Despite the relentless rise of Ireland’s coffee culture, we are still the second-largest consumers of tea in the world.

Irish showjumper Darragh Kenny has claimed a place on the podium at today’s €200,000 five-star Longines Grand Prix at La Baule in France.

Pet Peeve Corner: the GAA and statistics.

Long before Jim Furyk became a major champion and 2018 US captain of the Ryder Cup, he tried to Monday Qualify for the Buick Classic at Knollwood Country Club in Elmsford, NY.

A former club captain back in the 1950s, and with a son (John) involved in a variety of roles from captain to president to chairman, Don’s was a voice entitled to be heard.

Glasgow will have the benefit of home advantage at Celtic Park after romping past Ulster 50-20 to claim a place in the Guinness PRO14 Grand Final.

THE DECLAN BOGUE INTERVIEW: Twenty-five years ago, Pete McGrath led Down to their fifth and his second All-Ireland title. A year of rifts and bridge building; of violence and sorrow, of one magnificent match, and of vindication.

Jenny Egan, who made history last August as the first Irish athlete to medal at an ICF Senior Canoe Sprint World Championships with a bronze, is looking forward to a busy summer, starting next week with the first World Cup event in Poznan. She spoke to Daragh Ó Conchúir.

Galway’s Ronan Mullarney will take a healthy four-shot lead into today’s second round at the Flogas Irish Amateur Open Championship after setting the pace with a course-record and career-low 62 in Sligo.

For Felipe Contepomi it’s on a par with River Plate v Boca Juniors; for CJ Stander and Johann van Graan a reminder of Bulls versus Stormers games.

The frustration Leinster players and coaches felt after last weekend was absolute. That stuff is hard to internalise. You can’t have enough of those stars on your shirt.

This weekend, some 60 members of the Mehigan family are gathering in the Cork parish of Ardfield.

Louise Galvin and her Ireland Women’s Sevens team-mates get the penultimate round of this season’s HSBC World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series underway in Canada tonight with qualification for next year’s Tokyo Olympics at the forefront of everyone’s minds.

Mick McCarthy has praised the professionalism of the support the FAI provides to his staff and team, saying the difference between now and when he finished his first stint as Ireland manager 17 years ago is like “night and day”.

Donal Lenihan on the players and performances that could shade today’s meeting of the European superpowers in Newcastle.

Alex Goode feels he is the victim of a witch hunt at Saracens as the club’s all-for-one, one-for-all attitude goes out of the window when it comes to the squad’s fantasy football league.

Dig around through the entrails of Leinster’s last ten years of European triumphs and there are surprisingly few threads connecting them all.

A modest proposal: Uefa should now do the decent thing and cancel this year’s Champions League final.

They once were kings, these two houses both alike in dignity. They had heavy artillery and high explosive and machine guns and sniper rifles and famous generals and crack marksmen and plentiful reserves.

I’ve tried the whole ‘just do your bit’ approach; the recycling, the reusing, the reducing meat consumption, the Keep Cup, and the avoiding of single-use plastics and polyester clothing, writes Joyce Fegan.