A Dublin Councillor has said that a community centre believed to have been purchased by the Church of Scientology should have been used for a new school.

And then there was one.

Kerry 6-27 Kildare 0-9: Kerry manager Eamon Kelly was quick to try to dampen down expectations as Kerry blitzed the team that beat them in last year’s Christy Ring Cup final to book a place in next week’s decider.

The brain is plastic, allowing it to change, even in later life. However, it needs to be challenged to stay fit and healthy, a campaign warns.

Westmeath 2-22 Kildare 2-13

Westmeath 2-22 Kildare 2-13

You could hardly call the face-off between Westmeath and Kildare the £100 million game like they tend to call the English Championship play-off final in Wembley, but it’s actually hurling’s equivalent.

CHRISTY RING CUP FINAL:

Kildare 4-18 Kerry 2-22

A Memory Resource Room where people concerned about memory loss can talk to health professionals is just one of a number of North Cork initiatives designed to support dementia patients and their families.

If you have ever felt tired the morning after the night before, you might be relieved to learn that even a small amount of alcohol disrupts your sleep.

FOUR legends of Irish rallying will rekindle its halcyon days on Sunday’s Halloween Historic Rally in Carrick-on-Suir.

A young Dublin electrician who knocked out an acquaintance’s front tooth after a spat about his girlfriend has received an 18 month suspended sentence.

BROADCASTER Gay Byrne believes keeping busy saved him from becoming depressed.

The Willie Loughman Memorial Forest Rally, the second round of the Petro Systems National Forest Championship was won by Trevor Harding/Andrew Purcell (Subaru WRC).

MOTORSPORT Ireland have stepped up their involvement in Rally Ireland and will actually promote the 2009 event that will kick start the World Rally Championship in late January. However, funding for the event has yet to be put in place.

Former national rally champion, Ray Breen, co-driven by his son, Craig, in their Ford Focus WRC, won the Carrick-on-Suir based Willie Loughman forest rally, the second round of the Hankook Tyres National Forest Championship.

Even though they led from the first of the eight stages, Waterford’s, Andrew Purcell (Subaru WRC) and his co-driver, Mick Courtney had to fend off a determined challenge from reigning national forest champions, Stephen Moore/Tony McHugh (Ford Focus WERC) to win the Sean Conlon Memorial Tipperary Forest Rally.

Ireland is set to become a world leader in Alzheimer’s disease research following the annoucement of a new scientific study yesterday.

THE Irish bid to host a round of the World Rally Championship will be further scrutinised today at the World Rally Commission meeting at FIA headquarters in Paris.

Extending his overnight advantage, Glen Allen and co-driver Damien Connolly, in their Toyota Corolla WRC, won the Cork Forest Rally today.

Northern Ireland’s Glen Allen, driving a Toyota Corolla, leads the Cork Forest Rally, the sixth round of the McCauley Trailers National Forest Championship.

Leading from the start, Kevin Lynch and Francis Regan (Subaru WRC) won the Midleton Park Hotel Moonraker Rally, round four of the McCauley Trailers Irish Forest Rally Championship.

Gareth MacHale (Toyota Corolla WRC) extended his unbeaten run in the McCauley Trailers Irish National Forestry Championship with a fine victory in the Circuit of Wicklow Rally.

Competing in a World Rally Car on gravel surface for the first time, Gareth MacHale made it a winning debut in the Carrick on Suir Forest Rally, round one of the McCauley Trailers National Forest Championship.

WOMEN are most likely to care for a parent with Alzheimer’s disease around the clock in their own homes for more than six years, new research reveals.

Northern Ireland’s Kevin O’Kane and co-driver Mark Hanna have won the Killarney Forest Rally in their Subaru WRC.

With his nearest rival Robbie McGurk putting his Subaru off on this morning’s opening stage, (S.S. 7), overnight leader Kevin Lynch is cruising to victory in the Windscreen Centre Cork Forest Rally, the penultimate round of the McCauley Trailers National Forest Championship.

Derry’s Kevin Lynch and his co-driver Francis Regan in their KPL backed Subaru WRC will begin today's second and final leg of the Windscreen Company Cork Forest Rally with a comfortable lead of well over a minute.

THE MOONRAKER Rally, an event steeped in tradition, marks a beginning of an era for the Munster Car Club, the rally section of the now technically disbanded Munster Motor Cycle and Car Club, one of the oldest clubs in the sport that originally catered for four different aspects of motorsport.

At the half way point of the Circuit of Wicklow Forest Rally, round three of the McCauley Trailers Irish

Eddie Kinirons from Wicklow and co-driver, Greg Shinnors (Limerick), in a Toyota Celica, won the

THE KBB Doors National Forest Rally Championship continues with Sunday’s Circuit of Wicklow, the second round in as many weeks. Cork’s John McCarthy (Subaru 555) and Limerick’s Dermot Kelly (Escort WRC) are the top two entrants and both are capable of victory.

Cork driver John McCarthy, on his debut in the ex-Bertie Fisher Subaru 555 on the Carrick on Suir

THE Alzheimer Society of Ireland urges the Government urgently to upgrade services for sufferers of the disease. The group made the call following the publication of two surveys that examined the needs of Alzheimer sufferers before World Alzheimer Day on September 21.

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