Funding of almost €27m was announced by Sport Ireland yesterday, with hockey, modern pentathlon, Community Games, gymnastics, and golf among the big winners.

Hurlers in the Christy Ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Cups have called on the GAA for the competitions to be afforded more recognition, according to a GPA survey.

Justin McCarthy has rekindled his love affair with Antrim hurling and will be part of new manager PJ O’Mullan’s backroom team next for the next two years.

Futility (noun): Uselessness, meaninglessness, pointlessness, worthlessness, emptiness, aimlessness.

LIAM CLANCY first decided on Ring, Co Waterford, in 1963. It was over the Comeragh Mountains from Carrick-on-Suir, where he had grown up.

A seaside town in Cork has been dealt a severe blow as its main strand looks set to be shut to swimmers next summer over water safety concerns.

The President of the High Court has said it should not be "impossible" for financial organisations to show "empathy and understanding" in situations such as where a man diagnosed with heart disease got no payment from his insurer, despite having critical illness cover for conditions including heart attack and stroke.

A €5m environmental project has been announced by Jimmy Deenihan, the arts, heritage, and gaeltacht minister, aimed at restoring an endangered mussel in South Kerry.

David Murphy has his Munster senior championship campaign back on track after a last-shot win over John Creedon at Kealkill.

Rare land, house, bog, commonage and island sale in Kerry’s Derrynane harbour will stir interest.

Legendary Waterford forward John Mullane has been forced to deny he had any involvement in the removal of Michael Ryan from the Waterford senior hurling manager's position.

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The family of the skipper who drowned along with four of his crew off the South-West coast have pleaded with authorities to make technology available which would pinpoint fishermen lost at sea.

GARDAÍ have warned the public to be extra cautious about letting people into their homes after a spate of burglaries in west Waterford, many of which are believed to have been carried out by bogus gardaí, ESB and HSE officials.

TRIBUTES were paid last night to Paul Flynn on his retirement from inter-county hurling. Waterford chairman Pat Flynn described the 34-year-old Ballygunner man as ‘a Waterford hurling legend.’

WHAT began as a relatively low profile season for Alan Ring has ended up in a hectic end of season finale that has the former Kerry circuit racer chasing success on three different championships fronts.

SLAUGHTER of the innocents. That’s how many people saw the early qualifier rounds of this year’s All-Ireland championship.

STUDENTS of a higher diploma in television production at the Ring Gaeltacht have just finished shooting five documentaries for Irish television, while applications are now invited for the next course.

CORK intermediate football champions Carbery Rangers are chasing their third Munster championship title in a row when they play Limerick champions Pallasgreen in the provincial decider tomorrow.

THE chairman of the West Waterford GAA Board last night joined the increasingly large number of people who want the International Rules series scrapped.

YOU don’t have to speak Irish to buy the last remaining house at Cois Cuan in Waterford’s Ring Gaeltacht - you just have to talk money.

FINE GAEL will not impose any sanction on Mayo TD Michael Ring despite his legal challenge to the Local Government Act being completely at odds with the party line.