Dubliner Val Andrews has resigned as manager of the Cavan senior footballers with immediate effect.

Cavan’s football squad has contacted county chairman Tom Reilly to outline a number of grievances with manager Val Andrews.

THE bizarre decision to play a seven-minute game to decide which team will be relegated from the Louth IFC has been overruled.

GAA President Christy Cooney admits the GAA’s need to finalise a hurling development plan has intensified following the decision of Cavan to withdraw from this year’s Lory Meagher Cup.

LEITRIM GAA chiefs support Cavan’s decision to pull their senior hurling side out of competition for five years.

Cavan will not withdraw from senior hurling competitions for the next five years, contrary to reports this morning.

CAVAN will not take part in senior hurling competitions for five years to concentrate on underage development — with or without Croke Park’s permission.

TYRONE officials are keeping their fingers crossed Philip Jordan will return to the panel after deciding to concentrate on club football with Moy at the moment.

TOMMY CARR believes the support he received from his players in the face of an administrative heave-ho last summer was a line in the sand from a squad that is sick and tired of the county’s managerial merry-go-round.

The Cavan GAA County Board has come out in support of the workers at Quinn Insurance.

REGARDING the current two-part RTÉ series, Cromwell in Ireland, the following: Dr Micheál Ó Siochrú wants us to believe that innocent women and children were deliberately killed by Cromwell and his men at Drogheda.

EAMON Coughlan and Keith Wood are amongst the high profile board members of the new Irish Institute of Sport under the executive chairmanship of Sean Kelly.

IN a foreword he wrote to a book of mine a few years ago, the late Fine Gael TD Jim Mitchell argued that Dáil vacancies should be filled by co-options rather than through by-elections.

WITH one chapter closed in Massachusetts’ gay marriage debate, several new ones open, as gay couples look ahead to what may be a short-lived chance to tie the knot and lawmakers prepare for crucial November elections.

NOW that Massachusetts' highest court has declared that gay couples have the right to marry under the state constitution, the political debate begins over how the legislature should react.

THE Offaly County Board has been hit by a number of high-profile resignations. The departures of a number of Edenderry officials follows the sacking of Offaly senior football boss, and their fellow clubman, Paul O’Kelly.

A TRAVELLER couple deliberately provoked a publican into refusing them service so they could later take a discrimination claim, an equality tribunal has ruled.

The state of Massachusetts are seeking tougher antitrust measures against Microsoft.

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

Tests were today under way on the body of the man dubbed the Boston Strangler in a bid by his family to clear his name.