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.

A VEC has asked Education Minister Ruairí Quinn to remove a committee member who helped to expose a number of financial problems within the group.

Champions Cork survived a stern test from Clare before emerging victorious 0-14 to 0-11 after extra-time, in yesterday’s thrilling National Camogie League Division 1 semi-final in Kilmallock.

He described it as ‘nitpicking’ afterwards, but there was no mistaking how flabbergasted John Cleary was by David Gough’s allocation of one minute of injury-time in Limerick on Saturday.

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Stoke midfielder Dean Whitehead believes there are few strikers in the top flight better than Peter Crouch at the moment.

Croatia captain Dario Srna has tipped Ireland to get a result against Spain on Thursday after praising Giovanni Trapattoni’s team following Sunday’s 3-1 win.

Cork selector Ger Cunningham says players and managers are looking for hurling referees to be more consistent in their officiating.

It ended, as expected, with a Donegal victory, but almost everything that preceded the final whistle in Cavan yesterday afternoon deprived us of our preconceptions about James McCartan’s team.

It took a teenager who emerged from the dressing room vicinity long after this All-Ireland qualifier had ended to voice what most among the home support were thinking as soon as the final whistle pierced the sky.