Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice believes that his side would be unlucky to miss out on the Allianz Football League Division 1 semi-finals if they beat Cork in tomorrow’s clash in Tralee (3pm).

Both Mullingar clubs, St Loman’s and Mullingar Shamrocks, have qualified for the Westmeath SFC semi-finals.

Clare senior hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald will give championship debuts to four players in Sunday’s Munster SHC quarter-final against Waterford in Thurles (throw-in 4pm).

Mullingar Shamrocks 3-7 St Loman’s Mullingar 1-10

CHAMPIONS Garrycastle remain on course to make it three titles in-a-row after the final round of group games this weekend.

VULNERABLE people with mental health problems in Mountjoy Prison are not getting access to full and proper treatment, the latest inspection report from the Mental Health Commission (MHC) has found.

ANOTHER high-profile former referee has hit out at the GAA’s policy of requesting match officials to revisit controversial decisions made during games.

MORE than 1,400 mental health patients are continuing to live in inappropriate conditions in old psychiatric hospitals despite a damning report more than a year ago urging the Government to close them.

Serious concerns were today raised about the condition of almost a third of the country’s large psychiatric hospitals with many wards battling to keep damp and mould at bay.

THE HSE has been accused of letting down the “most unfortunate” patients in society as it emerged that not a cent of the €2 million-plus raised from the sale of former psychiatric hospital property in 2006 and 2007 went back into mental health services.

A PSYCHIATRIC hospital with the highest rate of staff assaults in the country cannot take on extra nurses because of cutbacks, unions have claimed.