Galway legend Pádraic Joyce intends going into management and the man who gave him his first big break 15 years ago believes the former All Star will make an outstanding coach.

Galway’s longest serving player Padraic Joyce has decided to retire after 15 years of top-flight football.

A family firm is going against the grain by expanding its hand-crafted furniture range into the growing British market and opening a London showroom following a significant boost in sales.

I’ve watched RTE reporter Tommie Gorman’s 18 minute interview on May 2 with Catholic Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal Sean Brady, about when, in 1975, as a part-time 36 year-old-secretary to a bishop, he was the notetaker at a meeting with a young man telling his story of being abused by the most persistent of paedophile priests, Fr Brendan Smyth.

AS ALL-IRELAND U21-winning celebrations go, Colin Forde’s can be ranked as mild.

KILLERERIN’S Alan Keane will bid to add to his impressive gaelic football CV in tomorrow’s Connacht club SFC final against Roscommon champions St Brigid’s.

KILLERERIN have not given up hope that former Footballer of the Year Padraic Joyce might still be available for Sunday’s Connacht club semi-final against newly crowned Mayo champions Ballintubber.

I NEVER thought I’d be so relieved to see Nicholas Bendtner back fit and in the squad, but along with Theo Walcott, it was great to see the return of some genuine firepower on the bench for the game against Birmingham.

WITH the noisiest north corner of our impressive new stadium directly opposite the section of away fans in the south end, this huge arena’s two most vocal areas are separated by such a vast distance that sadly, there’s rarely any decent banter between the two sets of supporters these days.

DASHING around to the ground on Saturday, late as ever, an Only Fools & Horses style t-shirt on one of the stalls caught my eye, featuring Harry Redknapp as Del Boy and a rib-tickling variation of his catchphrase: “This time next year we’ll be Champions League”.

SIX yellow cards in a game which didn’t include a single malicious tackle; United back on terms from the award of a penalty at the Stretford End, after Shava’s far more blatant penalty shout had been ignored; then our much-maligned manager suffering the ultimate ignominy of being sent to the stands, for the last few seconds, after harmlessly venting his frustration on a water bottle. All in all, a fairly typical, fruitless afternoon at Old Trafford.

THERE’S rarely been a more convincing argument for returning to the days when they didn’t bother producing a table until six games in, than the laughable image of our friends from the wrong end of the Seven Sisters Road crowing from the Premier League’s top perch.

I KNOW we’re all supposed to be living in the global village nowadays but on these international football trips you can find yourself locked into a small world hermetically sealed on all four sides by the white line.

POLICE in Britain launched a murder hunt yesterday after a 42-year-old Corkman lost his battle for life, seven months after being shot by what are believed to have been two West Indians.

THE Meath County Board confirmed they will hold an election for the position of senior football manager.