The Church of Ireland has appointed its first ever female Bishop.

It started out over a decade ago as a plan to expose youngsters in West Waterford to an elite standard of colleges hurling.

A DISTRICT court judge has refused to grant a licence for a commercially run bingo hall in Cork which would have given 10% of its proceeds to charities.

A BRILLIANT day of athletics was illuminated by electrifying performances from two of Ireland’s brightest young talents, Ciara Mageean (Assumption, Ballinahinch) and Siofra Cleirigh Buttner (Coláiste Iosagain), at the Woodies DIY Irish Schools Championships in Tullamore on Saturday.

CORK are chasing their sixth consecutive Munster ladies football title when they take on old rivals Kerry in Bruff tonight (7pm) but Angela Walsh is unhappy that the winners will be forced to wait seven weeks to get back into action.

AN anniversary Mass in memory of the late great Christy Ring will be broadcast worldwide this Sunday on the internet.

DERVAL O’ROURKE is back on track for the world indoor championships in Valencia after an injury lay-off.

AT St Declan’s Community College, Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford, last evening the host team put in a sterling performance in scoring 104 points to defeat Waterpark College and CBS Tramore.

THE Dublin teenager beaten to death in Lanzarote was an award-winning student who had recently finished his school exams.

NIALL TUOHY (Newtown School) provided the upset of the meet when he fought back in the finishing straight to edge out his training partner, David McCarthy (St Augustine’s, Dungarvan) in the senior boys’ 800m at the KitKat Munster Schools track and field championships at UL.

DAVID McCARTHY (St Augustine’s) romped away with the senior boys’ title at the KitKat Munster Schools cross-country championships in Dungarvan on Saturday.

MARK CHRISTIE (Westmeath) claimed his first national senior title with victory at the inter-counties cross-country championships at St Augustine’s College, Dungarvan, yesterday.

STAFF in centres for children unsuited to mainstream schools are often subject to abuse and violent behaviour, Department of Education inspectors have found.

ATHLETES from all 32 counties will converge on the Tullamore Harriers Track for the Kit Kat Irish Schools championships today.

THE future stars of Irish athletics produced impressive displays at the Kit Kat Munster Schools track and field championships in CIT on Saturday.

IRISH High Jump sensation Adrian O’Dwyer from Kilkenny yesterday became the 13th Irish athlete to achieve the Olympic A standard when he set an Irish record of 2.30m at a meeting in Algiers.

RACHEL AKERS (Scariff CC), who won both the senior girls discus and hammer at the Kit Kat Irish schools championships in Tullamore last year, begins to defend her titles at CIT in Bishopstown tomorrow at the Kit Kat Munster schools championships, starting at 9.30am.

A GREAT day for St Augustine’s, Dungarvan at New Inn, Co Tipperary on Saturday and some football cheer for Waterford too, the Friary having both the skill and know-how to beat Coláiste An Spioraid Naoimh in a lively Corn An Uachtarán (Munster Colleges S‘B’FC) final.

FAVOURITE Andrew Ledwith (North Monastery) will have to reproduce the form he displayed at the national inter-club championships to lift the senior boys’ title at the Kit Kat Irish Schools Cross-Country in Antrim on Saturday.

MARK HANRAHAN (Douglas Community School) turned in another power-packed performance to win the Kit Kat Munster Schools senior boys’ cross-country title at St Augustine’s College, Dungarvan, on Saturday and it was a performance to savour.