There is some debate over the ferocity of the challenge though the end result of a red card for Dr Crokes’ Danny Cooper was the upshot.

TG4 will broadcast county finals from the homes of the Sam Maguire and Liam MacCarthy Cups this weekend.

Thomas Davis and Ballyboden St Enda’s will contest this year’s Dublin Senior Football Championship final, after semi-final wins over Kilmacud Crokes and St Jude’s, respectively, at Parnell Park on Saturday evening.

Holders Kilmacud Crokes kept alive their ambitions of back-to-back Dublin SFC titles when accounting for 14-man Clontarf by 0-16 to 0-8 in their quarter-final at Parnell Park yesterday.

There's been a recent history of hospitality at The Cove, by the Beacon road in West Cork’s Baltimore, exemplified by this home/B&B called the Slipway – but hospitality wasn’t always the flavour of the day.

Defending champions Kilmacud Crokes began their Dublin SFC campaign on a positive note when defeating Ballymun Kickhams by 2-13 to 0-14 at Parnell Park on Saturday night.

Roscommon, the only senior football team yet to confirm a manager for 2019, are hoping to recruit a successor to Kevin McStay from outside the county.

Zak Moradi may have been the first Iranian Kurd to play in Croke Park but the Leitrim hurler is convinced that he won’t be the last.

An exhibition of free-taking from Brian Turnbull ended Cork’s 10-year wait for an All-Ireland minor final appearance, writes Eoghan Cormican.

Castleknock, St Brigid’s and Ballymun Kickhams all advanced to the quarter-finals of the Dublin Senior Football Championship with wins over St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh, Thomas Davis and St Mary’s Saggart, respectively, on Saturday.

David ‘Dotsy’ O’Callaghan has confirmed his return to the Dublin senior hurling panel after a serious back injury threatened to end his inter-county career.

The Carolina Panthers bounced back to winning ways with a 30-20 NFL victory over the Arizona Cardinals at the Bank of America Stadium.

Architects working in the public sector have been hailed after civic schemes scooped the top three awards in the popular vote section of Ireland’s architecture Oscars.

Professional golfer Phil Mickelson is being sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over claims he profited from an insider trading scheme.

Thomas Davis knows all about pain and toughness.

Kildare 3-16 Dublin 3-13: A devastating scoring blitz before half-time paved the way for Kildare’s victory over Paddy Christie’s Dublin in yesterday’s Electric Ireland Leinster minor football semi-final at Croke Park.

Plans are advancing to provide free wifi to the first of Cork county’s large provincial towns.

Some of the arguments put in your editorial (March 9) advocating an EU army echo those of the era of European colonizations of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The President hailed the legacy of patriot Thomas Davis and his vision of a fairer Ireland yesterday as he unveiled a statue to honour his bicentenary.

Remembering Thomas Davis

An Post has issued a stamp honouring the life of revolutionary writer and Young Ireland leader Thomas Davis to mark the bicentenary of his birth. 

It is entirely appropriate that the An Post has issued a stamp to mark the bicentenary of the birth of writer and revolutionary Thomas Davis.

Eoin English looks at the skilled conservation work now underway to restore the National Monument on Grand Parade ahead of the Easter Rising commemorations planned for Cork in 2016

To prove he is good enough to play inter-county football, twice a week Shane McGrath makes the two-and-a-half-hour journey from Dublin, where he was born and where he has played his club football all his life, to Clare, the county of his parents.

One of Cork’s largest towns is set to become a test location for the future shaping of Ireland’s regional towns.

Ten years ago, Rena Buckley was the youngest starter in Cork’s first Division 1 National League final, aged just 17.

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Davis (1814-1845), UCC Emeritus Professor John A Murphy , assessed the patriot’s significance in a lecture on March 11, 2014 in Mallow, Davis’s birthplace. Here is the full text of his address.

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We called him The Dean because he was our leader on many a journey along the roads of rural Ireland and in the corridors of power in Dublin and Brussels.

The first person to introduce John Fitzgerald Kennedy in public as “the next President of the United States” was from Kanturk, Co Cork.

Recalling the 1745 victory on Fontenoy

Jack Yeats’ pen and ink drawing The Sack of Baltimore dating from 1890/91 at Whyte’s Irish art sale at the RDS next Monday (May 27).

If you know the White family in Booterstown, Dublin, you had better watch your Ps and Qs because they have connections to the British royal family.

We could grow to like these footballers turned pundits turned managers.

Genealogists have discovered a distant “rags-to-riches” Irish cousin of Britain’s Prince William on a 19th century document dedicated to an English lord.

Sligo lead the way in Division 3B of the Allianz Hurling League following a three-goal win over Warwickshire on Saturday, while Leitrim and Longford shared the spoils in Ballinamore this afternoon.

A former district court judge serving a prison sentence for deception will be sentenced in March after pleading guilty to a further charge of false accounting.

Bryan Sheehan, Anthony Maher and Aidan O’Mahony make their first starts of the year for Kerry in tomorrow’s McGrath Cup semi-final against Limerick at Fitzgerald Stadium.

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The Dublin footballers and hurlers both made winning starts to the 2013 campaign at the annual Dubs Stars games at the St. Peregrines GAA club in Blanchardstown this afternoon.