Dublin 1-17 Longford 0-11

The appeals board approved the apartment plan in spite of the strong recommendation by its own inspector to refuse planning.

The going is good to soft as the runners and riders prepare for day one of the Cheltenham festival.

Colm O’Connor and Mark Gallagher examine the media policies and structures of the remaining counties in this year’s football and hurling championships.

PARADISE lost, found, cherished. Seven long years GAA's most famous fans have waited to see the boys in blue win a big match at Croker.

Tommy Stack unleashed a potentially decent juvenile when Another Express sprinted to victory in the Michael Murphy & Co. Ltd EBF Median Auction Maiden at the Curragh today.

Fancy a flutter?

"I think he's a Gold Cup horse"

The big race of the day, the Guinness Handicap, is off at 6.50pm.

Dublin midfielder Darren Homan remains seriously doubtful to be fit in time for tomorrow evening's Croke Park battle with All-Ireland champions Armagh.

Croke Park has been thrown wide open to the whole of the Dublin public in an effort to make Dublin's NFL tie with Armagh on February 2 a unique event.

FOR a pleasant change, all four South of Ireland semi-finalists at Lahinch this morning are career amateurs, men who work during the day and play golf in their spare time.

THE flags are out in force, stapled to every second car window that goes by, the jerseys crowd Henry street, the city is brimming with confidence.

THEY tried to create a real sense of occasion yesterday. A record-breaking attendance of 54,432, bolstered by 13,000 freebies for schoolchildren, came to Croke Park.

Tommy Lyons’ time as Dublin manager couldn’t be more removed from Jim Gavin’s tenure. But the Mayo native is in a good place to comment on the brilliance of a man he introduced to inter-county management.

TREVOR GILES will appeal to the Leinster Council tonight against the four-week suspension that rules him out of Sunday’s Meath SFC final.