AIG All-Ireland champions Muskerry have made a spectacular start to their Barton Shield title defence.

Providence Resources is expected to conclude a farm-out deal for its Spanish Point asset — in which it is a near 60% shareholder — in the next three to six months.

Irish explorer Providence Resources has won a judgment in London’s Commercial Court against having to pay around $19m (€15.5m) in drilling-related costs relating to its headline Barryroe oil and gas field in the Celtic Sea.

Munster champions Tramore needed all their fighting spirit after six years of campaigning together to reach today’s AIG Senior Cup final at Carton House.

Niall Gorey works for the company that makes the All-Ireland winners’ medals but yesterday he earned one to keep as Muskerry delivered one half of an AIG Cups and Shields double for Munster.

Muskerry Golf Club have the chance to bury their demons of three years ago when their quartet bids for an All-Ireland title in the AIG Barton Shield at Carton House today.

Weekend wins for Rosslare in Irish Senior Cup Leinster section and Warrenpoint in the Barton Shield in Ulster have confirmed the field for the national finals of the AIG Cups and Shields at Carton House, Kildare next month.

Two years ago, the little nine-hole Spanish Point links in West Clare didn’t have a pennant of any kind.

Spanish Point gave Munster golf another reason to cheer at the AIG All-Ireland Cups & Shields National finals when they lifted the Pierce Purcell Shield at Royal Tara Golf Club.

Ballybunion ended a 34-year national title drought yesterday when its all-teenage team lifted the Junior Cup on day two of the AIG All-Ireland Cups & Shields National Finals at Royal Tara Golf Club.

ONE careful lady owner — the term, often applied to a second-hand car sale as a sort of badge of tender, loving care, can equally, and probably even more appropriately, be applied to the Cork home called Spanish Point.

Family-run Wild Irish Sea Veg is tapping into consumers’ growing taste for seaweed and after bagging a deal with a NY deli and aiming to grow sales to Britain and beyond, there’s no limit to the company’s ambitions, writes Trish Dromey

Drilling for gas off the west coast at Providence Resources’s Spanish Point asset is due to get under way next year.

Sean Tobin claimed his fourth Aviva Munster Schools’ cross-country title in a row yesterday with a power-packed display at the CIT Sports Complex in Bishopstown.

PROVIDENCE Resources is planning to start drilling at its much anticipated Spanish Point prospect in 2012, following seismic studies suggesting the licence is likely to become a commercial development.

Providence Resources has revealed a drop in revenue in its interim report and financial statement for the six months up to June 30, 2009.

ARD Scoil Ris, Limerick maintained the high standard for the college in the TCH All-Ireland Schools Quiz at the South Court Hotel Limerick, winning a very exciting contest by just two points with a score of 102 against Mercy Secondary School, Kanturk.

PROVIDENCE Resources has involved Challenger Minerals in a farm-out deal on its west of Ireland Spanish Point project.

At the Auburn Lodge Hotel, Ennis last evening St. Joseph’s Secondary School, Spanish Point had a very exciting win over Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon in a first round quiz session.

Mt Lourdes Grammar, Fermanagh 4-11 St Josephs Spanish Point, Clare 2-3

TWO new licences were granted yesterday for exploration in major gas fields around 100km off the west coast.

IRISH Mixed Foursomes Cup holders Bandon were shocked by fellow West Cork club Bantry Bay in the opening round of this year’s event yesterday.