David Murphy is Munster senior bowling champion, after a brilliant second-half display against Gary Daly, on the historic Masseytown Road, in Macroom, yesterday.

The Munster senior championship will dominate bowling for the next few weeks, starting with both semi-finals at the weekend.

A man who repeatedly stabbed his mother during a vicious attack told gardaí that he just snapped after she told him to “fuck off”, a court has heard.