There was no hiding Shane Lowry’s bitter disappointment after confessing he let victory slip in the British Masters at Woburn.

Irish amateur golf is riding the crest of a wave after a record five Irishmen played on the winning Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup side just a few weeks ago.

Like the 46A bus to Dun Laoghaire, which would take an age to come and then arrive with another stuck to its exhaust pipe, there are signs that things are about to start moving apace in Irish golf.

Being Ryder Cup captain means showing faith in your big gun and both 2014 skipper Paul McGinley and 2016 European boss Darren Clarke had sympathy for a struggling Rory McIlroy.

There are no new recipients of Michelin Stars in the Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2015 just published today.

A group of protesting asylum seekers who claimed to be on hunger strike at an accommodation centre in Co Limerick have been transferred to other asylum hostels, management at the privately operated Mount Trenchard centre have said.

Wildlife is not in short supply at Fota Island, but the Irish Open will have “Wild Thing” John Daly alongside the “Big Five” of Rory McIlroy, Pádraig Harrington, Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley from June 19-22.

Owner Barry Connell has confirmed Mount Benbulben will be supplemented for the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.

Reports that Mount Carmel Hospital in Dublin may be bought by RAS Medical were welcomed by members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health.

Minister for Health James Reilly has defended his decision not to intervene and take over Mount Carmel hospital.

Electric Picnic organisers have today revealed which bands would be playing on each day of the festival.

Most of the €96m in State funding given to 56 private schools in 2011-12 was spent on teacher salaries, writes political correspondent Mary Regan

Overturn has been handed stall eight as he bids to land back-to-back victories in the StanJames.com Chester Cup on the Roodee on Wednesday.

The Irish priest muzzled by the Vatican for his liberal views has received overwhelming support from colleagues worldwide, with a senior member of the Irish Redemptorist order saying liberal priests are being subjected to FBI-like attention from ultra-orthodox “Catholic agents”.

WATERVILLE’S David Higgins is the man to beat as the Irish PGA Region’s season comes to an exciting climax at Mount Juliet on Saturday.

IT IS all quiet on the adult inter-county hurling scene this weekend as the nation prepares for the mother of all battles when Kilkenny and Tipperary face off in Sunday week’s All-Ireland SHC final.

Big Buck’s made the perfect return for owner Andy Stewart and trainer Paul Nicholls when outclassing his rivals in the sportingbet.com Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury.

COULD the EU vice-president Margot Wallstrom who expressed confidence in the legal guarantees for Ireland in Lisbon II in Cork recently be the same Margot Wallstrom who, as environment commissioner, failed to enforce the legal guarantees contained in the drinking water directive (98/83/EC) in Ireland in 2001, despite our direct appeal to her?

Striking workers at Mount Carmel Hospital in Dublin are planning to extend their protest this morning by targeting the agency supplying the temporary staff who are filling in for them.

A DRUG offender with mental health problems who was recently released from jail has killed six people in a shooting spree, including a policewoman.

Mike de Kock attempts to halt the Aidan O’Brien bandwagon in Chicago on Saturday when his Archipenko locks horns with Mount Nelson in the Arlington Million.

Aidan O’Brien and Johnny Murtagh bagged another Group One on British shores as Mount Nelson earned a last-gasp win in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown.

Twelve-year-old Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) beat twin sister Leona by one hole to win the 2007 Flanagans Leinster Girls Championships at Old Conna Golf Club.

IT WAS nip and tuck all the way in the TCH All Ireland Schools Quiz held at the West Cork Hotel, Skibbereen, Co Cork, yesterday, won on the final question.

IT was another close call encounter in last night’s Thomas Crosbie Holdings All Ireland Schools’ Quiz.

The following is the Leinster A Schools XV to play Munster B Schools at Donnybrook on Wednesday (KO: 1.30):

Hilton International today signed a contract to operate the five-star Mount Wolseley Country Estate, which is to be known as The Mount Wolseley Hilton from June 1.

Blackrock College 20 St Michael’s College 13

FOR the fifth time in six years, arch-rivals Mount Sion and Ballygunner meet in the Waterford SHC final at Walsh Park tomorrow.

VIJAY isn’t here, Tiger is struggling with injury and the Europeans are hungover from Ryder Cup heroics.

A terror attack on a five-storey Baghdad hotel which left 17 people dead was a suicide bombing and may have hit the wrong target, the US military said today.

IT was CS Lewis who conceived of the hidden world of Narnia, accessible only through a hidden door in a wardrobe in a room at the top of a very large house.

Dundalk professional Leslie Walker carded a course record of 66 to win the £6,000 Fintona Pro-Am tournament but still had only oine stroke to spare over Stephen Hamill and John Langan.