TEARS of joy flooded onto the St Conleth’s Park pitch in Newbridge yesterday as Athy ended a 24-year wait for a county title in convincing circumstances.

CAPTAIN Elaine Finn kicked the winning point as Westmeath staged a remarkable fightback to win the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies IFC final replay against Cavan at Croke Park yesterday.

COURCEY ROVERS survived a late rally from Youghal to win the Cork Premier IHC final by 0-15 to 1-10 at Páirc Ui Rinn yesterday — an inspirational display from centre-back and man-of-the-match Vince Hurley going a long way to helping them gain senior status.

EARLY start last Saturday morning, to get the City Special edition out on the final whistle of Ireland-Wales at the Rugby World Cup.

AFTER years of frustration, under-achievement, near misses and calamitous failure at the World Cup, Saturday’s quarter-final offered the perfect opportunity to rewrite history and set the record straight.

THERE’S a nastily parochial feeling in this part of the world that none of the northern hemisphere nations can manage to win the three games on the trot that would allow them to take home the big chocolate box.

Enda McEvoy and Diarmuid O’Flynn argue both sides of the debate

WHEN La Collina mugged Power in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh last month, here’s one who could not believe what he had just seen.

RECENTLY retired Kilkenny star Martin Comerford has surprisingly claimed the Cats shouldn’t have been awarded a penalty in the 2009 All-Ireland final against Tipperary.

LAST YEAR'S epic showdown marked Tipperary’s Declan Fanning and Kilkenny’s Martin Comerford last game. Speaking separately, they recollect two of the greatest finals in the history of the game.

IT’S been a fantastic few years for Kilkenny supporters, a decade of unprecedented success with a series of old failures rectified.

FORMER Kilkenny star Christy Heffernan has claimed Tipperary people have yet to get over the penalty that paved the way for the Cats’ 2009 All-Ireland final success.

CAVAN referee Joe McQuillan will take charge of his first All-Ireland final when Kerry and Dublin duel on September 18.

STUCK in traffic on a depressingly dreary Friday, it was hard to believe it was only the day before that we’d been watching the Champions League draw, plotted up in the Venice sunshine, fantasising about further European glory.

WE should really be eulogising the GAA here this week, on the eve of another episode in what is probably the greatest trilogy it has ever known.

AS the half-time whistle sounded on Saturday, the guy next to me was singing “we’re going down with the Arsenal”.

SHANE LONG or Fernando Torres?

GREEN or red, the colour doesn’t matter. Colm Cooper just loves the sight of those Mayo jerseys.

Bishopstown 0-13 Ballinhassig 0-12

Kilbrittain 5-15 Aghabullogue 0-5