Rathnew manager Harry Murphy has called on the Leinster Council to give Wicklow the opportunity to pull off their own Aughrim ambush next summer.

Ray Cosgrove is a busy man, though not as busy as he should be.

A 5-16 to 1-11 win for London, over Carlow, was the big story in Division 2A of the Allianz hurling league yesterday.

Andrew Tormey scored 1-9 for Meath as they worked hard to secure a Leinster SFC semi-final against Westmeath on June 28 at Croke Park.

Leitrim forward Emlyn Mulligan has let rip at the county board’s intention to cut overnight stays for their travelling teams.

Joe McNamee basks in the comforts of Ireland’s only organic hotel, the Brooklodge Hotel & Wells Spa, in Macreddin Village.

A small pinch was required, reveals Leighton Glynn, just to make sure it was all real.

The Derry, Laois and Kerry hurlers all got their Allianz NHL Division 2A campaigns off to winning starts this afternoon.

Joe Bergin has decided to call time on his career as a Galway senior footballer, after 13 years playing for the Tribesmen.

Legendary Kerry boss Mick O’Dwyer is in contention to make a sensational return to football management with Clare.

When he was lying in a hospital bed 12 months ago undergoing a heavy dose of chemotherapy and listening to a tale about a man who had died from the same type leukaemia he had, John McGrath cracked.

Leighton Glynn’s season is over.

More Grimm Brothers Fairytales than grim in style is the Gatelodge — and its gardens — at the former Wicklow estate of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.

Seanie Johnston’s protracted attempts to transfer clubs from Cavan to Kildare rekindles memories of Thomas Walsh’s switch from his native Carlow to Wicklow in 2007.

Mick O'Dwyer wants his Wicklow players to finish the job when they meet Armagh in tonight's All-Ireland SFC second round qualifier replay.

WICKLOW might become the first county Mick O’Dwyer will depart without winning championship silverware but the ethos and style of football that the Kerry legend has promoted for over half a century is clearly embedded in the Garden County.

CONOR COUNIHAN has named an unchanged side from the team that beat Monaghan a fortnight ago for Cork’s Allianz NFL Division 1 game tomorrow night against Down.

IT might only have been the second weekend in January but Tony Hannon’s clenched fist celebrations after scoring what turned out to be the winning point in a chilly Portlaoise yesterday suggested Wicklow are well up for a repeat of their O’Byrne Cup run to the semi-finals in 2007.

DON’T tell Leighton Glynn that the international rules don’t matter. So proud is the Wicklow man of his involvement that missing out on the first test in Limerick last Saturday wasn’t even considered.

Mick O'Dwyer's future as Wicklow senior football manager is still up in the air, as the vacant Mayo managerial position becomes the latest he has been linked with.

WICKLOW GAA chiefs will give Mick O’Dwyer “the space he wants” to decide on his managerial future with the Garden County.

IT is 56 years since Mick O’Dwyer had his first involvement with inter-county football, lining out for the Kerry minors against Cork in the Munster championship.

Not for the first time Mick O’Dwyer is working the oracle in an adopted land. Brendan O’Brien, Daragh O Conchúir and Colm O’Connor spoke to four men who have first-hand experience of the Kerryman’s managerial brilliance.

WICKLOW GAA last night turned the sod on a 57-acre site that will become the county’s centre of excellence.

O'Moore Park in Portlaoise is set for a triple header of GAA Championship games including the plum All-Ireland SFC fourth round qualifier tie involving Wicklow and Kildare, after the GAA announced details of next weekend's fixtures.

MANAGER Jody Gormley slammed the handful of Antrim players who deserted their Tommy Murphy Cup challenge that ended in an historic success on Saturday.

IF THERE is one thing the Tommy Murphy Cup has achieved, it has pushed Arthur French firmly into the GAA spotlight.

Laois 2-19 Wicklow 0-8

WICKLOW’S victory over Kildare in the Division 2 NHL semi-final affords them the opportunity to play the final against Laois as a curtain-raiser to the Kilkenny/Waterford decider in Thurles on April 29.

Minister for Health Mary Harney today denied her seriously ill mother used political influence to jump the queue for a hospital operation.

The Government continues its tradition of holding Cabinet meetings outside Dublin when it convenes in the historic former home of Charles Stewart Parnell in Co Wicklow tomorrow.

Carlow 2-13 Wicklow 1-13

Wicklow's senior footballers will train at Manchester United's Carrington training ground today.

IT’S a little odd that people should be surprised by the presence of traditional heavyweights like Dublin and Derry in the All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals.

Wicklow skipper Trevor Doyle has been ruled out of the county's Leinster SFC opener against Meath on May 23 because of suspension.

DRUIDS GLEN is unquestionably one of the major success stories of modern Irish golf. Although only opened in 1995, “Gleann na Draoithe”, as its creator and owner Hugo Flinn likes to call it, hosted the Irish Open from 1996 to 1999, the Seve Trophy in 2002 and European Golf Course of the Year in 2001.

LEO CULLEN isn’t everybody’s idea of the ideal Ireland second-row.

Wicklow county board chairman Donal McGillycuddy has appealed to the County Council not to drop their sponsorship of the football team.

Wicklow 4-9 Kerry 2-12

SUMMERTIME might have finally arrived yesterday but the living was far from easy for one group of youths at Wicklow.