Waterford hurling supporters won’t be too keen to recall the 2019 season, but even in a disappointing year there were highlights.

Waterford taliswoman for the past two decades Michelle Ryan has called time on her inter-county career.

Limerick manager John Kiely paid tribute to his panel yesterday for maintaining their standards since winning last year’s All-Ireland success, saying “all the credit goes to the players” for kicking on to reach the Allianz League final.

A comfortable preliminary round victory for Muskerry in the Cork SFC (Colleges/Divisions section) at Páirc Uí Rinn tonight.

Everton scored three times in the opening 22 minutes at Turf Moor to end a winless five-match run and push Burnley deeper into trouble.

An emotional Lee Westwood fought back tears after claiming his first European Tour title since 2014. It was his third victory in the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa.

Corn Ui Mhuiri holders Pobalscoil Chorca Duibhne stumbled into the last four of this season’s competition after Ruarí Ó Beaglaoich’s late goal saw them beat St Flannan’s 1-5 to 1-3 in Killeedy.

Manchester United dumped holders Chelsea out of the FA Cup with a 2-0 fifth-round win at Stamford Bridge to leave Maurizio Sarri's position as Blues head coach ever more precarious.

Ballyhale Shamrocks weren’t supposed to make it out of Kilkenny, never mind Leinster, this year.

Ruairc, who will turn 11 on Wednesday, broke into tears of joy as he was filmed by his parents opening a letter explaining he would be travelling from his home in Cork, Ireland to attend the Toffees’ Premier League clash with Bournemouth.

There wasn’t much harmony between Tyrone and Armagh, who breathed new life into an old rivalry during a fiery Dr McKenna Cup final on Saturday night, yet afterwards the managers were united in delight at the scrapping of the handpass rule.

A Bulgarian circus worker who had sex with an underage girl in Cork has received a prison sentence of two years with six months suspended.

Almost five years into his reign, at a cost of €10m in wages, Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane are, apparently, laying building blocks for the Ireland squad.

Prominent campaigner Colm O'Gorman has said the Pope's comments on the failure of the church to tackle clerical abuse in Ireland was a "shameful deflection of responsibility".

It’s the pinnacle of every referee’s career — the All-Ireland final — and you want to match what is a marvellous occasion with an equally marvellous performance.