A total of 13 Irish players are included in the field for the 115th Amateur Championship which gets underway next Monday June 14 at Muirfield & North Berwick Golf Clubs.

Janet Pilfold and Olive Brennan of Blue Geranium Café at the Hosford Garden Centre near Bandon in west Cork made this cake for the Flavours of Ireland event in London, certainly one of the highlights.

The FAI have published their list of disciplinary committee decisions.

Eircom League of Ireland table toppers St Patrick's Athletic entertain Carnegie Irish League leaders Linfield in tonight's Setanta Sports Cup clash at Richmond Park (kick-off 8.05pm).

Lurgan's Gareth Shaw made two visits to the 20th before progressing to the last 16 of the South of Ireland Amateur Open at Lahinch.

LIMERICK are awaiting fitness reports on full forward Sean O’Connor before finalising their side to play Tipperary in Saturday’s Munster SHC semi-final replay with Tipperary in Thurles.

Galway's Joe Lyons and Portstewart's Paul Cutler will meet in this afternoon's final of the Radisson-SAS West of Ireland Championship at Rosses Point.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy struggled to a four-over par 75 as Co Louth's Simon Ward led the qualifiers in the Radisson-SAS West of Ireland Amateur Open.

FIFTEEN YEAR-OLD West of Ireland champion Rory McIlroy has been selected to compete in the Nissan Irish Open Championship at Carton House Golf Club next month.

Derek McGarrity’s third Circuit of Ireland victory was hard-earned and he was pushed all the way to the final stage where he eventually triumphed over arch-rival Andrew Nesbitt by 18.2 seconds.

HT: Poland 1 Rep of Ireland 0

Sweden’s Oskar Henningsson led the qualifiers in the West of Ireland Championship at Rosses Point thanks to a superb course record equalling 65.

Kerry face Kildare in Round 4 of the Bank of Ireland football qualifiers on Saturday evening in Thurles.

Carlow fans should not expect to see their O’Hanrahans heroes in the starting line-up when they face neighbours Wicklow in next Sunday’s Bank of Ireland Leinster senior football championship opening round tie at Newbridge.