It was the final whistle for former Dublin footballer Denis Bastick, who last night became the sixth

Cork may have confessed afterwards that they felt disrespected by such a big ‘underdog’ tag but Dublin manager Mick Bohan bristled at the suggestion that anyone in his camp was guilty of it.

If Pádraig Harrington does get the nod to lead Europe into the 2020 Ryder Cup, as many expect he will, then he could not be happier with the course that the PGA of America has chosen to host the biennial team event.

Rory McIlroy’s got his mojo back

Consider how your attitude to a referee would be transformed if you realised the poor sod was being forced to do it. But how could the GAA make them do it, I hear you ask?

MY school reports could make weary reading.

OWEN McKenna had the perfect start to Derby final week when he won Monday’s Catunda Harry Champion Stakes final at Youghal with the Lorraine Moore owned Pablo Supreme.

ANOTHER major ended in anticlimax for Tiger Woods last night as a wide-open USPGA Championship built towards an exciting conclusion at Whistling Straits without the world number one.

NOT since the US Open Championship at Shinnecock Hills in 2003 has Pádraig Harrington finished in the top ten of a major championship.

STEVE COPPELL confirmed he is considering his future after Reading’s relegation to the Championship was confirmed last night, with the manager’s resignation expected to be confirmed early this week.

IN MORE years than I’d want to admit watching and reporting on Gaelic games, I’ve never witnessed anything like the scenes at the final whistle of Wednesday night’s game in Ennis.

IT ended up being Mike Weir’s tournament to lose and that’s exactly what he did when the pressure paralysed his putter.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has refused to say if she was aware of a plan to attack the character of Garda whistle-blower Maurice McCabe when she was minister for justice.