MARTIN SLUDDEN will have to wait to take charge of his first senior inter-county championship game since last July’s controversial Leinster final after the GAA announced a change to the referee arrangements for next Sunday’s Ulster quarter-final between Cavan and Donegal with Sligo whistler Marty Duffy now set to officiate the match.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan was just whistling past the Republican plot in Glasnevin on his way to the Dáil chamber yesterday afternoon.

EDDIE O’Sullivan has hit out at accusations by Felipe Contepomi that Ireland set out to deliberately unsettle the Argentineans during last Saturday’s test match — and told the Puma No 10: “I’m disappointed in you.”

JEREMY PHIPPS resigned from his position as director of security at the Jockey Club last night, conceding in a letter to senior steward Christopher Spence that his role had become ‘‘untenable’’ and that he had caused ‘‘embarrassment, for which I apologise most sincerely’’.

WEXFORD hurling club Oylegate-Glebrien, which is home club to county chairman Sean Quirke, are demanding a full investigation into an assault on one of their players during the weekend.

The Taoiseach has refused to be drawn on reports public servants may face a cut in pensions.

Ireland left Wembley with the win this evening, but one of the Romanian players left with a prize of his own - a brand new fiancee.

“The crowd were amazing, I wish we put on a better performance for them.”

All those arrested are men and all remain in custody.

Ian Madigan’s tears at the end of Ireland’s victory over France this evening summed up what the win meant to the team, and what it cost them.

Waterford’s Noel Connors tweeted Eden Hazard after their Allianz Hurling League victory on Sunday.

There will be plenty of time for celebrating after the final whistle folks, remember that.

Cue predictable gloating from the usual suspects.

Dundalk have put some extra daylight between themselves and second-placed Cork City.

The shemozzle kicked off during a final at Páirc Tailteann in Navan.

GAA bosses have launched an investigation after a top inter-county referee was violently