Dylan Walsh struck a dramatic winner from a free out near the sideline three minutes into stoppage time to secure a one-point victory for Sarsfields in the first round of the Cork IHC at Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

Mayfield 1-16 St Finbarr’s 2-9

AIB All-Ireland Club JHC final

Mayfield (Cork) 1-14 Calry St Joseph’s (Sligo) 1-7: Mayfield are one step away from AIB All-Ireland Club Junior Hurling Championship glory after this workmanlike victory over dogged Calry St Joseph’s.

Intermediate Football Championship final

All-Ireland Junior B Hurling final: Shanballymore 0-17 Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry 1-12

Fermoy 0-7 Mayfield 0-7 (Cork IFC Final): The more it went on, the more you thought it had to be some sort of rope-a-dope tactic.

Cork IFC: Mayfield 0-13 Rockchapel 0-5

Mayfield 2-9 Glanmire 2-5: Mayfield began their Cork County IFC odyssey this season with a four-point first-round victory in a local derby against Glanmire at Watergrasshill on Saturday night.

Peter Pringle was condemned to death for the murder of two gardaí, but was freed on appeal. In his book he claimed a miscarriage of justice. Not everyone agrees, writes Michael Clifford

CIT 1-26 St Finbarr’s 1-12

A tally of 3-2 from full-forward Conor Murphy re-ignited Ballinora’s Cork Premier IFC ambitions as they saw off Mayfield at Ballincollig on Saturday.

Last year’s defeated Cork County SHC finalists CIT advanced to the fourth round of this year’s competition as they saw off Carbery at Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

Clyda Rovers 0-15 Mayfield 1-5

County senior panellist Liam Shorten was the hero of Ballingeary’s two point victory over Mayfield in the opening round of this Cork Premier IFC tie at Kilmurry on Saturday night.

SATURDAY

IT’S not surprising that the Coomhola Borlin Valley has, over the long years, attracted an eclectic mixture of residents.

YOU could read the story in the faces of the fans.

HE may have five Seandun junior hurling medals in his pocket but divisional glory no longer sates Dan Lucey’s appetite for success.

TODAY

ST VINCENT’S moved into the last four of the Cork Premier IFC with a hard-fought yet deserved win over northside rivals Mayfield at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday evening.

LAST year’s Cork Premier IFC semi-finalists St Vincent’s came undone in the first round against Nemo Rangers on Saturday night at Páirc Uí Rinn.

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore has played tribute to party TD Liz McManus, who has announced she will not contest the next general election.

A 10-YEAR court battle rooted in a proposal to convert a milking parlour into a pet crematorium has ended with a Supreme Court decision ordering Wicklow County Council to pay substantial costs of a row between councillors and the county manager.

An investigation is underway after a fire at a house that was to become the home of the family of a convicted sex offender.

A POINT on the call of full-time in extra-time by Paudric O’Mahony earned Waterford a draw in this throbbing, absorbing ESB Munster MHC semi-final at Pairc Ui Chaoimh on Saturday night.

Hundreds of Irish households are still enduring severe cuts to their water supply as local authorities work to repair leaks.

A SHOP owner in Arklow, Co Wicklow, was stabbed to death last night after he foiled a robbery.

TERRIFIED hotel guests were locked in a fridge during an early morning armed raid.

STENA LINE reports a rise in the numbers of people booking short breaks to Britain by sea.

FIANNA Fáil spent a staggering €3.65 million, or €4.25 on each and every one of the 858,600 votes it got, in general election 2007, a report from the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) shows.

WELL, we may have admired the independent candidate in Laois-Offaly, John Bracken, for two things — his amazing head of hair and the fact that he had penned his own song.

An Post has today apologised to a Labour candidate after his election leaflets were dropped through letterboxes stapled to voters’ polling cards.

LABOUR Party councillor Nicky Kelly is set to face court accused of a series of road traffic offences next month, including one of dangerous driving.

CALLING for the political exclusion of Sinn Féin over the Northern Bank robbery, Denis Hurley (Irish Examiner letters, January 17) say that PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde “is not one to make outlandish statements without proof to back them up”.

WITH horse racing now mired in scandal and allegations of race-fixing, wise punters might be diverting their attention to politics.

ON Saturday, January 10, Labour party leader Pat Rabbitte called on Justice Minister Michael McDowell to “stop delaying” the appointment of a Garda ombudsman — a statement which I tend to agree with despite the fact that I am neither a Labour supporter nor a fan of Pat Rabbitte’s.

Labour Councillor Nicky Kelly has decided not to challenge the outcome of the General Election in Co Wicklow last year.

The High Court will today decide whether or not the Minister for Health, Micheál Martin, breached the statutory limit on spending when he contested the general election last year in the Cork South Central constituency.

PETITIONS seeking to declare the Cork South Central and Wicklow general election results null and void may yet fail, the High Court heard yesterday.

IT WILL be very difficult for any defeated candidate to challenge the seat of a sitting TD following the latest Supreme Court ruling, former Environment Minister Brendan Howlin claimed yesterday.

Whatever short-term implications may flow from yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on election spending rules, it should help to make the playing pitch more level in future elections.

THREE candidates who were narrowly defeated in the general election are considering legal challenges against any TDs found to have broken official election spending limits.