An eight-year-old schoolgirl has beaten students more than twice her age to become the overall winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition.

Down 1-13 Tipperary 0-11

Kerry and Mayo will meet for the second time in the space of seven days in next Sunday’s Division 1 semi-final in Croke Park.

The Leinster squad trained in UCD this afternoon ahead of Saturday's Heineken Cup Round 4 encounter against Bath in the Aviva Stadium (KO: 6pm)

New York 1-11 Roscommon 3-21

Six-year-old Layla Karpuz has been crowned Ireland’s top doodler after winning Google’s third Irish Doodle 4 Google competition.

Cavan 0-10 Monaghan 1-18, Longford 3-20 Leitrim 1-9, South Down 2-21 Fermanagh 2-18

A SENIOR ally of German chancellor Angela Merkel resigned from the cabinet yesterday amid allegations of a cover-up of an air strike that killed civilians in Afghanistan when he was defence minister.

Meath's Stephen Bray has been ruled out of Sunday's All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-final tie with Mayo, after the Royals attacker failed in his quest to overturn his four-week ban last night.

FOUR weeks on and that searing pain is struggling to go away. Limerick football has endured plenty of trauma during their 103-year search for a Munster title and the most recent provincial final setback hurt as much as anything that went before.

Offaly 4-22 Kilkenny 1-06

Rapper/actor Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith protested against the rise in street violence in his hometown this weekend by joining a march for peace.

MICHAEL Hourigan, who will be hoping to celebrate Gold Cup success with Beef and Salmon at Cheltenham on Thursday, got the week off to a good start at the Premier Harriers Hunt point-to-point at the Horse & Jockey yesterday when he saddled two winners.