In the large room upstairs in Galway football’s training centre in Loughgeorge, there used to be a plaque of Leonardo Da Vinci’s

Global medical software company Vitalograph is announcing 50 new jobs as part of a significant expansion in County Clare.

What’s it like to play in a Galway-Mayo championship match? I can only speak from a Galway point of view and more specifically my experiences of playing against the auld enemy. It’s the only game of the year you just can’t afford to lose, writes John Divilly.

St Flannan’s College 4-9 Mercy Mounthawk 2-12: A three-goal St Flannan’s, College, Ennis salvo in the opening 10 minutes proved decisive as they had to withstand a tremendous second-half comeback from Mercy Mounthawk, Tralee to hang on for a three-point win, in this gripping Corn Ui Mhuiri quarter-final at Rathkeale.

Valerie O’Connor takes cares of the New Year resolutions in one blitz. 

Clonlara 3-11

Thousands of nurses and nursing graduates will not return to this country unless the profession is respected and properly rewarded.

Nurses are being forced into making mistakes because of HSE cuts, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has claimed.

Former Galway manager Liam Sammon (pictured) is to be part of an extended backroom team to assist Alan Mulholland next year.

Stephen Cluxton is one of the most recognisable footballers in Ireland but also the most private

Spanish Point gave Munster golf another reason to cheer at the AIG All-Ireland Cups & Shields National finals when they lifted the Pierce Purcell Shield at Royal Tara Golf Club.

Limerick 2-16 Clare 2-13

Kilmurry-Ibrickane 0-10 St Joseph’s Doora Barefield 0-04

Family-run Wild Irish Sea Veg is tapping into consumers’ growing taste for seaweed and after bagging a deal with a NY deli and aiming to grow sales to Britain and beyond, there’s no limit to the company’s ambitions, writes Trish Dromey

FORMER Galway midfielder Brian Talty has blasted Dublin secretary John Costello’s proposal that is seeking to force players who switch to clubs in the capital to also change their inter-county allegiances.

CAITRIONA JENNINGS, Sportsworld Running Club, Terenure, yesterday led home a field of over 40,000 in the Flora Women’s Mini-Marathon in Dublin.

FORMER Galway great and selector Ja Fallon has admitted the county’s senior footballers are in crisis — but insists all is not lost for the Tribesmen if they lose their Allianz Division One status.

LIAM SHEEDY has named an unchanged side for this Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling final against Killkenny – and yet one that differs considerably to the corresponding fixture 12 months ago.

St. Gall's 0-13 Kilmurry-Ibrickane 1-5

WHEN Kilmurry-Ibrickane chairman Gerald Talty began preparing the club’s blueprint for the 2008 season, he felt there was a need to head in a new direction.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE captain Enda Coughlan believes his side’s recent practice in playing against 14 men was instrumental in achieving victory in Sunday’s bad-tempered All-Ireland Club SFC final against Portlaoise.

Kerins O'Rahillys (Kerry) 0-6 Kilmurry Ibrickane (Clare) 0-7

SEAMUS MCENANEY’S call to play the postponed Dublin-Monaghan game at Croke Park next weekend, seems destined to fall on deaf ears with HQ set to close down for work on the pitch after today’s club final.

Despite the lack of a championship match since their Leinster final win over Laois three weeks ago, Dublin selector Brian Talty believes his side are in the right frame of mind as they head into Saturday's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Derry.

YOU wouldn’t blame Brian Talty if he ever suffered from an identity crisis.

Brendan O’Brien

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE nestles in the very heart of football-mad west Clare, a parish like so many others, with life revolving around the local GAA field.

DUBLIN manager Tommy Lyons offered his resignation to the County Board following their Leinster SFC defeat to Westmeath at Croke Park.

Brian Talty has turned down the offer to succeed Mick O'Dwyer as Kildare senior football manager.

Brian Talty and Padriag Nolan have emerged as frontrunners to take over from Mick O'Dwyer as Kildare football boss.

CARLOW have appointed former Kildare player Mick Condon as manager of their intercounty senior football side.