Graham Burke hit the winner — his first goal back in a Hoops shirt — as Shamrock Rovers stretched their unbeaten league run to seven games against 10-man Waterford at Tallaght Stadium.

Niall Quinn has slammed the FAI’s reform bid, claiming he’s no interest in joining the new board.

Felix Jones could join the Springboks coaching set-up ahead of the World Cup, according to reports in South Africa.

The legend goes that, upon his release from 27 years imprisonment, the first words Nelson Mandela uttered as he shielded his eyes from the hot South African sun were “Is Martin Carney still playing for Mayo?”

Ireland’s Sam Bennett came within a whisker of making it back-to-back stage wins at the Vuelta a Espana as Nicolas Roche retained the race leader’s red jersey.

Tiger Woods has announced he has undergone surgery on his left knee to repair cartilage damage.

After last week’s European Championships in dressage and show jumping, the spotlight this week turns on the eventing equivalent, with Germany staging the battle for medals at Luhmühlen.

Dublin great Charlie Redmond has insisted there’ll be no ‘resentment’ if Diarmuid Connolly beats a lionheart performer like Bernard Brogan to an All-Ireland final bench spot.

Fermanagh players have given a huge seal of approval to their new manager, multiple All-Ireland winning former Tyrone player Ryan ‘Ricey’ McMenamin.

Austin Gleeson feels that the Waterford players must take responsibility for results over the last two summers.

Munster Rugby’s loss is Cork GAA’s gain as Aidan O’Connell joins the latter organisation as their first ever high-performance manager.

Ireland rugby head coach, Joe Schmidt, has put his front-line stars under pressure ahead of the Test against Wales, in Cardiff, this Saturday. He says his World Cup selection process is still wide-open.

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.

Victorious Tipperary manager Liam Cahill hailed his team, especially their lighting start that included four goals inside the first 10 minutes.

A blitz of 2-6 in 11 early second half minutes inspired by Con O’Callaghan and Paul Mannion sent Dublin into a fifth straight All-Ireland final.

Let’s be honest, all Galwegians were all a little nervous settling into our seats yesterday afternoon. 

A young mother who made a "sham" 999 call several hours after murdering her two-year-old daughter has been ordered to serve at least 16 years in jail.

Leading Irish jumps owners Gigginstown House Stud have offered their unyielding support to trainer Philip Fenton, who has been charged with possession of anabolic steroids and other unlicensed substances.

THE spot occupied by this elegant home, Fenton, is, it could be said, in a parallel universe, a garden oasis filled with birdsong in lieu of traffic snarl, sandwiched between Cork city’s Blackrock and Boreenmanna roads.

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Christy Mullins reached his second successive Munster senior final when he dethroned Munster and European champion David Murphy in the last shot at Shannonvale on Sunday.

HE began the game on the bench but by the full-time whistle, Joseph Barry had made a defining contribution in tipping yesterday’s Dr Harty Cup Group C encounter in Charleville, in the direction of St Flannan’s.

PHILIP FENTON is expecting Dunguib to improve enormously for his first run of the campaign at Gowran Park on Saturday.

A WOMAN who stabbed a man to death before hitting herself on the head with a hammer and jumping off a road bridge pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a British court yesterday.

THE first thing that probably strikes you looking at Munster’s best hurling team of the last 25 years – an initiative between the Munster Council of the GAA and the Irish Examiner – is the illustration of various eras within the province.

A MOTHER of two from north Cork has appeared in court in England accused of stabbing a 54-year-old man to death.