Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has denied her legal team was instructed to “impugn the integrity” of whistleblower Maurice McCabe or to claim he was acting maliciously.

Wayne Rooney insists England can lift the World Cup next summer.

Liam Rushe says he owes Cork forward Pat Horgan an apology for striking him last weekend, admitting that a replay of the Croke Park incident looked ‘like a scene from Gladiator’.

Metalist Kharkiv 0Newcastle United 1(Newcastle win 1-0 on agg)

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

SCOTTISH CUP FINAL:

Now that the greatest series, in living memory, of the All- Ireland hurling championship has just concluded, it would be reasonable to expect that the main protagonists would come in for unqualified praise. Not so, however.

Summerhill 1-13 Na Fianna 1-10

Ian Baraclough yesterday insisted he’s had no contact with struggling English League One side Notts County after reports in a Nottingham newspaper linked the 42-year-old Sligo Rovers boss with the managerial vacancy.

More locally items of small antique furniture have emerged as a definite new trend.

Laois 1-22 Carlow 0-14

St Jude’s and Ballyboden St Enda’s progressed to the Dublin SHC semi-finals after overcoming Faughs and Cuala, respectively, at O’Toole Park yesterday.

Happiest man in Limerick on Saturday evening?

A man walked into a bank in Ireland during the Celtic Tiger and demanded €3m to set up a nightclub in Dublin, which he was granted with scarcely any background check, according to Robert Webb of Nottingham University, who is trying to figure out why this happened.

The Garda Ombudsman said it “does not anticipate difficulties” in its high-profile investigation into the penalty point controversy.

A campaigning British MP has called for the reinvestigation of the suspicious deaths more than 20 years ago of two whistleblowers who he believes had significant information relating to organised child abuse.

Joe Schmidt’s Ireland played safe, smart rugby in dispatching South Africa on Saturday and made a mockery of their underdog status with the bookmakers.

Here are some of the most memorable quotes from the Kerry politician.