Martin Coppinger won the Noel Phair Cup at Shannonvale, ending James O’Donovan’s fantastic run of wins.

The Garda commissioner said the appointment by the Government of 28 senior garda managers will “help to address the critical vacancies” in the organisation.

Regency Hotel shooting victim David Byrne died of multiple gunshot wounds, an inquest into his death heard.

Gavin Twohig beat Dónal Riordan in the feature score of the Carbery-South West festival at the Pike.

Nicholas Carey gave a record breaking performance at Clashmore where he beat Willie O’Donovan by almost three bowls of odds in the Munster Intermediate championship.

At the function to honour the February Rebel Óg monthly award winners, the senior camogie team from Sacred Heart Secondary School in Clonakilty, one of the judges, Miriam Murphy, told the members of the team present not to read this article today.

MARTIN COPPINGER and Brian Daly beat Gary Daly and Thomas Boyle by well over a bowl at Grenagh, thanks mostly to Coppinger’s brilliance.

PJ Cooney and Davey Fitzgerald had good wins in the Munster intermediate championship during a weekend packed with championship scores in all grades.

David Murphy continued his march to the Munster senior championship quarter-final with a bowl-of-odds win over Nicholas Carey at Templemichael on Sunday.

All-Ireland champion Martin Coppinger was awesome in the opening score of his title defence at Grange on Friday beating Brian Wilmot by three bowls of odds.

Aidan Murphy became the first holder of the Jim Geasley Cup when he beat Edmond Sexton in the last shot at Cobh on Sunday.

Derrinasafa’s two-year stint as an All-Ireland final venue ended on a high note on Sunday with an enthralling All-Ireland senior final in which Martin Coppinger regained the title he won in 2010.

Terry Sexton completed an amazing three-in-a-row for East Cork when he beat Jerry Murphy in the Munster Junior B final at Waterfall on Sunday.

Visitors were treated to a show of top class horses at last Saturday’s Belgooly Show which required lengthy deliberations before the judges could name their supreme horse champion.

Aidan Murphy completed the lineup for the Munster senior championship semi-finals when he beat Gary Daly by close to two bowls of odds in torrential rain at Carrigaline on Saturday.

The Munster senior championship quarter-final draws and next Sunday’s Pool A play-off at Skibbereen between Aidan Murphy, Martin Coppinger and James O’Donovan are dominating bowling discourse this week.

JAMES Buckley turned what looked like certain defeat into a convincing win in the last quarter of his Pool B Munster Senior Championship clash with Pat Butler at Whitechurch on Sunday.

He opened with a good bowl, which Murphy missed by 30m. Murphy played his second bowl to the right and O’Donovan increased his lead to 60m.

Donal Riordan gave a five-star performance on the new Castletownkeneigh road where he beat Gavin Twohig by close to a bowl of odds.

CHRISTY MULLINS brought a memorable 2011 to a perfect conclusion with a convincing win over Gary Daly in the feature score of the RNLI Benefit Day at Castletownbere.

YOU can take a winner at Clonakilty Agricultural Show anywhere.

PAT BUTLER finished with three sensational bowls at Bauravilla on Sunday to win the Mick Crowley Cup final from Eamon Bowen Jnr and Gary Daly.

AIDAN MURPHY won a place in the Munster senior quarter-final when he beat Edmund Sexton by almost a bowl at Baile Bhuirne on Monday evening.

PADDY O’DONOGHUE held on for a good last-shot win against a powerful late surge from John Creedon at Killumney in Pool 4 of the Munster Senior Championship.

GARY DALY made a winning start to his Munster senior championship career by beating Gavin Twohig in the last shot at Béal na mBláth on Saturday.

CLAIRE BARNWELL does not trust the Government with her daughter’s life.

Marine investigators today called for a ’drink driving’ ban at sea after a trainee sailor drowned at port.

IN response to the story (August 20) regarding the sad death of Brian Daly (from an MSRA infection), I wish first of all to commiserate with his family on their loss.

A Cork woman says she is considering taking legal action after her teenage son died as a result of an MRSA infection.

THE country’s first fully licensed Christian radio station was launched yesterday vowing to spread its message of hope over the airways.

Searches are continuing for an Irish ship worker who has been missing for the past two days.

A PRIVATE airfield in west Cork has staged its first air ambulance airlift.

Sky News Ireland today announced that Brian Daly and Ray Kennedy have been appointed presenters of the daily news programmes at 6.30pm and 10pm.

JOHN CREEDON topped Pool B of the Murphy’s Stout Munster Senior championship when he finished with two great bowls to beat Kieran Gould and John O’Driscoll at Castletownkenneigh on Saturday.

KANTURK kept their hopes of a place in the play-offs for the Heineken Munster Junior League title alive with a deserved 24-7 victory over St Mary’s at Corbally.

A chef who was convicted of stabbing his partner to death with a steak knife was found hanging in a locked cell in Arbour Hill prison by his shoelaces, an inquest heard tonight.

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COMPETITION to capture Irish TV news audiences is set to intensify from next month with confirmation by Sky News that it will start its specialist news bulletins for viewers in the Republic on May 10.

SKY News has moved more clouds on to TV3’s horizon after poaching another two well-known faces from its rival to join Grainne Seoige on its new Irish news service.

HUNDREDS of construction firms are being pursued by the Pensions Board for ripping off employees by not paying pension contributions.

IRELAND’S make-or-break match against the Saudis today better not be too thrilling or Martin O’Grady may stay in Japan for good.