Secondary schools in the Mid-West are combating obesity through a food initiative given the thumbs-up by increasing numbers of teenagers, parents and teachers.

It will be a time for bridging gaps as the Dr Harty Cup gets underway today, albeit with a more truncated fixture list than usual.

Today they go in search of a second Munster Vocational SAHC title in four years in Croagh against Nenagh VS. Recently they collected the Munster JAHC crown for the fourth successive year.

Causeway CS had to battle a spirited Hazelwood College’s challenge at a blustery Tournafulla yesterday.

LAST year, Ciara Mageean (Assumption, Ballinahinch) took her career to a new level when she broke Sonia O’Sullivan’s long standing national junior 800m record at the Irish schools track and field championships.

NOW that I am a grandmother with seven precious grandchildren, I am more aware of the importance of passing on some life skills to the next generation. They all live within 15 minutes of us so we are fortunate to see them almost every day.

BANAGHER College coach Gearóid O’Regan should have mixed emotions tomorrow as his side take on Causeway Comprehensive in the All-Ireland vocational schools “A” SHC final in Semple Stadium.

IT may have gone unnoticed by most people outside the county, but an All-Ireland hurling championship title found its way to Kerry last weekend when Causeway Comprehensive School collected the Vocational junior title in style.

PAUL HARRINGTON, 12, put in the boot to show off his project at this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

THE last time former rugby star Gerry “Ginger” McLoughlin faced the haka, there were 15 All Black warriors taunting him at Thomond Park on October 31, 1978.