Kurt Walker has secured Ireland's fifth medal at the European Games in Minsk this afternoon.

The chairman of the Semple Stadium committee, Con Hogan, insists it would have been dangerous to stop Limerick supporters from flooding onto the sideline in the closing stages of Saturday’s All-Ireland U21 hurling final.

NATIONAL Olympic rowing manager Mike Heskin believes the Government must begin to invest in the development of specialist sports programmes for children, if Ireland is to achieve its sporting potential.

ALTHOUGH not quite in the circumstances they might have expected, the Irish men’s lightweight four of Gearoid Towey, Eugene Coakley, Richard Archibald and Paul Griffin have earned themselves a place in tomorrow’s World Championship final.

John McCluskey, driving his powerful Peugeot 306, won an exciting second round of the Irish Rallycross Championship at Mondello Park.