ANTHONY Nash may have tagged in Patrick Horgan on Sunday but we haven’t seen the last of the goalkeeper’s thunderbolts. Not by a, ahem, long shot.

The game is up now, of that there could be no doubt. The argument is no longer about whether cynicism exists in Gaelic football but how it thrives.

GAA Congress doesn’t exactly get pulses racing, but this weekend’s gathering in Derry is arguably the most important since 2005 when delegates voted to give Central Council the power to make Croke Park available for international rugby and soccer games.

THERE was a packed hall at the impressive Claughaun GAA complex last night for the special convention of Limerick GAA, followed immediately by the first county board meeting of 2010.

A man in his early 30s has been killed in a road crash in Co. Donegal.

GARDAÍ have welcomed the launch of a unique project which will provide a listening service for lonely elderly people and even give them access to handymen for odd jobs — all free of charge.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley yesterday intervened in the controversial Monaghan County Development Plan ordering councillors to go back to the drawing board.

A FURTHER allocation of €464,200 for works to be carried out on forestry access roads in CLÁR areas was announced yesterday by Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív.

THE meeting of the GAA’s Motions Committee in Dublin tonight to adjudicate on re-submitted motions will determine whether the issue of opening up Croke Park to rugby and soccer is dead in the water — or will be a live issue at Congress in April.

Extra funding for community initiatives in Clár areas have been announced by Minister for the Gaeltacht Eamonn O’Cuiv.