Tipperary GAA Board has begun to search to find a new manager for the county’s senior football team.

Tipperary football board chairman Joe Hannigan has insisted that the appointment of the county’s next senior manager will be a “statement of intent”.

Exciting young prospect Simon Carr has been rewarded with a wild card into the main draw of the ITF Men’s Futures Irish Open.

What constitutes sledging? The buzzword-in-chief of the 2015 championship made an unexpected intrusion into Newstalk’s build-up to the weekend’s hurling.

It was bound to happen. Just as all good things must come to an end, so too must the bad ones and so it was that Brendan Fitzpatrick on March 28 ended a barren goal streak in the league for Cavan that stretched back to last spring.

Jim Gavin says finding a settled Dublin team isn’t his priority and indicated as many as 40 players could feature in the Allianz League.

When reflecting the other day on the fact that we’ve just passed the halfway point of the football decade, the mind soon turned to the journey home from the heart-stopping, Croker-packed 2010 All-Ireland semi-final between Cork and Dublin.

Eight years ago, Lar Corbett was wondering whether his best days were past him. His hamstrings were dodgy, his appearances in the blue and gold fleeting.

The outrage bus doesn’t discriminate. It takes all comers.

Dublin’s awesome rise is now a growing concern

TENNIS: Top seeds Rachael Dillon and Lazare Kukalashvili made short work of their respective opponents as the centenary Irish Close Championships continued at Donnybrook LTC.

The rising Westmeath star caught at the centre of a racial storm last year insists he will never strike out in retaliation to abuse.

Westmeath football has been handed a huge boost with the news that minor star Israel Ilunga has been granted full Irish citizenship.

Westmeath football has received a massive boost following the state’s decision to hand full citizenship to rising star Israel Ilunga.

GAA referees could soon have the power to send players off for racism offences.

In the end it was no more than a rehearsal but that didn’t stop some reviewing the black card’s debut like it was its opening weekend.

The Drummy family had cause for major celebration after collecting three titles in the William Fry National Junior Championships, at Fitzwilliam LTC on Saturday.

Tommy Carr has hit back at the Meath minor manager who claimed Westmeath fabricated a racial slur during their Leinster MFC semi-final in Navan last month and damaged the anti-racism movement.

Manicuring the lawn of Kingspan Breffni Park represents a relatively stress-free job, one would think, yet John Wrenne’s role has lent itself to a library-full of unusual memories.

Last Sunday week, Tommy Carr informed RTÉ Radio One listeners that Cork’s footballers were arrogant.

Former Dublin manager Tommy Carr criticised the current lack of involvement of players from Meath’s glory era of the 1980s and ’90s and said other counties’ weakness should not be an excuse to split Dublin.

It looks like Jim Gavin is less than three weeks away from becoming the new Dublin senior football manager.

Jim Gavin’s former U21 selector Declan Darcy believes the 1995 All-Ireland winner is the stand-out candidate to succeed Pat Gilroy as Dublin manager.

Bravest coaching call, any sport?

Former Kilkenny footballer Michael Mahony has slammed Tommy Carr’s comments about the state of the game in the county.

Deadlock: Dublin v Meath 1991

FORMER Dublin boss Tommy Carr admits he regrets shouting at Maurice Fitzgerald as he readied himself to take what proved to be his wonder equalising point in the 2001 All-Ireland quarter-final replay.

THREE days after 1992 Dublin captain Tommy Carr said the players were right to go to Donegal’s semi-final before they had even qualified for the decider, it was interesting to hear what his former team-mate and current manager Pat Gilroy said about last weekend’s game between Kerry and Mayo.

WHAT was the root of Dublin’s demise against Donegal 19 years ago? Depends who you talk to.

FORMER Dublin stars Paddy Cullen and Tommy Carr believe Kerry’s presence in the All-Ireland final casts a shadow over the county’s semi-final against Donegal on Sunday.

THE ACCUSED: The GAA’s fixture planners

Division Three

The GAA will send a letter to the Cavan County Board this week demanding an explanation for Sunday night’s county training game at Breffni Park.

THE GAA will send a letter to the Cavan County Board this week demanding an explanation for Sunday night’s county training game at Breffni Park.

CAVAN’S footballers were last night discovered as the first inter-county side to have broken the winter training ban after they arranged a practice game under lights at their 3G pitch at Breffni Park.

FORMER Monaghan boss Seamus McEnaney yesterday refused to rule out a sensational return to the helm.

Two former Dublin bosses, Tommy Lyons and Tommy Carr, have entered the race to become the next Mayo senior football manager.

GALWAY minor football boss Gerry Fahy has emerged as the front-runner to succeed Joe Kernan as senior manager following Monday’s submission of nominations from the clubs.

KERRY boss Jack O’Connor admits Kerry are in transition but insists he still has the enthusiasm after being appointed for a third term on Monday night.

DERMOT EARLEY will be given until right before throw-in to prove his fitness for Kildare’s All-Ireland semi-final with Down on Sunday.

A joint senior football management team of Val Andrews and Terry Hyland is likely to be ratified by the Cavan County Board tomorrow night.