Martin Coppinger played an unbelievable second last shot of 287.5m which set him up to pip Aidan Murphy in a riveting Noel Phair Cup tie at Shannonvale.

Naval service divers are due to dive tomorrow on areas of interest identified in Dunmanus Bay as the search for the missing young fisherman feared drowned off Cork continues.

DESSIE HUGHES has made no secret of the regard in which he holds Minsk, his high-profile recruit off the level from John Oxx.

AS the strains of The Last Post faded away, a guard of honour of 12 red-coated Chelsea Pensioners saluted the Union Flag-draped coffin of Sir Denis Thatcher as it left the chapel of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, following his funeral service.