There is a residue from the not-too-distant past when up to a third of the Clontarf first team were from the south, mostly from Cork Constitution. The club was once affectionately known as “Contarf.”

A Dublin couple who spent thousands on a dream wedding in a romantic village in northern Italy discovered two years later that they were not married at all, a court has heard.

Clontarf 27 UCC 8

Shannon leading Ballymena by three points in the AIL rugby league.