Emmet McDonnell has been given the green light for a second season as Offaly senior football manager.

Offaly 1-12 Kildare 0-19

It’s a long way from the cop on the bike to the electronic beat on the street — or maybe it’s just a shift in gear.

The Gardaí have been presented with two segways to patrol the capital.

Football managerial revolution — it’s been coming for quite some time now.

Emmet McDonnell from Westmeath has been appointed as Offaly's new senior football manager.

Last Saturday evening in Thurles was one of those rare occasions when Tipperary’s senior footballers carried the tag of favourites into a championship game.

Tom Coffey has offered to take charge of the Offaly senior football team for the next three seasons.

Tipperary 1-12 Offaly 0-10

Any theory which espouses the view that the less well off don’t stand a chance against the nation’s fat cats is always going to curry favour with a certain audience.

One week was all that separated the appointments of Tom Coffey in Offaly and Roy Hodgson by England in late April and both men have experienced just how difficult it is to play catch-up in two of the year’s major sporting tournaments.

They were very tentative early on, but once Kildare got going they had way too many gears for a committed but outgunned Offaly.

Kieran McGeeney has dismissed suggestions that Seanie Johnston’s transfer to Kildare is contrary to the GAA’s ethos, saying there’s “no need to wear black armbands”.

John Doyle's 13th Senior Football Championship campaign begins this Sunday in Portlaoise as Kildare face Offaly in the last of the Leinster SFC quarter-finals.

Four Championship newcomers are in the Offaly team to take on Kildare in Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final in Portlaoise (throw-in 4pm).

Declan Ryan will have attacking aces Eoin Kelly, Seamus Callanan and Patrick Maher back in his selection plans for Sunday week’s Munster SHC quarter-final against Limerick but the Tipperary manager remained tight-lipped as to whether returning star Lar Corbett will be in contention for the Semple Stadium clash.

Ciaran McManus will not be coming out of inter-county retirement to line out for the Offaly footballers this summer, according to new manager Tom Coffey.

Laois edged an entertaining battle against an Offaly side, minus Ciarán McManus and Niall McNamee at the opening of the new Mountmellick GAA Clubhouse by GAA President Liam O’Neill last night.

One of the GAA’s chief selling points in this heavily-marketed age is that its stars live amongst us.

Offaly's interim football manager Tom Coffey is piecing together his panel ahead of their crunch Leinster SFC clash with Kildare on June 17.

Brian Connor, one of Offaly's best players during their recent Allianz Football League campaign, has decided to head to Chicago for the summer.

Former Offaly star Roy Malone says the county team will force all teams back to the drawing board if they manage to beat Kildare in their Leinster SFC quarter-final.

Offaly County Board have appointed Tom Coffey as senior football interim manager.

Offaly GAA have appointed Tom Coffey as the interim manager of their senior football panel for the 2012 Championship.

FORMER hurler of the year Eoin Larkin has been nominated by James Stephens as the next Kilkenny captain.

Don’t count against the riots in England spreading to Ireland, writes Noel Baker.

TOMÁS Ó FLATHARTA’S selector Martin McNamara has slammed the decision to sack the Kerry native, saying it went against the wishes of the players.

I WENT to a film premiere last year.

Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin) 0-15 Rhode (Offaly) 1-7, Portlaoise

The cost of Ireland’s cold snap could cost businesses millions of euro, it was claimed today.

SEPTEMBER has brought a bonus for organic farmers who took a late cut of hay.

Taxi drivers tonight apologised for blocking off part of central Dublin for almost two days in a protest over regulation of the industry.

LOCAL political, business and drug groups yesterday welcomed a major Garda operation targeting drug dealers in Dublin city centre.

Former Laois boss Tom Cribben is the new Offaly Senior Football manager.

The Offaly GAA Co Board have moved swiftly to appoint a successor to Richie Connor tonight by installing Tom Cribben as their new senior football manager, following a Co Board meeting at Tullamore.

ONCE the rival of London’s Oxford Street and New York’s Fifth Avenue in rental prices, Dublin’s Grafton street is now displaying the affects of the celtic recession — To Let and For Sale signs struggling with “massive discount” posters for shoppers’ attention.

NONE of the three people involved in the interim Offaly football management is interested in being considered for the position of manager for the year.

Offaly have appointed former players Vinny Claffey, Phil O'Reilly and Tom Coffey as an interim football management team.

THERE may still be only 12 days of Christmas, but it still seems to start earlier with each passing year. Unfortunately for Rhode, they took that all too literally yesterday by gift-wrapping a Leinster Club SFC title for Kilmacud that was theirs for the taking.

Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin) 2-07 Rhode (Offaly) 1-07

Éire Óg (Carlow) 0-04 Rhode (Offaly) 3-09

One of Dublin’s most senior business chiefs today called for the civil service wage bill to be cut by a fifth.

THOUSANDS of shoppers will attempt to beat the post-Christmas blues today as the winter sales get under way.

More than 500,000 people are expected to take public transport into Dublin today for the traditional annual December 8 Christmas shopping blitz.