Gavin Twohig beat Éamon Bowen by almost a bowl in the first round of the Munster senior championship in driving rain at Templemartin on Monday.

Nicholas Carey secured the first win of the 2017 Munster Intermediate championship after a strong finish against PJ Cooney at Ballincurrig.

Gavin Twohig bowled well at the Marsh Road to secure his place in the 2016 Munster intermediate final at the expense of Donal Riordan.

Brian Murphy thinks Enda Kenny’s best chance of forming a new government after the general election will come if he sticks to the story of recovery he has been telling all along

To read Alison O’Connor (Irish Examiner, August 28), it would appear that the peace process started with Ahern and Blair, and because “Fine Gael did not broker this historic agreement... this will always stick in the craw of Fine Gael”. I was surprised to read such mean-minded words.

MY PAL, a sprightly walker and fisherman who has moved to Spain, got a bit of a land when he flew into Dublin Airport and went to rent a car.

Stunning state pensions for Ahern and Cowen, but just statutory redundancy for the Clerys workers turfed out of the building like trash in a feat of financial twisting that was perfectly legal, but morally appalling, writes Shaun Connolly

On the night of the last general election, a victorious Enda Kenny went on TV and set out his strategy for governing.

ON Dec 7, 2007, Jim Nugent told the Mahon Tribunal, under oath, that he had been involved in a whip-around for Bertie Ahern.

TOM GILMARTIN could well claim to have been responsible for exposing the dodgy finances of two of the leading politicians of his time.

Wayne Callanan is the Hughie Desmond Cup champion following an impressive two bowls of odds win over Seamus Sexton at Curraheen on Saturday.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL was in Dublin last week, flogging a book, revisiting the past, and standing by an old pal.

ON THE TV3 documentary Print And Be Damned, Anne Harris, the Sunday Independent editor, gave her account of the relationship the paper forged with Bertie Ahern prior to the 2007 election.

Eddie Ahern has lodged an appeal against the decision of the British Horseracing Authority to suspend him from riding for 10 years.

Irish jockey Eddie Ahern will appeal the 10-year disqualification imposed on him by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) following the conclusion of a corruption hearing.

Limerick 1-19 Wexford 2-16

Martin Coppinger was handed a difficult route to defend his Munster and All-Ireland senior titles at last Wednesday’s Munster championship draws.

IT really is all about the bride for Marcella Ware — she’s just about to relocate from the West Waterford home she built on the banks of the River Bride, moving with her husband Fergal to be closer to the sea and to her Bijou Bridal business in Tramore.

Two straight wins has earned St Michael’s a Cork Premier IFC quarter-final meeting with Kinsale or Clyda Rovers.

Germany’s role in Irish affairs has become a hot currency of late and with valid reason.

I welcome that Boots have finally decided to follow my lead in taking the required steps to ease the financial burden on the prescription paying public in these difficult times.

Subsequent to the publication of the Mahon Tribunal report there seems to be a consensus in the media that we knew all along about the venality of the most powerful of our public representatives and the report only confirms that.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said that the achievements of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern while in office "cannot absolve him" from facing the implications of the Mahon tribunal report.

Bertie Ahern lied when accounting for more than £215,000 of money lodged to bank accounts connected to him, the tribunal believes.

It bordered on travesty that this gripping All-Ireland Fresher hurling championship semi-final at Carriganore yesterday should end up with a loser.

IT seems that as a nation we have failed to heed the €85 billion lesson from the so-called bailout.

THE Government parties have — so far — survived their autumn sleep-overs without any calamities like the one that opened the last chapter in Brian Cowen’s tawdry premiership.

BERTIE AHERN’s head finally hangs in the Dáil — but, typically, not in shame.

FIANNA FÁIL leader Micheál Martin defended his running of the party as he turned fire on Bertie Ahern.

MICHAEL COLLINS would have empathised with the bravery and courage of the late Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan who delivered the oration at the Béal na mBláth commemoration just months before his death, the founding president of the University of Limerick, Dr Edward Walsh, told attendees at this year’s ceremony in West Cork yesterday.

SO, 100 days in, how is the new government doing?

EARLIER this week, during the debate on the Moriarty Report, Michael Lowry vowed to expose the “hypocrisy” of Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.

Tony Killeen: Fianna Fáil

THE idea of offering the Senate as a sacrificial lamb to atone for the failures of our political system has gained unprecedented momentum as a proposal and as a convenient diversion too.

BERTIE AHERN and Éamon de Valera share one incredible accomplishment — winning three successive elections for Fianna Fáil.

TROUBLES continued to mount for Fianna Fáil last night with confirmation that two of its Dublin TDs have decided not to put themselves forward for the next election.

SO, there it is, another portion of the bill for our Icarus decade has been presented and it does not look at all pretty.

LEINSTER champions Dublin and Munster surprise packets Kerry advanced to the semi-finals of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies SFC with hard-fought quarter-final victories at Banagher on Saturday.

Leinster champions Dublin and Munster surprise packets Kerry advanced to the semi-finals of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship with hard-fought quarter-final victories at Banagher today.

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

YOUR report headlined ‘Ahern targets maintenance loophole (January 25) fails to make it clear it is contrary to the law of the land and to a person’s fundamental human rights to imprison those who are unable to pay their civil debts, however those debts arise.

Monkfish could be substituted for turbot in this recipe.

He was renowned for politicised grant-giving as Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism. There is little evidence of personal humility throughout his political career. His penchant for luxury was exceptional and unsustainable. He doesn’t deserve sympathy or victim status because he milked the system