Neil Lennon and the Scottish Football Association (SFA) are on course for yet another collision after the Celtic manager described his half-time sending off at Ibrox as “a joke” and claimed he was “deprived of doing my job properly” during yesterday’s 3-2 defeat to Rangers.

If Motherwell fail to beat Kilmarnock at Rugby Park today, the Hoops can win the title at the home of their greatest rivals for the first time since 1967.

Ireland’s refereeing nemeses of recent times, Dave Pearson and Romain Poite, have been placed in charge of the provinces’ upcoming Heineken Cup quarter-finals.

I was talking to a Kilkenny hurler of the 1960s and 70s lately (And before you ask, no, it wasn’t Eddie Keher).

The reaction to the seismic Mahon Report focussed on the villains of the piece — Ahern, Flynn, Lawlor, Burke and O’Callaghan — and their supporting cast.

The Armagh County Board were yesterday forced to admit their description of racist abuse allegations in Portlaoise last Sunday was erroneous.

Waterford hurling selector Nicky Cashin has stepped down for “personal reasons”, with Déise legend Ken McGrath widely tipped to join manager Michael Ryan’s backroom team as a replacement.

This stylish home in Aghadoe, outside Killarney, is finished to a five-star standard with space aplenty, sympathetic landscaping — and a National Park on the doorstep, writes Tommy Barker.

Kilkenny progressed with their customary assurance yesterday at Semple Stadium but received an adequately stern examination from Clare to earn their right to a spot in the final.

After Borussia Dortmund won the league title last season, their coach Jurgen Klopp was determined that nobody should get carried away.

Baby Sergio O’Connor, a twin with an award-winning smile, will travel to Boston with his parents on Monday for a life-changing operation.

When he died 100 years ago today, the Irish writer had not received due recognition for creating our favourite vampire, says Robert Hume

UCC, the hosts and favourites, booked their place in today’s Fitzgibbon Cup final and in the process set up the first all-Cork college decider in the history of the event.

Ace striker Gary Twigg scored a goal in each half to give defending champions Shamrock Rovers a winning start to the new campaign, and it was more comfortable than the scoreline suggests, against an under-strength Drogheda.

A High Court judge blew the final whistle on “notorious” legal action launched by Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs against The Sun.

Ireland coach Declan Kidney has charged his players with repeating their Heineken Cup heroics on French soil when they bid to land an all too rare Six Nations victory in Paris on Sunday.

Antolin Alcaraz headed a late winner as Wigan condemned Blackburn to relegation and ensured their own Premier League survival last night.

The slow but steady unravelling of Tottenham’s season continues as they, like Manchester City, now have to put up with the familiar feeling of seeing their local rivals enjoying life above them in the Premier League table.

A few years ago the good people in Croke Park got so incensed about one of these columns that they sent a rather spicy letter of rebuke to my newspaper.

The Armagh County Board will cite an incident involving a member of the Laois official party at their meeting with Central Hearings Committee (CHC) tomorrow night.