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AN AGREEMENT HAS been reached to play the outstanding provincial and All-Ireland series games from the 2020 club camogie championship season from mid-November to December 2021. Mediation talks took place last night between the Camogie Association and representatives of clubs still involved in the 2020 senior, intermediate and junior championships. The42 understands that negotiations went…

DUNDALK HAVE confirmed that staff contracts will be honoured after the postponement of the SSE Airtricity League season.  These are extremely uncertain times for Irish football clubs, with Cork City announcing that they will stop paying wages after this week, while Sligo Rovers revealed that they are temporarily laying off management, players and administrative staff. …

AILISH CONSIDINE BELIEVES that the AFL Women’s league has become one of the standard-bearers for inclusiveness for LGBTI+ athletes. But the Adelaide Crows star feels that male sports across the world have a lot of work still to do when it comes to an open culture around sexuality. Clare’s Considine made history in her debut…

WEST HAM’S PLAYERS have agreed to defer a percentage of their wages during the coronavirus pandemic. Co-chairmen David Sullivan and David Gold and their fellow shareholders are also investing £30 million into the club, it emerged on Friday. The Premier League outfit announced the short-term cost-reducing measures to allow them to cope with paying non-playing…

Updated Jun 10th 2021, 8:00 PM ARMAGH ENTER A fight to retain their Division 1 status as they clash with Roscommon in the relegation play-off on Sunday at the Athletic Grounds. Having led the Orchard to their first season in the top flight since 2012, Kieran McGeeney will be reluctant to make it a brief…

OFFALY AND DERRY will share the Division 3 title after winning their respective semi-finals yesterday. The GAA were reluctant to have divisional finals involving any of the 14 teams who are out in championship a week later. The Faithful begin their Leinster SFC campaign against Louth on 27 June, ruling out a showdown in Croke Park…

PREMIER LEAGUE SIDE Sheffield United on Saturday said they were furloughing some permanent and casual staff but will continue to pay them in full during their enforced leave. Employees affected are those who are unable to perform their regular duties due to the coronavirus shutdown. However, the club insisted it will not resort to using…

MEATH ALL-IRELAND winner Bernard Flynn has resigned as manager of the county’s U20 football team. Flynn has made the decision due to the unavailability of senior players, as he was preparing for their upcoming Leinster championship campaign.   An All-Ireland senior winner in 1987 and 1988, Flynn was appointed as Meath U20 boss in January…

CHANGES ARE AT a minimum for tomorrow’s Lidl National League Division 1 final between arch-rivals Dublin and Cork at Croke Park [throw-in 7.30pm, live on TG4]. Dublin boss Mick Bohan has made just one change for the top-flight showdown – a repeat of December’s All-Ireland final – with title holders from 2019, Cork, showing an…

IT IS 29 weeks since the two sides produced storylines that caught the national sporting imagination and lit up the football championship. The rise of Tipperary and Cavan occured on the same remarkable Sunday afternoon last November. Tipperary enjoyed a breakthrough after 85 years in Munster, Cavan ending a 23-year wait to reign in Ulster…