As you would expect, Kieran McGeeney fronted up to this latest setback.

CONNACHT SFC SEMI-FINAL REPLAY:

Another of the unfortunate legacies — what a long, well-polished list that is — of our nation’s time as a colony is a visceral distaste for “informers”. That, however, did not prevent a great number of our countrymen or women being just that.

They say “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it”.

Waterford Institute of Technology’s financial officer raised concerns with the college’s former president Kieran Byrne about his travel expenses a decade before lavish spending cost him his job, TDs have been told.

Reigning kingpins Edenderry crashed out of the Offaly senior football championship on Saturday at O’Connor Park, Tullamore as Ross Brady’s brilliant 55th minute goal helped Clara secure a semi-final victory.

Declan O’Brien’s spot kick separated the sides at Hunky Dorys Park last night as Drogheda United hung on for all three points against a spirited Bohemians side.

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Payments to players in Irish club rugby will be outlawed from September 2014 as the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) effectively seeks to return the domestic game to its amateur roots.

Booed like a B-movie villain at the Saturday morning picture show, and embraced by old foes at the end of the reel come Saturday evening, Paul O’Connell got through another indefatigable 80 minutes at rugby’s highest level to end what must have been a trying two weeks for the Munster icon.

Mickey Harte’s instinct when Marty Duffy blew the final whistle was to make a beeline for the referee and ask why he had failed to award Tyrone a free seconds earlier after Sean Cavanagh was bundled to the floor.

The referee who missed Thierry Henry’s infamous handball effectively ended his own career with the decision which ended Ireland’s World Cup dreams.

Suspended Tyrone pair Conor Gormley and Martin Penrose have requested a hearing with the GAA’s Central Hearings Committee.

The dearth of top-class umpires in Munster finally reared its head as a Division One men’s game was unable to be played due to the absence of sufficiently experienced officials.

Skibbereen townhouse is fully renovated and extended, with excellent use of materials, writes Tommy Barker

Tyrone secretary Dominic McCaughey stoked the flames of the county’s rivalry with Kerry in his annual report.

More punitive penalties for individuals and companies involved in white-collar crime are among a series of recommendations made by the former Director of Corporate Enforcement, Paul Appleby, to improve the detection and punishment of reckless and fraudulent behaviour.

When Fernando Torres’ goal hit the net, I literally held my head in my hands in stunned and silent disbelief before going absolutely mental, joyous screaming and punching the air with utter abandonment.

If Motherwell fail to beat Kilmarnock at Rugby Park today, the Hoops can win the title at the home of their greatest rivals for the first time since 1967.

Baby Sergio O’Connor, a twin with an award-winning smile, will travel to Boston with his parents on Monday for a life-changing operation.