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Iarnród Éireann has confirmed it will be dropping controversial parking charges at four railway stations on the Cork-Midleton line for the next three months.

The days of €20 return train fares between Cork and Dublin are gone.

SEAN LACEY of the Edge Racing cycling team did what many deemed improbable when he claimed a sensational overall win at the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan in Killorglin yesterday.

Today’s second stage of the FBD Insurance RAS from Dundalk to Carrick-on-Shannon was declared void following a serious collision involving eight riders.

DAN CRAVEN (Rapha Condor Sharp) started cycling in a tiny town in an outback of Namibia before joining a cycling club when he went to University near Cape Town and yesterday he conducted his own master class when he won the opening stage of the FBD Insurance Rás in Dundalk.

Dan Craven (Rapha Condor Sharp) won today’s opening stage of the FBD Insurance Rás from Dunboyne to Dundalk after he bested Mark McNally of the An Post Sean Kelly team to the line in glorious sunshine.

HOLLAND have two of the race favourites at this weekend’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan and while neither figured in yesterday’s opening stage, their rookie compatriot Robert-Jan Mol (West Frisia Combilift), stepped up the steal the limelight.

CHRIS NEWTON can join a handful of legends who have won the FBD Insurance Rás three times when he lines up for the 2009 edition in Kilcullen next Sunday.

CORK and Kerry supporters face an uphill struggle to get to Croke Park, if the replayed All-Ireland semi-final, as seems certain, is fixed for next Sunday.

CIARÁN POWER (Pezula Racing) put five days of misery behind him to win the stage and put himself right up in contention for what would be a sensational third FBD Milk Rás victory at the end of a 112 mile trip from Skibbereen to Clonmel that wrought havoc at the top of the general classification sheet where Simon Richardson (Plowman Craven) now holds the overall lead and former race leader, Stephen Gallagher (An Post/Sean Kelly), moves back up to within 10 seconds of reclaiming pole position.

THE Shay Elliott Memorial Classic in Bray tomorrow is the big event this weekend with the evergreen Malcolm Elliott returning to defend his title.

MUNSTER sports fans planning to travel to the capital by train this weekend were last night urged to pre-book their tickets.

UP to 500,000 more passengers are expected to pass through Cork’s Kent Station this year.

TRAIN drivers in Cork yesterday accused management of dirty tricks over replacing old carriages with new ones without their knowledge.

PAUL HEALION (Murphy and Gunn/Newlyn Group) heads into today's final stage of the Credit Union Ras Mumhan in Killorglin almost certain of victory.

THE Martin Donnelly/Sean Kelly professional cycling team will make its Irish debut in this weekend’s five stage Credit Union Rás Mumhan in Co. Kerry.

Munster will get 20,000 tickets for the Heineken Cup semi-final with Leinster.

GARDAÍ were last night trying to establish the identify a body which was found locked in the toilet of a train yesterday.

SEVERE wintry weather is expected to continue over the weekend. And as temperatures remain close to freezing due to wind chill, forecasters say conditions are not likely to improve in the coming few days.

HURLING fans in Cork will be able to purchase online rail tickets from this morning for any of the six special trains travelling from Cork for Sunday week’s All-Ireland decider between Cork and Galway in Croke Park.

ROGER AIKEN (Louth Safe Cycling), who turned 24 three days earlier, got a belated birthday present yesterday in the form of his first ever stage win as the FBD Insurance RAS got under way with an 84 mile stage from Dublin to Emyvale.

AN estimated 2,000 Cork morning commuters were bussed to work yesterday after unofficial action by some Irish Rail staff at Kent Station.

KERRY football fans travelling to the All-Ireland final on special trains at the weekend will not be allowed bring alcohol on board.

IARNRÓD Éireann plans to upgrade a number of stations, including Banteer, Rathmore and Killarney, on the Mallow-Tralee railway line, this year.

STEPHEN O’SULLIVAN (Cycleways Lee Strand) won his first national senior title in the All-Ireland Criterium Championship around the famed Monaghan Road circuit in Cork yesterday.

MORE than 100,000 people will flock to Croke Park for the All-Ireland hurling semi-finals this weekend.

TRAIN ticket sales for special events are being reviewed after hundreds of hurling fans were left disappointed at Kent Station in Cork yesterday morning.

AN ANXIOUS mother-to-be was at the centre of an emergency during a three-hour train delay on a mainline service yesterday.

Two men who admitted killing walked free today after a High Court judge handed down suspended sentences for manslaughter.

MORE Kerry supporters than ever will be taking to the air for Sunday’s All-Ireland football final against Armagh, with four planes leaving Kerry Airport on Sunday morning.

A murder trial jury has heard that three new age travellers in dispute with new arrivals to their campsite knocked one man to the ground, bound his hands with a rope, and then beat him so severely that he died from his injuries.