FOR vegetable gardeners this time of the year can be immensely frustrating as well as rewarding.

THE vintage roll-top bath remains a popular inclusion in even a contemporary bathroom.

They say you should never meet your heroes so it was probably just as well that Gary Player didn’t feature on my list of all-time favourite sporting stars when I shared a car journey with him to a golf tournament.

IT COMES as a surprise to learn that Paul Browne is still only 23 and experiencing just his fifth season as an inter-county hurler, but the Limerick midfielder bears the battle scars of the most grizzled veteran.

Cavan captain Alan Clarke says there was no malice in Saturday night’s half-time scuffle with Fermanagh and believes referees are booking players for trivial offences.

The rulebook will have done nothing these past 36 hours to shield James McGrath from the torrent of abuse he’s received for sending off Pa Horgan on Sunday.

As Limerick won a first Munster senior hurling title since 1996 at the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday, one man with a grandstand view has a unique link to Limerick past and Limerick future.

In answer to the question on a myriad of Geordie lips, Demba Ba probably was watching.

IT is galling of the Government to blame social media for suicides while simultaneously raiding tens of millions of euro from suicide prevention services in order to shore up the budget of the Department of Health.

Put it down to guilty conscience.

Laois 1-15 Galway 0-10

The Ireland midfielder on how an enforced lay-off through injury has helped reinforce his conviction that a player should always be mindful of the day the final whistle blows.

When Donegal beat Kerry in last year’s All-Ireland Championship quarter-final, Jim McGuinness’s reaction at the final whistle said it all. Normally fairly stoic in victory, McGuinness refused to contain his emotions as he jumped and punched the air.

Waterford 0-12 Galway 0-15

Leinster 18 Ulster 22

Former inter-county referee John Bannon claims there has been a massive over-reaction to the success of the black card recommendation.

As a player, Daithí Regan was a force to be reckoned with, and as an analyst, the Offaly man is proving equally formidable. But there’s a deeper, reflective side to Regan the public rarely gets to see

Ryan McKane was only 10 at the time but can still remember his parents having an angry discussion over what should happen next.

It was hard to keep sight of the green shoots of a footballing spring at the Aviva last Tuesday as thick snow began to swirl into the press box, threatening to short-circuit the old laptoperooney. And harder still, nigh on impossible in fact, when they were unceremoniously trampled underfoot at the death.

The 2-2 draw with Austria on Tuesday evening was bitterly disappointing and left the players visibly demoralised at the final whistle.