"Medical opinion is that I should not play again." The bright rugby career of Ireland's Ciaran Scally comes to a premature end.

"I think all 12 of us think we're the best players in the world," America's Jeff Maggert adds to the war of words in the Ryder Cup countdown earlier this week.

"The place is in gloom. Johnstown parish is in gloom." County secretary Pat Dunphy on the violent attack on Kilkenny hurler P J Delaney which left him seriously ill in hospital.