Oils were one of the big beauty trends last year. The next generation has arrived, writes Katie Wright.

Offaly’s Niall McNamee has spoken of his embarrassment at seeing Tyrone’s state-of-the-art centre of excellence in Garvaghey and claimed more could be done by his own county board to facilitate their county teams.

Reigning All-Ireland champions St Thomas remain on course to retain their crown after surviving a do-or-die group clash with the 2011 winners Clarinbridge last evening.

Conor Cooney got defending All-Ireland champions St Thomas’ Galway SHC campaign back on track with their first win of the group stages over Killimordaly.

Joe Canning hit the winning points as Portumna dealt a severe blow to All-Ireland club hurling champions St Thomas’ defence of their Galway title.

Victoria White (Opinion, May 9) should really do a little background reading in climate science.

Galway hurling manager Anthony Cunningham has made some notable additions to his squad ahead of the new inter-county season.

Former captain Shane Kavanagh has been recalled to the extended Galway hurling squad for 2013.

TWO Eoin Forde goals in the space of a minute in the first-half paved the way for All-Ireland club champions Clarinbridge to move top of their group in the Galway SHC.

REIGNING champions Portumna sealed a place in the quarter-finals of the Galway senior hurling championship when they defeated Kinvara by 2-22 to 1-10 in a repeat of the 2007 county final.

A FANTASTIC league final in Thurles yesterday, and great credit to the players on both teams for that, but the first people I want to talk about here are the Galway management team of John McIntyre, John Moylan, John Hardiman and Joe Connolly.

GALWAY GAA officials were last night meeting to lodge an objection to the proposed 7pm start to their Allianz NHL showdown with Cork in Thurles on the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday.

THREE club players in Galway accused of assaulting a referee will have to serve bans of almost a year after GAA bosses in Croke Park threw out a 12-week suspension imposed locally.

YOU have to feel for Colm Callanan. On the club scene Callanan plays for Kinvara in the Galway senior championship, the same championship dominated for the last number of years by Portumna, three-times All-Ireland club champions in the last four seasons.

CORK captain Graham Canty has been passed fit to play for Cork and resumes his centre-back position for Sunday’s NFL showdown with Fermanagh at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

THE Galway team to play Cork in Sunday’s All-Ireland senior camogie final shows two changes from the side which defeated defending champions Wexford in the semi-final.

GALWAY manager Vincent Mullen called for an open draw to the U21 hurling championship following his side’s four-point defeat at the hands of Kilkenny in a keenly-contested semi-final at Thurles on Saturday.

There was a dramatic twist in the election of the Galway hurling manager last night when Mattie Murphy was chosen by the seven-man committee but then rejected by the hurling board that had set up the committee.

GALWAY include three seniors on their under-21 team to play Wexford in the All-Ireland hurling championship semi-final at Semple Stadium tomorrow, at 3.30pm.