Jennifer Melia at Enterprise Ireland aims to help women to set up their own firms, writes Trish Dromey

Waterford won their first Munster MFC game in five years as they stormed back from six points down to surprise Clare in Dungarvan tonight.

Saturday’s European Champions Cup semi-final against holders Saracens should mark the most important day in Duncan Williams’ professional rugby career.

The mother of a boy with cerebral palsy who was awarded €5,500 by the Workplace Relations Commission said her family was “gutted” when his school would not allow him to bring his assistance dog with him.

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A convicted rapist who told a woman he was going to take her up to the mountains and chop her up has been jailed for eight years.

Meath 1-14 DCU 1-14: Meath will have key attackers Stephen Bray and Mickey Newman available for their O’Byrne Cup clash with Dublin.

January is usually a bit of a dreary month so we could all do with some cheering up.

A man who carried out a sustained violent attack on his ex-girlfriend during which he bit her ear has been sentenced to four years.

Fuerty 1-11 Two Mile House 5-7

A drug dealer and addict caught with heroin and cocaine valued at €55,000 nine years ago has been spared jail because he is dying.

Four singers of promise will join Cara O’Sullivan Celine Byrne, and Regina Nathan for concerts this week, says Jo Kerrigan

A town councillor has been fined €500 after being convicted of falsely claiming expenses for a conference he did not attend.

A former Fianna Fáil councillor has been charged with deception in relation to the claiming of conference expenses.

London always held the upperhand over Roscommon in an entertaining encounter at Athleague.

Meath maintained their hopes of gaining an Allianz Hurling Division 2B final tilt with Kildare when proving too strong for relegated Roscommon in a one-sided clash at Navan’s Páirc Tailteann.

Rockwell College put their Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup title on the line at Musgrave Park today (3pm) when they go head-to-head with Christian Brothers College, Cork for a place in this year’s final.

A 25-YEAR-OLD man had to have his leg amputated as result of injuries he sustained after he was struck by a car taking part in an international rally event, the High Court heard yesterday.

THE battle for glory in the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup cranks up again today, with three quarter-finals down for decision, the fourth going ahead tomorrow.

THE fallout from their controversial meeting in the decider three years ago has finally been consigned to history after Portumna and Loughrea played out a game in Pearse Stadium yesterday that was relatively incident-free – apart from the issuing of one red card.

A socialite who cavorted with a fellow passenger on a flight from India was so drunk she was “on the verge of being dangerous”, the captain said today.

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS College produced a masterful display to claim a record 28th Munster Schools Senior Cup title in yesterday’s centenary showpiece at Musgrave Park.

ONE hundred years after lifting the inaugural Munster Schools Senior Cup, Christian Brothers College, Cork could bring perfect symmetry to the record books if they prevail in tomorrow’s final, sponsored by Avonmore Milk, at Musgrave Park (3pm).

THE Avonmore Milk Munster Schools’ Senior Cup is down to the last four with a mouth-watering semi-final between CBC and PBC at Musgrave Park today (3pm).

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IRELAND will get one last shot at redemption when they take on Italy in the final outing of the U18 Six Nations Festival at Cork Institute of Technology today (2.30pm).

Michael Kelliher and David McSharry will form a new centre partnership for the Ireland U18 Schools team that takes on Scotland tomorrow and are two of six changes, two of which are in personnel, to the side that lost to Wales in their opening game of the U18 Six Nations Festival.

PBC CORK’s Brian O’Hara has the honour of leading Ireland out before his hometown crowd for their opening game of the U18 Six Nations festival tonight (Musgrave Park, 7.30pm).

AFTER the shock exit of holders PBC, Christian Brothers College find themselves as hot favourites to add another Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup title to an impressive haul of trophies won over the decades.

PBC head coach Don Buckley, along with his coaching ticket of Paul Barr (formerly of St Michael’s) and Highfield’s Steve Forde, have now led Pres to Senior Cup success in two of the last three deciders.

A RIVALRY that borders on legend should see an expected 8,000 crowd descend on Musgrave Park today for the meeting of age-old Cork schools Christian Brothers College and Presentation Brothers College in the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup final (kick off 3pm).

IONA Technologies boss Peter Zotto says the group’s new software solution, Artix, will return the company to the success it enjoyed with CORBA, the package that launched it worldwide.

Two women who tore out another woman’s hair and set it on fire when they were behaving "like mad dogs", have been remanded on continuing bail for sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Guitar legend Eric Clapton is celebrating after becoming a dad for the fifth time - at the age of 59.

Kevin Melia has retired as a non-executive director of the Irish Stock Exchange listed Horizon group from today.

NUIG 0-18 UL 1-5

Munster 19 Ulster 13

IONA Technologies has significantly reduced its third quarter loss to $2 million, leaving the software company poised to return to profits by the end of this year.

GARDAÍ in an accident blackspot area will set up hundreds of checkpoints over the coming month in an effort to cut fatalities.

MOTORISTS who speed, drink-drive or are abusive towards others on the road now face the added threat of court, endorsement and fines on foot of complaints from their fellow road users.

THE gangland killing of a major heroin dealer in Dublin’s south inner city may have been over a drug deal gone wrong or a row over territory, sources said yesterday.

Meath 2-13 Kerry 1-11