Tommy Walsh is in two minds about the decision to make the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship a six-team competition next season.

SO, it was Man United against lower league opposition in the Cup, and it was a six-goal winning margin to boot but, really, it was the mud what done it.

The owners of a family business once rooted in Cork’s historic financial heart — until the property and housing boom pushed them to the suburbs — have all but returned to their spiritual home, opening the way for a tenant to take over their lease in Bessboro.

Marjorie Brennan talks us through her highlights for 2019.

The second hardest thing for an All Blacks side is to accept they have been dumped out of a World Cup.

It's been hailed as the best All Blacks performance since the last World Cup. Some are saying it was as close to perfection as you can come in the game of rugby.

Hammer the hammer.

Hansen was in typically mischievous mood when he set the scene on Monday.

Jack Carty was on holiday in Spain two years ago when Joey Carbery injured some ligaments in Ireland’s defeat of the USA in New Jersey.

They were patting down sweat-filled brows around RTÉ’s control bunker yesterday as Montrose battled technical glitches at the start of Hugh Cahill and Donal Lenihan’s television commentary from Yokohama.

The 88th Ploughing Championships have broken all attendance records.

In the Father Ted episode where a bomb was planted on Dougal’s milk float, two fellow priests and a tense Ted were involved in a major planning session.

Ted Baker has dumped Debenhams for high street rival Next as its fashion partner for selling its children’s range of clothing and accessories.

The President and the Taoiseach have paid tribute to one of the country’s favourite all-round entertainers, Brendan Grace, who has died at the age of 68 after a short illness.

Ireland lost two significant, well-respected figures this week — albeit voices from very different ends of the social milieu. Both men died after short illnesses.

He's had his fun, and that's all that matters.

The comedian and singer Brendan Grace has passed away, aged 68.

The burning to the ground of Ted a giant teddy built each year with help from the local farming community in north Kerry to direct children to an enchanted fairy festival is being investigated by gardaí.

It comes as a joy - and even a little bit of a relief - when Pauline McLynn sits down for our interview and orders a proper pot of Irish breakfast tea.

How do you know when it’s over? In sport, every sportsperson has to keep trying to improve. Someone sets a standard - for me that was AP McCoy - and that was the level you had to try to achieve. When he retired, all of a sudden you realise you had to try to stay ahead of the younger jockeys coming up behind you.

Ruby Walsh’s sister Katie reflects on the "unbelievable highs and lows" of her brother’s racing career.

It can’t have just been me who appreciated Lionel Messi that little bit more on Wednesday evening.

Zac Efron portrays Ted Bundy, one of the most prolific serial killers of all time, in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.

Public policy yesterday, public policy today. The more things change, the more they sometimes stay the same.

Cathal Toal beat Martin Coppinger in the last shot of a thrilling Joe McVeigh Cup final at Keady, county Armagh yesterday.

It’s one of the most famous lines from Father Ted: the money was just resting in my account. But at least Father Ted knew how many accounts he had.

Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on ...

Line of Duty has been the best cop show of recent years, and fans are eagerly anticipating the return of AC-12 on Sunday, writes Georgia Humphreys

Irish mammies have been portrayed on screens as domestic masters or martyrs for too long. Times have changed, writes Ed Power.

If Channel 4 ever decides to finance a remake of Father Ted, the producers might consider moving the location from Craggy Island to Westminster. Ted could do Theresa May in drag while Dougal would make a fine Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Keanu Reeves and former co-star Alex Winter are teaming up once again to film Bill & Ted Face the Music.

He was best known for his roles as Georgie Burgess in The Snapper and the milkman Pat Mustard in Father Ted.

Shares in clothing retailer Ted Baker surged following the resignation of controversial founder and chief executive Ray Kelvin.

Catherine Mahon- Buckley is marking her 25th year as the director of the Everyman’s panto, writes Marjorie Brennan.

I’m sure it’s not an underrated experience, but just in case it is, let me rate it so highly, that its average rating goes well above four stars on Amazon.

Rob Gillies reports from Montreal on the reverberations Canada’s decision to legalise could have internationally.

Sometimes life just imitates art. The art was the Tea Master episode of Father Ted when Ted gives Mrs Doyle an automated tea-maker.

It isn’t very often that the frenetic chatter of the Irish Examiner’s newsroom dies to a whisper.

The sale of the Irish Examiner to The Irish Times as part of a package of media interests will be good for jobs, the newspaper brands and for the industry in general, both parties to the deal have said.

“Bye, ball! I'll never forget the good times!”

Where would our top chefs eat if they had the pick of world’s restaurants? And who would they dine with? Four of the biggest names in Irish food reveal their dream 24 hours of dining to Joe McNamee.