An Bord Pleanála has approved an ambitious €40m remediation plan to transform one of the State’s worst environmental disaster zones into a large public park.

1. Diarmuid Connolly is a top-class footballer

Forget the Six Nations and settling selection grudges, Saturday night’s clash between Leinster and Munster is all about league points at the top of the RaboDirect Pro12, insists Damien Varley.

Alan Shatter prides himself on being a reforming minister who’s not afraid to take on vested interests and to act quickly to sort things out.

Fan rings 999 to complain about Man U form

All-Ireland-winning manager Davy Fitzgerald has called for the introduction of a second referee during games to cut out the “mangling” of players.

Dublin Writers Festival hit the right note with an engaging programme, says Orlagh Ní Arrachtain.

The Winding Stair,

Corofin 1-12 Milltown 1-09

WE ARE driving to Páirc Uí Rinn to see a lad we know play in a Cork under-21’s football final.

In truth, the obituaries could have been written once the whistle went in Astana. The sombre atmosphere before kick-off in Vienna was unmistakable and the defeat was, in reality, merely an additional detail.

Kilmichael 2-09 Kilmurry 0-09

Classical: Berlin Philharmonie, Live in HD

The head of the GAA’s referees’ association, Pat McEnaney, has described the recent rescinding of red cards as “very disappointing”.

Team selection may still be up in the air following Munster’s embarrassing defeat to Edinburgh but whoever faces Gloucester at Thomond Park on Saturday, head coach Rob Penney will send out a side desperate to atone for that shock Heineken Cup defeat.

Team selection may still be up in the air following Munster’s embarrassing defeat to Edinburgh but whoever faces Gloucester at Thomond Park on Saturday, head coach Rob Penney will send out a side desperate to atone for that shock Heineken Cup defeat.

A prequel to Monsters, Inc. (2001), the animated tale Monsters University (G) takes us back in time to discover how Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) became the fearsome, child-scaring beasts we all know and love.

Tell me again what pride comes before? Well, almost… Brendan’s in a good place right now, and the Miles Davis of own-trumpet-blowers wasn’t slow in telling everyone.

Thursday lunchtime in Ireland’s HQ in Kildare, and all the talk is of the side’s new centre combination.

On Monday, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the Government will shortly take decisions on Irish Water that will provide greater clarity about the utility and the charges the public will face. The mind boggles.