LEINSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL:

The former governor of one of Nigeria’s richest oil-producing states was jailed for 13 years in the UK today after admitting fraud totalling nearly £50 million.

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

IT didn’t take long last year, just a few minutes after the final whistle and with the masses already breaking onto the sacred sod, before the announcement blared over the Croke Park tannoy system – ‘Gardaí and stewards, to Plan B please, Plan B!’.

BRITISH bookmaker William Hill has not ruled out closures of more of its outlets in Ireland, and won’t expand any further here until learning more about how the Government might update the national Betting Act over the coming months.

THE “face” of the Special Olympics national fundraising drive has been named Cork person of the month for April.

FOOD store, The Butler’s Pantry said sales grew by 20% last year.

RTÉ broadcaster Pat Kenny and his wife Kathy claim they maintained part of disputed lands on Gorse Hill in Dalkey as a “nature reserve” for foxes and badgers and have a legal claim over it since 1991, which prevents any development of the lands, the High Court heard.

A BRITISH parliamentary peer and world-renowned human rights lawyer has claimed the ruling by Garda authorities that Sikh recruits may not wear a turban is indefensible and will easily be overturned in a court of law.

Collier Hill capped what has been a glorious second half of the season when leading home a clean sweep for the European raiders in the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase at Sha Tin.

Fresh life has been breathed into the Melbourne Cup ante-post market following the confirmation that Kieren Fallon will be allowed to partner Yeats in the famous race.

North Yorkshire trainer Alan Swinbank’s Indian summer continued when he saddled 20-1 chance Hartshead to win the TSG Handicap at York.

Yeats has been all the rage with the bookmakers ahead of Saturday’s Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh.

Graeme Evans

KARAKATTA HILL won the Premier Cup at Templetuohy yesterday, flooring by two lengths the odds laid on the Kevin Barry trained Musical Hill.

GAA director general Liam Mulvihill has revealed that the cash strapped association will not be developing the Hill 16 stand in the short-term.