Lismore (Waterford) 2-14 Kilmoyley (Kerry) 0-13: Lismore are the new Munster Club IHC champions after an impressive victory over Kerry side Kilmoyley at Mallow’s GAA Complex on Saturday.

Westmeath staged a strong second-half display, to maintain their unbeaten run in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship at Austin Stack Park, Tralee this afternoon.

Clare 2-28 Kerry 1-9: Sometimes you wonder if things happen by design or default in Clare but the unveiling of their €2.1m stand could not come at a better time next Sunday when a bumper crowd is expected at their Cusack Park HQ when the host rivals Limerick in a battle for promotion to the top flight of the Allianz Hurling League.

Clare 2-27 Kerry 0-8: It was all one-way traffic at Sixmilebridge last night when Clare had 25 points to spare over Kerry in the Munster Senior Hurling league.

Out of a double tragedy that claimed the lives of a mother and her newborn baby comes the prospect of saving many little lives.

The HSE and a consultant obstetrician have expressed sincere regret to the family of Garda Sergeant Tanya McCabe, who died following an emergency caesarean section.

THE HSE has yet to complete an internal inquiry more than a year after the death of a garda sergeant and her baby son hours after she gave birth to twins.

THE editor of the Sunday Independent, Aengus Fanning, has apologised for any offence caused by his newspaper’s coverage of the death of a garda who died while giving birth to twins but defended the story as being of “interest to the public”.

The editor of the Sunday Independent newspaper yesterday said he never meant to cause the family of the late garda Tania Corcoran any distress.

THERE was widespread condemnation yesterday of newspaper reporting linking the death of a female garda during childbirth to the part her husband played in the shooting of John Carthy in the Abbeylara siege.

THE fatal shooting of John Carthy by gardaí in Abbeylara “should never have happened”, the Barr Tribunal has found.