CLAIRE BRADY (Celbridge) will be back in action on Irish soil on Sunday when she lines up for the 100m at the Woodies DIY AAI Games, which return to Castleisland after a 10-year absence. The Games will include senior relays as well as Paralympic events and a Masters 3km team event.

BULLS rated 166 to 205 for EBI won FBD Gene Ireland awards for their owners at the ICBF dairy cattle breeding conference at Fermoy.

AS compliments go it was as impressive as it was rare.

I RECEIVED my HSE payment the other day — it was 9% (€6,500) down on what it should have been. This doesn’t reflect the full effect of the HSE cuts.

EVERYTHING comes in threes, even body blows, as Kerry footballers found to their chagrin yesterday.

GILLIAN O’SULLIVAN smashed her own 20k walk Irish record and set herself up as one of the favourites for August’s world championships in Paris when she led all the way to win the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Milan yesterday.

ROBERT HEFFERNAN will miss the 20th IAAF World Cup for racewalking in Turin in two weeks time on account of injury. The Togher athlete is nursing a knee injury.