Our Lady’s, Templemore (Tipperary) 0-24 Kilkenny CBS 2-15: Our Lady’s Templemore manager Tom Byrnes is relishing a crack at competition kingpins St Kieran’s in the Croke Cup final on Saturday week.

Dr Harty Cup final

LAST year’s runners up Our Lady’s Templemore eased into the last four of the Harty Cup with a ten-point victory over local rivals Thurles CBS in front of a huge crowd at The Ragg this afternoon.

Independent TD Mattie McGrath has called on the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee to investigate the spending of more than €22m on a hospital which has not had overnight patients in several years.

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Ardscoil Rís 0-11 Our Lady’s Templemore 0-8: Eighteen sides have won the Dr Harty Cup since its inception, 92 years ago.

A 27-year-old man has died following yesterday afternoon's serious assault in Navan, Co Meath, gardaí have confirmed.

A woman has died in a crash in Co Cavan this morning.

The HSE has yet to decide whether to move 28 residents from a disability centre after health watchdog Hiqa secured a court order over serious fire safety concerns.

One of two patient representatives named on the HSE’s medical card clinical advisory group wants the body to agree and implement key issues to help families long before its three-month interim report deadline.

Davy Condon is nearing a return to competitive action after riding out on Wednesday morning for the first time since suffering a heavy fall at Cork in August.

The medical card system’s controversial focus on patient finances will stay — but only because the dwindling health budget prevents an "ethical" alternative, and there is no clear way to favour one condition over another.

A total of 115 entries, the highest since 2009, have been attracted to the first £1m (€1.2m) Crabbie’s Grand National at Aintree on April 5.

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There was some fantastic fare on offer at yesterday’s Limerick Harriers point-to-point fixture at Lemonfield, which was staged in aid of the JT McNamara fund.

The number of people forced to wait on trolleys at one of the country’s largest hospitals, Cork University Hospital, is at its highest in a year.

Our Lady's Hospice in Harolds Cross in Dublin has expressed its sympathy to the family of Celia Ferrer De Jesus who was found dead yesterday after her apartment was flooded.

A FILIPINO woman died when her basement flat was submerged in up to 3m of water.

MEADHBH McGivern’s father has said that he was shocked at a report’s finding that no single body had overall responsibility for co-ordinating travel plans for patients requiring transplant surgery in Britain.

THE father of a toddler whose mother was wrongly told she miscarried him has described delays into a long-standing national review as “an absolute scandal”.

DEFENDING champions Ard Scoil Rís play Thurles CBS in the quarter-final of the Dr Harty Cup.

THE head of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has called on two State bodies to act after another malicious fire caused extensive damage to part of one of Cork’s most iconic buildings.

HORSES have run amok causing extensive damage to one of the country’s top pitch and putt courses just days before a major national competition.

THE Department of Justice has denied that women sent to Magdalene Laundries by the courts, on remand or on probation, were regularly kept at the institutions for protracted periods.

A MAN and a woman have been arrested by gardaí investigating the death of a 10-day-old infant from Co Meath.

Gwanako and Our Vic have been left at the head of the weights for Saturday’s Boylesports.com Gold Cup at Cheltenham.

TRAINERS Tony Martin and Edward O’Grady carry the hopes of Ireland as they bid to end a 29-year-old drought in the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham today.

Thurles CBS 0-11 Our Lady’s (Templemore) 0-5

Our Lady’s, Templemore 0-14 Doon CBS 1-8

THE coroner in the Navan school bus tragedy inquest yesterday told families of the five girls killed in the crash he was not allowed to recommend a verdict of corporate manslaughter.

A young child has had the wrong kidney removed following a surgical error at one of Ireland's leading hospitals.

AN emotional Mary Harney last night declared: “Quitting is a shortcut to failure, and I don’t accept failure.”

DAVID HOBBS will celebrate his 100th Irish cap this weekend, and become the youngest player in Irish Hockey history to do so.

THE head of a health watchdog has not ruled out the possibility of another scandal of the scale that resulted in more than 200 women having their wombs needlessly removed.

THE Irish show jumping team finished last in the Nations Cup at Falsterbo, Sweden, yesterday, graphically realising manager Robert Splaine’s prediction that it would be a tough assignment.

Ireland’s show jumping team manager Robert Splaine is not expecting an easy ride today when his charges line out in the Swedish Nations Cup in Falsterbo.

Our Lady’s, Templemore 1-14 Thurles CBS 2-11