Suspended Tyrone pair Conor Gormley and Martin Penrose have requested a hearing with the GAA’s Central Hearings Committee.

A system to appoint the next Cork senior football manager is yet be put in place after the issue was not discussed at last night’s county board meeting in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

The first All-Ireland SHC semi-final of 2013, Cork versus Dublin on Sunday, began in orthodox fashion with both sides happy to play a traditional 3/3/2/3/3 formation.

Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill faces a late change of plan ahead of tonight’s World Cup qualifier against Russia, with Kyle Lafferty missing out with an Achilles injury.

A county Meath referee has been the subject of abusive phone calls over the past week following his officiating of a club football game.

Tradition packed its nasty wallop into Croke Park yesterday, to paraphrase the great AJ Leibling.

Cork 1-24 Dublin 1-19

At home his kids called him head-the-ball, their fondness for Seamus Heaney the father more than a match for their awe of him as artist.

Even that hasn’t shaken the shackles loose.

Kilmichael 2-09 Kilmurry 0-09

Na Piarsaigh 3-16 Ahane 0-07

Castlelyons 0-13 Newcestown 0-11

ANOTHER summer gone by without me swimming with dolphins. All I can ever boast is swimming with jellyfish.

The Pensions Board has singled out the construction industry as the worst offender for not paying employees’ pension contributions into their pension funds.

Three coffins; three hearses outside the church in the village of Crooke; three men who loved boats and fishing from the time they could walk.

Wicklow 1-12 Meath 1-17

I don’t often agree with Pat Spillane but he was 100% right when he said yesterday’s TV games were hard to sit through.

Martin Daly is regarded as Clare’s greatest ever forward; some would say their greatest ever footballer. But among a list of achievements the Lissycasey man clocked up for the Banner County, one stands out above the others

The people of Passage East have always gone to sea, but yesterday all they could do was think about the boat that failed to come home.

Poet, Leanne O’Sullivan, will read from her latest collection, The Mining Road, at the Allihies Arts Week, in Beara, West Cork on Saturday.