Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Cork 1-21 Waterford 3-19: An afternoon of affirmations played itself out in Thurles yesterday as Cork were once more found wanting when confronted by the energy and wit of Waterford, who delivered the better championship performance.

Wexford boss Liam Dunne has taken aim at pundits Michael Duignan and Ger Loughnane for remarks they made about his team two years ago.

All-Ireland winning club football coach Tony McEntee has given a sobering summary of Gaelic football, suggesting that players at all ages and grades aren’t "technically competent".

ALL-IRELAND SHC SEMI-FINAL:

Cork referee John Sexton have been omitted from this year’s Championship panel.

Donegal 2-10 Tyrone 0-10

Paris St Germain have roundly condemned the unsavoury incidents that marred the celebration of their first Ligue 1 crown in 19 years.

Paris St Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi is set to open talks with David Beckham about extending his stay in the French capital.

Winter training is an undeniably hard slog in London, but it’s almost become second nature to Brian McBrearty.

Jason Ryan last night resigned as Wexford football manager after five seasons in charge.

Three weeks ago, the Michael Stoute-trained Dank finished three parts of a length behind all-the-way winner Ladys First and she crosses swords with her conqueror once more in this afternoon's Group 3 Atalanta Stakes (3.25) at Sandown.

Ligue 1 side Marseille have announced that coach Didier Deschamps has left the club by mutual agreement.

Kilkenny captain Eoin Larkin believes there are outside forces intent on taking the physicality out of hurling.

Authorities in Bahrain opened an investigation today after the body of a man was found near the scene of clashes between protesters and the security forces.

Kilkenny forward Richie Hogan is facing a spell on the sidelines after sustaining a serious injury in yesterday's landslide league win over Galway.

THIS season’s hurler of the year Michael Fennelly admits he had doubts about his inter-county career with Kilkenny just two years ago.

CLARE manager Ger O’Loughlin believes the result of this evening’s Allianz Division 2 final with Limerick could have a major bearing on his players staying in Ireland.

Dublin 1-17 Kilkenny 3-11

CORK’S team for the short trip east to Dungarvan to play Waterford on Sunday shows three changes to the side that started in last weekend’s win over Galway.

RAFAEL BENITEZ’S Inter were made to work by Twente before Esteban Cambiasso broke the Dutch outfit’s resistance 10 minutes into the second half.

France coach Laurent Blanc has suggested a reduction in the number of teams in Ligue 1 may give his side a better chance of success on the international stage.

Though the three-year-old fillies take on the older generation in today’s Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket, it’s no more than a cautious step into the realms of all-aged competition.

The dates and times for the 15th and 16th rounds of the Magner's League have been confirmed.

Jenson Button set a searing pace once again for Brawn GP as he secured pole position for the Formula One newcomers in tomorrow’s Malaysian Grand Prix.

Wantaway Newcastle midfielder Charles N’Zogbia has issued a ’come and get me’ plea to Lyon.

SAFETY is paramount in any sport, but particularly in motorsport. From the start of next season, the HANS device will be compulsory in Irish rallying.

Monday

A crowd of several thousand Cork GAA supporters marched in Cork City last night to express their anger that an agreement has yet to be found in the ongoing dispute between the Cork County Board and its players.

Nearly half the workforce at a Belfast engineering company which was forced into administration tonight appeared on the verge of being saved.

Many immigrants hoped that rallies across the US would give new life to a movement struggling to win a way for 12 million people in America's shadows to eventually become citizens.

The DUP and Sinn Féin were making significant gains in the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections.

Lens consolidated second spot in Ligue 1 with a smash-and-grab victory over Marseille at the Stade Velodrome.

Double Formula One world champion Mika Hakkinen is to make a return to the sport by testing for former team McLaren tomorrow.

Michael Schumacher took pole position for the French Grand Prix today as Ferrari delivered a body blow to Renault on their home ground at Magny-Cours.

MARSEILLE president Christophe Bouchet has thanked the French football federation (FFF) for refusing to deliver a letter of release for Arsenal midfielder Mathieu Flamini.

BLITZING the opposition with a superb run through the third and final stage, Wexford’s Liam Wall and co driver Tommy Kelly (Ford Escort) took a dramatic last stage win on the Cooney Engineering/Esso Tipperary Rally.

FIA Formula 1, Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps, times and gid positions after qualifying.