Good job Paul Grimley wasn’t in Langton’s the other night. He’d have been in grave danger of choking on his fillet steak.

Patricia Ryan hopes Dunrath Eclipse will pass his biggest test to date when he tackles today’s cross-country phase at the Johnson and Perrott Land Rover International Horse Trials in Cork.

Munster 31 Zebre 5

It’s been just over two weeks since Donegal turned the bookies odds on their head and delivered their finest display of the Jim McGuinness era, seeing off heavily-favoured Dublin with a pulsating semi-final performance that few outside the set-up saw coming.

In the 48 hours after Donegal beat Cork in the 2012 All-Ireland semi-final, county secretary Aodh Mairtín Ó Fearraigh’s phone stopped working. It had melted under pressure from incoming calls, texts and emails.

Avondale United’s players wake up in Sligo today, having broken the back of one of the longest journeys in Irish football as they head for Ballybofey and an FAI Ford Cup quarter-final replay against Finn Harps.

A member of Mayo's backroom team, Kieran Shannon, recalls the emotional moment when James Horan announced he was stepping down as Mayo manager.

Chelsea: ‘Absolutely horrible monster’ Costa just what we needed

GAA chiefs and Gardaí are likely to review footage of the unsavoury scenes which marred the end of the epic All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday evening.

He’s had a long innings in the Kerry jersey, but Aidan O’Mahony still felt Saturday evening in Limerick was special.

Happiest man in Limerick on Saturday evening?

It seemed almost ludicrous to question the killer instinct of a side that had amassed 9-88 in four games this summer, but the suspicion that Dublin lacked a killer instinct was only confirmed at Croke Park yesterday.

My former midfield partner is at last getting the plaudits his talents and effort deserves

This weekend three years ago Kevin Cassidy played in the infamous/immortal Donegal-Dublin All-Ireland semi-final. He did not know at the time it would be his last game for the county. But since his fallout with Jim McGuinness life went on, and he moved on.

After years grinding on the junior circuit, 20-year-old Canadian Eugenie Bouchard is poised to be one of the sport’s next big stars. Now she just needs that breakthrough win

Model and TV presenter Glenda Gilson turned up a fashionable 36 minutes late for her wedding yesterday in an overcast but mainly dry Kilrush in Co Clare.

The Rover ****

Lauren Bacall, the award-winning actress and Humphrey Bogart’s partner off and on screen, has died at 89.

Jack Charleton may have overseen our national soccer team’s most successful era, but retired veteran broadcaster Bill O’Herlihy has revealed he was certainly not the former Ireland manager’s number one fan.

Championship matches between Cork and Tipperary have always been explosive affairs, but none more so than the 1950 Munster final.