those who question the need for pre-season competitions in an already crowded GAA calendar.

Offaly set up an O’Byrne Cup final clash with Longford next weekend, their victory sealed by two late points from substitute Cian Farrell.

The Mike Quirke era of Laois football began with a defeat in the opening round of the O’Byrne Cup against neighbours Offaly on Saturday.

“Well I chaired [the committee] and I don’t accept that narrative whatsoever,” said Sullivan, in response to CPA criticism of the taskforce.

Far be it from David Clifford to tell how Peter Keane who to pick in his Kerry panel but he reckons his brother Paudie has done enough to earn a call-up.

There’s not likely to be a shortage of viewers for this three-bed detached house at 85 Kilbrody in the always-popular Mount Oval development.

Gardaí believe that a man who died in June 2018, five years after he was shot, was a victim of mistaken identity.

Crimestoppers has launched an appeal for information about the murder of a man who was shot in the face in 2013.

If that famous Victorian musical pairing, Gilbert and Sullivan, were alive today, they would probably be tempted to put the Brexit shenanigans to music.

Róisín Leonard came up with the winning free for Galway as they booked their place in the TG4 All-Ireland Championship senior final for the first time since 2005 with victory over Mayo at Croke Park.

The rivalry has defined so much of this decade it shouldn’t be surprising that the players and their skills have done so too.

Mary Sullivan’s art has been heavily influenced by her life in West Cork, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

A father-of-three has been jailed for five years for the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old boy over 25 years ago after he made the child believe that he wanted a relationship with him.

TJ Sullivan, chairman of Drinagh Co-op, will succeed Peter Fleming as chairman of Carbery Group; while Paddy Ryan, chairman of Lisavaird Co-op, has been appointed vice-chair of the organisation.

Jamie Donaldson set his sights on an emotional return to Royal Portrush after claiming a share of the clubhouse lead on day one of the ASI Scottish Open.

Laois edged out neighbours Offaly in a highly entertaining Midlands derby to seal their place in Round 4 of the All-Ireland Qualifiers.

Kevin Egan When the qualifier draw is made this morning, it will be Offaly — the only remaining county in today’s draw that will play their league football outside the top two divisions next spring — that will be seen as the plum draw for most of the other seven.

The property supplement to a recent issue of the Irish Examiner contained a piece by Tommy Barker about the sale of Monkstown Castle House — ‘House of the week’ (June 8) — home of the late Charlie Hennessey and Abby Scott.

A man has been found guilty of attacking his then girlfriend by throwing her on the floor, beating her, and then pinning her to the bed in their flat before he then dropped her to work.

Coming to market, hot on the heels of a house right alongside on Cork's charming Ardfoyle Crescent in Ballintemple is a three-bed semi-d called Glenmore, and while dated, it's a charmer too, in its own right.

West Cork-based Drinagh Co-op increased its operating profit of €0.8m during 2018, with the creamery’s milk volumes up 6% versus 2017, its mill output up 30% and store sales up 10%.

At Lismore over the next few days, Una Hunt will help to revive pieces that had fallen out of fashion, writes Cathy Desmond.

GAA president John Horan has asked the newly formed fixtures review group to bring three proposals to Congress 2020 in a bid to resolve the Association’s calendar crisis.

There's hardly a row of homes in Cork city’s older southside suburbs with as much ‘kerb appeal’ as those on one side of Ardfoyle Crescent: even their entrance pillars set quite a tone of grandeur, in red brick and crowned with large terracotta globes.

The cause of death at autopsy was compression of the neck with heart disease and acute alcohol and diazepam intoxication as contributory factors.

Bryan McMahon saved Meath's blushes with a late goal to turn a potential disaster into a battling Leinster SFC win for the hosts in Navan.

Environmental specialists working on the Bandon River flood relief project in the West Cork town have said they raised concerns with the company who subcontracted them about the porous nature of a haul road the night before it suddenly drained, leading to stricken fish become trapped.

Sinead Aherne recorded an outstanding haul of 3-3 at the DCU Sportsgrounds to guide Dublin towards an emphatic victory over Monaghan in Division 1 of the Lidl National Football League.

Desmond Duffy has been found not guilty of the murder of Desmond Sullivan at the home they shared in Somerville Park, Rathmines, Dublin 6 on May 23, 2016.

Cloughduv put the county final disappointments 2009, 2010 and 2015 behind them today to be crowned Cork JAH champions after a close battle with Russell Rovers at Páirc Uí Rinn.

The same evening that both Kerry’s involvement in the 2018 championship and Eamonn Fitmaurice’s tenure as manager ended, the last two players to leave the home dressing room in the bowels of Fitzgerald Stadium were Kieran Donaghy and Darran O’Sullivan, writes Kieran Shannon.

I can only imagine what a bittersweet weekend it must have been for Frances Fitzgerald and Nóirín O’Sullivan.

Journalist Gemma O’Doherty has failed to secure the required number of county councils to contest the presidential race.

As the Leeside venue gets ready for a concert performance of The Mikado, Cathy Desmond gives the lowdown on the ever-popular operetta.

The scoreline does not reflect the magnificent efforts of Tipperary in the first half but it does showcase once more the ability of All-Ireland senior camogie champions Cork to produce a performance in a pressure situation.

"If you don’t win, you’re not remembered" — Andrew O’Shaughnessy

Perhaps the oddest bit of GAA friction in 2018 arose when the Galway minor football manager got irked by dual player issues, writes PM O’Sullivan