Former “singing” priest Tony Walsh has been convicted of sexually abusing a young boy.

Eddie Dunbar avoided disaster to stay in contention for the yellow jersey at the An Post Rás yesterday, the young Corkman battling to limit his losses to just 14 seconds after a late mechanical threatened to derail his chances.

The horrific leg injury sustained by Spanish road cyclist Francesco Ventoso has forced the sport’s governing body, the UCI, to suspend the use of a new type of braking mechanism in the pro peloton.

We live in a Suicide Box – a horrible phrase, but an apt metaphor for how we live today, says author Lucy Costigan.

Lukas Postlberger was yesterday crowned the winner of An Post Rás following a week that saw him deal with crashes, crosswinds, and even the theft of his bike the night before the final stage.

Just 24 hours after An Post Rás yellow jersey wearer Francesca Reda was thrown off the race for receiving an illegal tow, his teammate Matteo Malucelli of Team IDEA 2010 ASD claimed stage 3 into Bearna yesterday.

With five former winners on the start-line and a large overseas contingent competing, this weekend’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan certainly lives up to its name as one of the country’s foremost international stage races.

Sam Bennett will break new ground tomorrow when he competes in the iconic Milan-San Remo. 

St Francis College Rochestown 3-9 Nenagh CBS 2-8: Tour-de-force performances from Ciarán Cormack and Shane Kingston returned St Francis College, Rochestown to the semi-final juncture of the Harty Cup for a second successive year.

Páidí O’Brien is one of the hot favourites to win the final major stage race of the domestic cycling season, the Suir Valley 3-Day, which starts in Clonmel today and runs until Monday afternoon.

Cork chairman Bob Ryan expressed his delight that Páirc Uí Chaoimh will bow out by staging the county’s Munster SHC final against Limerick on July 13.

Australia’s largest providers of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) Virtus Health, has bought a 70% stake in an Irish IVF clinic, SIMS, for more than €15m.

Limerick footballers are unlikely to have any representation in Munster’s Interprovincial football panel next month in what is a further protest at the seeded nature of this year’s draw.

Munster Council chairman Sean Walsh has claimed Waterford wanted a financial “sweetener” to play this year’s provincial senior hurling final at Semple Stadium.

The official announcement of the three-man Irish Olympic cycling team, which was due yesterday, has been delayed until next Friday after one of the short-listed riders who was not picked lodged an appeal to Cycling Ireland.

The Waterford County board last night ratified Ken McGrath and Sean Cullinane as selectors for the county's senior hurling team.

It took Waterford County Board delegates less than 10 minutes last night to formally ratify two former hurling greats as county senior selectors to replace Nicky Cashin and Br Philip Ryan whose unexpected resignations within the past week sent shock waves through the county.

WATERFORD County Board chairman Tom Cunningham spelled out the stark realities of the county’s financial situation at last night’s annual convention in Dungarvan.

A RETIRED army private’s relentless effort to expose the truth about how his friends were killed has been credited by the men’s relatives as being the key to finally revealing what happened.

Was the road out of bounds?

A troubled youth who committed a series of burglaries at his family home and their neighbour’s houses after being asked to leave by his adoptive parents has been given a five-year sentence.

UNDER-FIRE Limerick manager Justin McCarthy will address tonight’s county board meeting in Ballyagran to discuss the controversy which has dogged Shannonside hurling for the past month.

THE Munster Council last night confirmed they will investigate unruly scenes which marred Sunday’s provincial club junior football championship semi-final at Austin Stack Park, Tralee.

“FRINGE” pro-life activists were last night blamed for threatening letters and shotgun cartridges being sent to two government ministers and at least two fertility clinics.

EITHER partner in a couple undergoing fertility treatment should have the right to back out of the arrangement if they change their mind, a group representing fertility practitioners said.

THE High Court has heard there is no legislation in Ireland governing the legal status of frozen embryos at the centre of a landmark dispute between a woman and her estranged husband.

THE chairman of the West Waterford GAA Board last night joined the increasingly large number of people who want the International Rules series scrapped.

CLARE County Board are to unveil a new sponsorship deal worth an estimated €1 million.

WATERFORD'S narrow defeat to Kilkenny in this year's All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final was all the more heartbreaking when Cork, deservedly, went on to lift the title.

THE ever-increasing demands at county level are doing irreparable damage to club structures, according to the secretary of the West Waterford Board, Anthony Walsh.

THE man who guided Waterford to an historic first Munster U-21 FC title last year has threatened to quit in a row over the treatment of football in the county.

A SENIOR GAA official has warned that Waterford cannot deliver on the huge expectation in the county unless they achieve a united camp.

DELEGATES at Thursday night’s annual convention of the West Waterford GAA Board in Knockanore will be told of a significant financial loss for the year.

A LEADING Waterford GAA official has warned that while hurling and football remain in good shape to face the future, the loss of so many young players who have participated at juvenile level and then fade away is a cause for serious concern.