With the death of playwright Tom Murphy, Ireland has lost one of the nation’s finest exponents of theatre. His career spanned more than six decades.

The Irish playwright Tom Murphy has died at the age of 83.

Rafael Nadal roared to French Open title number 11 with a straight-sets demolition of Dominic Thiem.

What’s seldom is wonderful.

Captain fantastic Sinéad Aherne finished with 1-9 as 2017 TG4 All-Ireland senior champions Dublin added a first-ever Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 title to their cabinet.

They finished 0-0 against Reading, but went up after Fulham lost 3-1 to Birmingham.

With all that has been revealed about the treatment of Sgt Maurice McCabe, it might have been reasonable

Liverpool fans in Rome appeared to keep a low profile ahead of the Champions League semi-final, as police said there have been no reported issues.

Galway manager Kevin Walsh will pass on the opportunity to rest his marquee players for Saturday’s visit of Monaghan, according to former Farney forward Tommy Freeman.

Father Time was pointing impatiently at his watch but the great Clare team of the 90s still had things to do.

Mayo’s coach for the last six seasons, Donie Buckley, and long-serving goalkeeping coach, Peter Burke, are both leaving the county management team.

The game from the gods with a Championship to boot, selecting All-Stars right now is a difficult exercise. There’s the increased quality obviously; so too the additional number of games from last year’s competition.

At the end of the match yesterday, I shook hands with Dave Punch, the former Limerick hurler, who works for RTÉ. He asked me if I saw the attendance. I did, I said — 71,000. Dave corrected me. ‘No, Dalo, 71,073.’

Over half a century ago Harold MacMillan reduced all of politics to those four words. Even now it’ll have to do as a description of Galway-Clare on Saturday evening.

Lethargic and disjointed for the first 25 minutes of this encounter, Galway exploded into life at Bord na Móna O’Connor Park in Tullamore this afternoon in the second half of the All-Ireland quarter-final clash with Clare, gradually undoing the early damage sustained before going on to record a comfortable seven-point win.

Clare joint-manager Donal Moloney has heaped praise on the character of his players who, he believes, have been unfairly criticised since claiming a shock All-Ireland title back in 2013.

Gus Lohan is admirably content with not remembering everything but he does recall his first score for Clar

Kerry manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice called on the Kingdom faithful to justify their billing as football-mad people in next Saturday’s make-or-break clash with Kildare in Killarney.

After last year's heartbreak in the All-Ireland hurling final against Galway, Waterford's Austin Gleeson is determined to give it everything he has until he can bring Liam home.

From driving tours to fine dining on the water to nearly limitless cultural delights, Paris has it all, writes Catherine Shanahan