O’Donovan Rossa GAA Club is investing €150,000 to get back to winning Cork and All-Ireland titles, says club chairman Pat Fitzgerald.

The centenary of the Easter Rising leader Thomas Ashe’s death will be marked with a State commemoration in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery next Friday.

Cork’s progression to the All-Ireland U21 final, on Saturday, April 30, looks set to disrupt local football championship fixtures.

New car sales grew by 30% last year as industry figureheads said the motor sector was helping to drive employment.

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Scheduled to play their Sigerson Cup game against Queen’s University in Belfast, the management team of Galway and Mayo Institute of Technology made the sensible decision to book a hotel.

Antrim senior captain Neil McManus has expressed anger after the county’s U21s were deprived of the services of Chris McGuinness for Saturday’s historic Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland semi-final victory over Wexford.

O’Donovan Rossa 1-13 Avondhu 1-09

CAMOGIE President Joan O’Flynn is confident the decision to hold their All-Ireland club finals in Croke Park next March will be vindicated.

Labour MEP Proinsias de Rossa is calling on the Government to initiate legal action against Israel in light of the attack on the aid convoy last Monday and the boarding of the MV Rachel Corrie.

National League Division 2 champions Clare got their All-Ireland Gala Junior Camogie Championship campaign off to a perfect start with a hard-fought 0-10 to 0-7 victory against Offaly at Cusack Park today.

NO promotion to chase, no relegation to fear, no provincial championship for the guts of another two months. Neither side had much to gain or lose in south Armagh yesterday and until a dramatic last 10 minutes, it showed.

THE Camogie Association is not budging on the venue for the All-Ireland senior club final between St. Lachtain’s from Kilkenny and Antrim side O’Donovan Rossa.

THE men of St Gall’s go into Friday’s All-Ireland Club Final as everybody’s underdogs but, by now, they would not have it any other way.

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ALL-Ireland titles are on the line and final berths up for grabs on a busy club championship weekend of Ladies football and camogie.

GOALS from Ger McCarthy and Daniel O’Donovan in the opening 10 minutes proved decisive as Dohenys marched into the Evening Echo Cork Co SFC semi-final with a 2-9 to 1-8 win over O’Donovan Rossa at Drimoleague yesterday.

Three of the players involved in next week's AIB All-Ireland Club finals picked up Provincial Player awards in Dublin yesterday.

AS the competitive hurling season finally kicks into gear for the 2005 season, it’s all systems go in the club semi-finals this weekend.

O'Donovan Rossa lifted the Four Seasons Cup this afternoon at Casement Park and kept the Ulster Hurling title in Antrim as they defeated Down champions Ballygalet 0-16 to 0-14.

Courcey Rovers 1-14 Ballincollig 1-9

THERE was a time when county championship success meant rounds. Not of the pitch, but of pints and of pubs, with chests out, heads held high, and the all-important cup in tow.

Mallow 2-9 Castlehaven 1-10

CITY club Na Piarsaigh are the only side capable of breaking west Cork’s stranglehold on the Permanent TSB Cork county senior football championship.

O’Donovan Rossa v Avondhu, Kilmurry, 8 pm

Dublin MEP Pronsias de Rossa has said the government’s claim that EU competition law prohibits state aid for struggling airlines is not true.