Eoghan Cormican takes a look at each county ahead of the club championship.

The recent controversy concerning Sean Cavanagh has again brought the issue of cynical play in Gaelic games into the national spotlight.

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s final studio album, and fans aren’t just able to buy a new “super deluxe” boxset to celebrate the occasion. They can also buy the childhood home of late frontman Kurt Cobain, complete with his mattress.

Kims Dream, trained in Clonroche, County Wexford by Noel Dooly, completed a tremendous hat-trick when justifying 7/4 favouritism in the Keen Print Handicap in Roscommon last night.

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It certainly wasn’t your traditional county final celebration but Podge Collins wouldn’t have it any other way.

Majestic Timeline has put County Roscommon handler Adrian Joyce on the map in his first season as a trainer.

It’s a fair way from Carrigtwohill, Co Cork to Dundalk, but Timjoe can justify another trip up the motorway by landing the concluding Fund Raising Made Easy At |Dundalk Handicap on the all-weather tonight.

Mystic Menu, once again, lays out some predictions and identifies trends for the coming year in Irish food.

Scotland’s Jamie Savage proved a cool head is half the battle as he took advantage of a series of mistakes by Ireland’s leading contenders to snatch a two-shot win in the Irish Amateur Open at a wet and windy Royal Dublin.

Gary McDermott defied rain squalls and winds gusting up to 30 mph to shoot a sensational 69 for a one shot lead after the opening round of the Irish Amateur Open at Royal Dublin.

Lean And Keen can land the nap in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Dundalk Race And Stay Package Maiden on the all weather tonight.

There’s a lot of love out there for Rory McIlroy but while everyone from Russell Henley to Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller were constructive and kind about the Irishman’s final-round collapse at the Honda Classic, McIlroy started the healing process straight away by taking ownership of his mistakes.

Def Leppard have finally allowed their music to become available on Spotify and other services. Just don’t ask frontman Joe Elliott to embrace hip hop, writes Joe Nerssessian.

A long forgotten Irish charity supergroup that included Cork singer-songwriter Freddie White from Cobh is being remembered by aid agency Concern Worldwide - as it thanks them and many other celebrities who have supported its work over the years.

The three strands of Darren Hughes’ life come together to sustain the Monaghan midfielder; football, family, and farming as he shares a day in a way of life that is rapidly diminishing in rural Ireland.

Graeme McDowell left Ballyliffin last night satisfied with a “grinding” one-under-par 71 that he believes will give him a great chance of a maiden Dubai Duty Free Irish Open victory if he can repeat it for another 54 holes.

Simon Lewis For the second summer in succession, Pádraig Harrington is returning to the scene of a major championship triumph and just as he did at Birkdale 12 months ago, he will be sure to smell the roses as he makes his way around the famous links at Carnoustie.

Denman, the 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, died yesterday at the age of 18, trainer Paul Nicholls told Betfair.

The Irish band’s frontman Tim Wheeler says songwriting is as much about understanding life now that he is in his 40s as it was when he was a teen, writes Ed Power