Sinéad Aherne scored 1-3 as champions Dublin advanced to the TG4 All-Ireland Championship senior final after seeing off the challenge of their great rivals Cork.

The ease of their navigation from the group will both delight and worry Dublin manager Mick Bohan in equal measures.

The magnificent full-forward line of Grace Kelly, Rachel Kearns and Sarah Rowe came up trumps for Mayo at O’Connor Park in Tullamore as they claimed the top spot in Group 4 of the TG4 All-Ireland SFC with a deserved triumph over Donegal.

Defending champions Dublin underlined their TG4 All-Ireland SFC title credentials with a comprehensive Group 2 triumph against Waterford at O’Moore Park in Portlaoise.

Dublin claimed their eighth TG4 Leinster senior title in a row, but the scoreline doesn’t do justice to Westmeath who only fell out of contention thanks to late goals from Niamh McEvoy and Nicole Owens at netwatch Cullen Park.

A rip-roaring TG4 Connacht SFC Final gave the Castlebar crowd everything they craved and more when a ferocious Mayo team put Galway to the pin of their collar on Sunday afternoon.

Former Kildare star Daryl Flynn has admitted he knew prior to hoisting the cup after last month’s county final with Moorefield that doing so would cost him a one-match suspension.

Considering the amount of travel involved, she could be living the life of a professional. When it comes to golf, Kate Whyte is more than happy to remain amateur. 

A decent fountain throws water up into the air to refract sunlight and cool the surroundings, writes Terry Prone

Three former directors of the collapsed Custom House Capital investment firm are jointly and severally liable to pay €214,457 to a liquidator for the cost of his investigation, collection of evidence and for the legal fees, the High Court has ruled.

Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte is being portrayed as "the fall guy" over the takeover of the club, his fraud trial has been told.

Dave Connell's charges suffered defeat in their opening UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship Elite Round fixture against Scotland, losing 2-1 courtesy of a ninety-fifth minute penalty.

Divers and robots will today try to retrieve the black box of Irish Coast Guard helicopter R116 from the ocean where it is thought to lie at a depth of up to 40 metres.

A major operation to locate the wreckage of downed Rescue 116 is due to get underway at first light off Mayo today.

Tipperary 1-15 Waterford 1-7: Tipperary’s football pulse, having slowed somewhat during a turbulent and disruptive spring, quickened a beat in Dungarvan yesterday.

Waterford 0-11 Wexford 0-12: An irate Waterford manager Tom McGlinchey remonstrated with referee Shane Hehir on the full-time whistle after Wexford squashed their promotion aspirations.

Kildare 0-24 DIT 1-7: Kildare have had a very good record in the Bord na Móna O’Byrne Cup in recent years, moving clear at the top of the roll of honour with three successes already this decade and appearing in the last five finals.

Des O’Sullivan says that 2015 has been a year when records were broken for sales of art and sculpture.

A collapsed investment firm’s failure to maintain proper accounts has made it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to determine where €56m in misappropriated client funds has gone, the High Court has heard.

A select collection of works by Jack Butler Yeats and John Butler Yeats from the Model arts centre in Sligo, home of the important Niland Collection, have gone on tour for the first time with the opening of an exhibition in Wexford at the weekend.

Tipperary delivered a polished and confident performance to comfortably brush aside the challenge of Waterford in this one-sided Munster SFC quarter-final contest.

MORE than 340 lots will come under the hammer at two sales of Important Irish Art in Dublin next week.

US father and son marathon legends Dick and Rick Hoyt are preparing to take part in their first Irish race.

DAVID WHYTE opens his edited collection, How Corrupt is Britain?, by arguing that “the idea that British institutions are fair and democratic is one of the foundation stones of our self-imagined national heritage”.

UCC’s renowned literary journal, Quarryman, is being re-launched by the university’s inaugural MA in creative writing class. 

A George III style three pod dining table sold for €1,650 at Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill. 

A simple-looking Spanish guitar that might not otherwise be worth €30 could be worth more than 100 times that thanks to the signature of its previous owner: U2’s The Edge.

THERE are strong examples by Irish women artists at Whyte’s sale at the RDS next Monday at 6pm.

                    Des O’Sullivan finds a dazzling selection on offer 

Allianz FL Division 4 Round 2: Offally 0-13 Waterford 1-4: Waterford’s early season momentum hit the buffers in foggy and damp conditions at O’Connor Park yesterday afternoon as an early red card for midfielder Shane Ahearne left them hugely disadvantaged.

Dublin ended Kildare’s recent dominance of the Bord na Móna O’Byrne Cup at the end of a hugely entertaining game that needed extra time to produce a definitive result.

Keith Whyte, 33, battled temperatures of -26 degrees and ice-cold winds to cross the finish line in an incredible 9 hours, 26 minutes and two seconds.

Waterford 1-11 CIT 0-09: Waterford’s Shane Ahearne banged over a point from 60 yards three minutes into this McGrath Cup game to set the tone for the home side.

McGrath Cup: Waterford 1-16 University of Limerick 2-7

Four men have been arrested following an investigation into the sale of Rangers Football Club in 2011.

Poor little fella - he must have been terrified.