On Easter Saturday 1916, Tom Clifford sat down in his room in 4 Gardiner St to write a letter to his brother Dan. The letter has recently been discovered by their niece, Carmel Clifford.

BALLYHEA

Cork SHC: Bride Rovers 3-14 Courcey Rovers 0-19 (aet)

Bride Julie-Ann Coleman had a bit of shock in store for her new husband David Jones on their wedding day.

The Tim Townend-owned/trained Dr Patmassini lit up yesterday’s 10th annual Clonmult/Dungourney point-to-point meeting at Avaune by readily putting his rivals to the sword in the winners of two.

Midleton 1-24 Bride Rovers 1-11

The Tipperary Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Lisronagh on Saturday afternoon brought new meaning to the phrase ‘marathon’ for the fixture saw some 175 horses participating on a 12-race card with proceedings drawing to a close at 7.45pm following a 2.30pm start.

I was very glad to hear the Taoiseach’s apology to the women who had the misfortune to find themselves in a Magdalene Laundries. It was the right thing to do and long overdue.

Bride Rovers 2-13 Cloyne 2-12

In 2010, Blackrock seemed set to drop from senior hurling ranks as they trailed Blarney in the relegation play-off, only for Kevin O’Keeffe to score a late goal to retain their top flight status.

GAVIN BRYARS’S The Sinking of the Titanic is one of the most important pieces of contemporary music, but when it debuted in the early 1970s it received a critical battering.

Though they twice held decent advantages, Erin’s Own were left hanging on at the finish against Bride Rovers in Carrigtwohill last night

BATTLE AXE proved a 25/1 shocker in the featured Shamrock Handicap Chase on a day of surprises at Gowran Park yesterday.

PAT WALSH is a fountain of Bride Rovers knowledge. With 35 winters behind him, he’s soldiered through hurling days both good and bad.

FROM big hearts come some huge results and this Evening Echo Cork Co SHC semi-final upset at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday was a whopper.

JOHN OXX’S once-raced Alarazi gets the vote to take the Group Three 2000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown this afternoon.

Aidan O’Brien has forked out €30,000 to add Diamond Necklace to the field for Sunday’s Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh.

Bryan Smart’s Hellvelyn flies the flag for Britain in the Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

Glen Rovers 1-19 Cloyne 3-11

Sexy assassin Uma Thurman last night stunned moviegoers at the LA premiere of Kill Bill: Volume 2.

MORE THAN 250 angry postal workers will march on the Dáil today to protest Communications Minister Dermot Ahern’s failure to hand over what they claim are their legitimate shares in the company.

POSTAL workers and Communications Minister Dermot Ahern clashed yesterday over claims he had cheated them out of their shares in the company.

AN POST workers facing up to 1,500 job losses yesterday criticised their management for accepting bonuses while warning that the company was headed for further financial losses.

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