The Grace investigation into claims a severely disabled mute woman suffered decades of sexual abuse at a State foster home has asked to delay its findings until the end of the year — pushing back the start of inquiries into 46 other cases at the home.

Hendrick’s sweet volley handed Burnley the lead against the run of play, Chelsea failing to clear a corner.

“Goodison is no place to go with a Spanish hangover,” fretted your pessimistic correspondent here last week, although not even I thought the week would turn out quite this badly.

Tiger, eh? I have to confess I didn’t echo the calls for his canonisation last weekend. I’m not a golf man, for one thing, and I find Tiger Woods a fair turn-off, to put it mildly.

Hard work did a young Na Piarsaigh side make of this first-round Cork SHC clash.

A 1-6 haul for Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh was enough for Kerry to book their place in the Lidl National League Division 2 final, where they’ll face either Cavan or Waterford in two weeks’ time.

An injury-time point from Pa Cronin secured victory for Bishopstown in this hugely entertaining Cork SHC first-round clash.

This Cork senior hurling championship round 1 game didn’t survive to half-time as a contest, with a vastly experienced Sarsfields side putting away Kanturk with a devastating first-half scoring burst.

For 20 years Michael Corcoran has been working in RTÉ, covering and commentating on the Irish provinces’ exploits in Europe, writes Kieran Shannon.

Let us join forces to block Assange’s extradition from any European country to the US, so that he can travel to Stockholm and give his accusers an opportunity to be heard, writes Yanis Varoufakis

Ronan McNamee wasn’t surprised at the level of criticism aimed at Tyrone earlier in their Division 1 campaign.

Had Ulster won, it would have been a storyline squeezed for space by its subplots.

After three years waiting for a Connacht victory on Irish soil, it was like two came at once for Galway yesterday in this emphatic win over Roscommon on their home patch.

Intensity and work-rate are the modern day bedrocks of football success. But finesse must still have a place

The Championship?

It was a different world twenty years ago. Most counties knew their place in the GAA’s hierarchy.

By way of laying our scene for the new hurling championship, two conversations from the evening of May 6, shortly after the National League final.

This Life actor stars in role made famous by Yul Brynner, says Colette Sheridan

Danny North scored in each half as Sligo Rovers kept their unbeaten Premier Division run intact last night.

This day last year they couldn’t do without him. Leo Cullen couldn’t anyhow.