Lee Valley will be hoping to put another dent in Mountbellew’s AIG Ladies Cups and Shields dream when they take on the Galway minnows in the Minor Cup final at Malone today.

Kinsale Golf Club will continue its centenary celebrations in the grandest style this week when it hosts the Golfing Union of Ireland’s National Finals of the Cups and Shields, sponsored by Chartis Insurance.

Up to 116 jobs are set to be saved following a management buyout that will see a carpet factory in Co Down re-open.

More than 400 jobs at two textiles factories were threatened today after the plants’ parent company was placed in receivership.