Tributes have been paid to a well-known former Tyrone GAA trainer who has died at the age of 47.
Fergal McCann, who hailed from Augher, was part of Mickey Harte s management team when the Red Hand County clinched the All-Ireland Football title in 2005 and 2008.
Mr McCann also worked as a schools coach for Tyrone GAA but was best known for his key role with Harte s squad.
His stint with the Red Hands included helping guide them to three Ulster Championship titles.
His passing was announced last night by Tyrone GAA and Tyrone County chairperson, Michael Kerr, who said in the Facebook post that Mr McCann was a true gentleman in life even in the white hot seat of championship battles .
The Late Late Show looks back at some reaction to the early years of Irish radio.
There was a time when the wireless was one of the most exciting things in our lives. Fifty years since the launch of an Irish national radio station Gay Byrne reviews some of the controversies that Radio Éireann encountered.
Radio Éireann, this year, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. 2RN went on the air in 1926.
Fifty years on, radio in Ireland has often been the subject of controversy. Looking back through newspaper headlines in the days before television, there are many examples of how people got just as worked up about the things they heard on the radio as they now do about what they watch on television.
Paul Rouse: Protestants and the GAA in rural Ireland
The lived reality of life in the GAA mean that overt Catholicism could be witnessed at every level of the Association
The Archbishop of Cashel & Emly, and Patron of the GAA, Dr Dermot Clifford stands on the Hill before he blessed it at the official opening of the redeveloped Hill 16 and Nally Stand in 2005. Picture: Ray McManus
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What has been the relationship between Protestants and the GAA in the Republic of Ireland?
After all, for all the talk of the decline of the importance of religion in Ireland, it is the case that (at least until Covid struck) some teams go to mass together on the morning of matches, that players talk of going to mass and even that the rosary is said in the dressing room before games.
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At the end of last year s championship, as the capital toasted its five-in-a-row success, we might have thought we d have seen the last of the Dublin-Mayo finals - for a few years anyway.
The summary manner in which Dublin had dispatched a tired-looking Mayo side gave the 2019 semi-final an end of an era feel.
It was assumed that Kerry would now pick up the baton and become Dublin s chief rivals for the next half-decade or so.
This may yet happen.
But after giving last year s final a real rattle and winning the National League title, Peter Keane s team proceeded to tumble through the trap-door in Munster.