I’M writing these words in the last days of August. Here in rural Ireland, it’s a time to get busy with those summer jobs that get the home place prepared for the dark winter months.

THE hopes of Palestinian children planning to travel to Ireland for a summer of sport amid the destruction and devastation surrounding them have been dashed after their visa applications were rejected.

DALRIADA club member, Cathal Ó Gaillín, has just returned from the occupied West Bank in Palestine, coaching the Moataz Sassour GAA Club

DONEGAL man and Dalriada GFC player, Cathal Ó Gaillín, ran 150km in Aberdeen this December to raise funds for GAA Palestine