Ahead of the international trials in Ireland, Paul D’Alton goes sheep-herding with Con McGarry and his dog, Megan

Georgia 1 Republic of Ireland 2: Well, we learned one thing from a long, hot night in Georgia — Martin O’Neill is good for Aiden McGeady and Aiden McGeady is certainly good for Martin O’Neill.

Drama at Sedgefield saw the Compare Bookies Odds At bookies.com Handicap Chase declared void due to an incorrect flag being deployed, with all the riders in the race handed 10-day bans.

Emma O’Reilly’s book, The Race To Truth – Blowing The Whistle On Lance Armstrong And Cycling’s Doping Culture, has been short-listed for Sports Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards.

A mother who has been crusading for new laws since her son was killed by a drunk driver has warned young people about the dangers of getting in to a car with a driver who is under the influence of drink or drugs.

International Friendly

FA chairman Greg Dyke has written to every Fifa executive committee member calling for "urgent action" to ensure ethics investigator Michael Garcia’s report into World Cup bidding is published in full.

Manchester United will today reveal the first definitive figures on the financial cost of missing out on the Champions League.

After passing by an angry gathering on his way into Dublin’s Mansion House on Sunday night, the Taoiseach sardonically commented on the motives of protesters: "Well, it’s not about water, is it?"

To deter US from torturing again, those involved should be prosecuted, if not the least that can be done is to enact policies to ensure its recurrence is less likely, says Kenneth Roth.

Any hope the Government might have harboured that reductions in water charges would mollify the public at large has been surely dashed by the tens of thousands of people who took to the streets of Dublin yesterday.

Champions League Group B

After the high of the autumn international series and the feel good factor attaching to the confirmation during the week that Ireland will bid to host a World Cup in 2023, it was inevitable that Irish rugby would be dealt a dose of reality some time soon, writes Donal Lenihan.

Castlemartyr 0-14 Modeligo 5-12

It was a tale of two wingers at White Hart Lane on Saturday – one the exotic record signing who looks increasingly like another expensive mistake, and the other a local boy made good after a circuitous apprenticeship in non-league and the lower divisions.

Michael Clifford questions the failure of gardaí to interview a whistleblower who was a witness to an assault on a prison officer, and the lack of urgency in pursuing the case

Matt Ritchie fired Newcastle past the 40-point mark as they came from behind to beat Arsenal and claim a fourth successive Premier League win.

The best way to get the full experience of Hawaii, from its lava landscape to its amazing marine life, is by air, land and sea, writes Isabel Conway.

Former commissioner Martin Callinan told solicitor Gerald Kean that garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe "had not cooperated in any shape or form" with an internal garda inquiry into his complaints, the Charleton tribunal has heard.

Cristiano Ronaldo insists referee Michael Oliver was right to award Real Madrid the injury-time penalty which he dispatched to send his side through to the Champions League semi-finals.