Kieran Sadlier’s hat-trick was the centre-piece as Cork City safely advanced to the semi-finals of the FAI Cup with victory over Longford Town.

A fourth straight All-Ireland title for Dublin and a sixth this decade turned out to be their easiest as they swallowed Tyrone’s early promise and made the final their own.

Hilary Fennell meets TV presenter and Chef Takashi Miyazaki.

The game from the gods with a Championship to boot, selecting All-Stars right now is a difficult exercise. There’s the increased quality obviously; so too the additional number of games from last year’s competition.

Ryder Cup veteran Phil Mickelson hopes his long association with the event did not end in a watery grave, but accepts he may have played his last match for the United States.

Leinster have been nothing if not diplomatic this week.

Forget tradition: Dublin’s forward Niamh McEvoy will not be exchanging shirts with her opposite number after today’s TG4 All-Ireland senior final.

Dublin manager Mick Bohan is hoping that last Sunday’s A versus B training game will be the hour that gives his side the edge to claim back-to-back TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football titles for the first time in the county’s history.

On the night the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division title returned to Oriel Park, Dundalk FC served up a five-star display against managerless Sligo Rovers.

So football is not coming home after all.

The law of averages might be against Kilkenny but then they might argue theirs is the stronger commandment based on Cody’s ability to get it right second time around.

It’s a rare bird, to be sure — a Rochestown Road home in Cork, modern, detached, on half an acre or more of grounds, along with waterfrontage, and a lofted boathouse with overhead apartment.

Conventional wisdom tells us that Amy Foley’s goal for Kerry in this month’s TG4 Munster final could hardly have arrived at a worse time.

Referees development committee chairman Barrett acknowledged a mistake was made in awarding Tipperary a second goal in Sunday’s Munster SHC Round 3 game in the Gaelic Grounds.