DE LA SALLE captain John Mullane hopes yesterday’s Waterford SHC title win will be the catalyst for more success for the club.

INTERNET-AGE users overwhelmingly back Barack Obama for US president, according to a poll at the world’s largest social networking website, MySpace.

SHOPPERS on Cork’s bustling St Patrick’s Street were treated to a true high street giant when a circus elephant went on a walkabout.

ABSOLUTELY intriguing! It best sums up tomorrow’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final between holders Cork and Waterford.

WATERFORD have changed their goalkeeper for Sunday’s Guinness All-Ireland senior hurling quarter-final against Cork at Croke Park.

LIMERICK hurling selector Declan Nash has resigned, a fortnight before the side face Kilkenny in the All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals.

A loss of form could see Waterford's hurlers take to Croke Park for next Sunday's All-Ireland SHC quarter-final against Cork, without first-choice goalkeeper Stephen Brenner.

Traditional belief holds that Jesus was killed by blood loss after six hours on the cross.

Waterford’s hopes of retaining their Munster SHC title fell just short in Thurles this afternoon as All-Ireland champions Cork exerted their authority in a 2-17 to 2-15 provincial semi-final win.

REGULAR Waterford goalkeeper Stephen Brenner has been dropped for Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling semi-final, the selectors giving the nod to the county U21 netminder, Ian O’Regan.

Galway 2-15 Waterford 1-13

Waterford 0-14 Cork 0-13

Waterford 1-20 Limerick 4-07

The American designer of Germany’s long-delayed national Holocaust memorial has apologised for a joke that local Jewish leaders said made light of the Nazi gas chambers.

INJURIES and suspensions have forced the Waterford selectors to make a number of positional changes for their Munster SHC game against Kerry at Walsh Park on Sunday.

SATURDAY evening’s tie between Killeagh and St Finbarr’s will be a first meeting at senior hurling championship level for both clubs. Last time these sides clashed was in 1998 when they collided in the intermediate grade and ironically they will return once again to the same sod in Carrigtwohill this weekend.

Kilkenny 4-11 Waterford 0-12

PRESSURE is growing on the Government to introduce a national screening programme for prostate cancer after an independent pilot project is believed to have saved the lives of 36 men.

The scientist who led Britain’s contribution to the “book of life” – the blueprint of human DNA – was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine today.