Joe McNamee shares some upcoming food events

A whirlwind display in extra time from Naomh Ciarán was enough to secure the Offaly champions a place in their first ever All-Ireland Intermediate Championship Final, as they sprinted clear of Cork’s Inch Rovers in Ferbane.

Horses are definitely an obsession for me.

Two Presentation sisters died in a double drowning incident after going for a swim at Inch Strand, in Co Kerry on a fine summer’s evening in a calm sea, the inquest into their death was told yesterday.

A seaside town in Cork has been dealt a severe blow as its main strand looks set to be shut to swimmers next summer over water safety concerns.

Whitechurch 5-5 Inch 2-4

St. Val’s 0-11 Inch Rovers 1-07

Carnacon (Mayo) 0-14 Inch Rovers (Cork) 0-10

Clare champions, The Banner, go in search of their first Munster Senior A ladies football championship title tonight in Kilmallock (8pm).

Inch Rovers 0-14 Donoughmore 0-9

Tonight Donoughmore bid for a 14th Senior A county title when they face Inch Rovers in the Tesco Homegrown Ladies SFC final at Páirc Uí Rinn (7.45pm).

Ten years ago, DJ Carey was preparing for a hurling season that would see him win his third of five All-Ireland medals.

A LATE point by Yvonne Twomey saw Donoughmore win the Cork Evening Echo Ladies SFC final by a solitary point in Cork IT yesterday.

ALL-IRELAND U-14 Féile na nGael champions, Galway’s Turloughmore were pipped 0-6 to 0-5 by Taghmon/Camross of Wexford in the opening round of matches of this year’s competition in Co Galway yesterday.

CORK dual star Mary O’Connor kicked five points as Inch Rovers were crowned Tesco All-Ireland Ladies senior club football champions for the very first time yesterday.

CARNACON and Inch Rovers will meet in the All-Ireland Club senior championship final for the third time in four years after semi-finals wins yesterday.

A GREAT game to win, but a terrible way to lose. The sense of euphoria shared by holders Carnacon with their supporters on the field at the finish contrasted sharply with the heartbreak experienced by Inch Rovers in yesterday’s VHI Healthcare All-Ireland Ladies club SFC final in Tullamore.

Inch Rovers (Cork) 2-14 Ballymacarbery (Waterford) 0-8

NO FURTHER coastal protection works will be carried out by Kerry County Council until it receives €2 million it is owed by the Government, the council has warned.

ACTION is being taken to provide coastal protection for Inch Beach in Co Kerry where David Lean filmed part of Ryan’s Daughter.

IT MAY seem ironic, but developers of golf links in sensitive coastal areas are hoping Environment Minister John Gormley will listen more favourably to their case than Fianna Fáil ministers have in recent years.

THE saga surrounding the building of golf links in sensitive dune and coastal areas continues, amid concerns about damage to a fragile environment and wildlife habitat.

TELEPHONE evidence in the Wayne O’Donoghue trial was crucial in establishing the whereabouts of Robert Holohan on the day of his death.

Adrian McGuinness is hoping Timmy Murphy can work the oracle on Victram in a fiercely-competitive renewal of the Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown on Sunday.