On the night of Cratloe’s maiden county football final win last November, the Collins family marked the victory with a pot of tea at the kitchen table.

The best, like the best comics, know timing is everything.

The Cork Folk Festival provided a feast of great music and good fun, writes Eoin Edwards

So you think Irish life today is all about surviving the recession, the winter weather, and water charges? Well think again.

It is hard to avoid the sense that Ireland’s rugby provinces now find themselves at a crossroads, suggests Brendan O'Brien. 

This State would appear to have little time for anybody who stands apart from the herd. Time and again, whether it’s the musings of economist Morgan Kelly or the revelations of a number of whistle- blowers, organs of the State tend to close ranks and shut out dissonant voices.

So many great quotes this week, but the best was from one of Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s handlers, who, while defending Kenny damned him with faint praise: he said the Taoiseach was busy, because he had a country to “help” run.

The furore over Brian Cody’s criticism of Barry Kelly last weekend has shed some light on a little-discussed phenomenon in the GAA, the shadowy world of county-referee incompatibility, where it can be claimed without fear of contradiction that a certain county has issues with a certain official.

There were four house types built at the 33-unit scheme Mitchell’s Court, in Kerry Pike, just a short haul up the shouldering hills of Cork heading towards Blarney — or, towards Kerry, if you were to take the old butter roads.

An All-Ireland-winning Dublin footballer has blamed a "warrior ethos" within many sports, including GAA, for driving the determination of concussed players to finish a game.

I’m a rational thinker. I don’t really believe in fate.

Basle 1 Liverpool 0

Fasten the seat-belt and take a firm grip of something solid, suggests Donal Lenihan.

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew is set to remain in charge of the club for the foreseeable future, despite mounting calls for his dismissal, in the wake of his side’s dismal start to the Premier League season.

The Imma affair has thrown into sharp relief the glorious aspirations for government reform and transparency trumpeted by Fine Gael in its New Politics document, writes Michael Clifford.

In yesterday’s Irish Examiner, we carried a transcript of Brian Cody’s absorbing interview with six journalists in the bar of the CityWest Hotel on Sunday morning.

Brian Kelly is still struggling to get his head around it.

We sent Michael Moynihan to Kilkenny last week to speak to Brian Cody. This is what he brought back in tablets of stone.

The property tax is being exploited ruthlessly by politicians — irrespective of the cost to any principles they may claim to possess, writes Michael Clifford

Waterford SHC semi-final