The Republic of Ireland Under-19s began their UEFA Under-19 European Championship Elite Round campaign with an outstanding 5-0 win over Romania in Krasnodar, Russia.

Declan Rice won the Young Player of the Year, as previously announced last week, less than 24 hours before he was called up to the England squad. He was not pictured receiving his award.

A Polish primary school teacher was extradited to Ireland to face a charge of sexually assaulting a woman at a nightspot in Cork City when he was visiting for a two-week English language course.

Republic of Ireland 0 Germany 7 (Uefa U17 Championship finals): Ireland boss Colin O’Brien is certain his side can improve for Saturday’s Euro quarter-final against England after getting what he admitted was a “second chance” in Croatia.

Embracing history but charting a new path is the message for Ireland’s U17s hopefuls from their manager Colin O’Brien as they begin their Euro finals odyssey against Serbia in Croatia today.

A 70-year-old man was terrified in his own home when a woman he knew called to his house and then let her boyfriend in to hold the pensioner captive by knifepoint.

Match of the day in a busy weekend of divisional senior hurling championship games was the Mid Tipp clash of county champions, Thurles Sarsfields and divisional title-holders, Drom-Inch at Holycross yesterday.

A 15-year-old boy repeatedly punched a man twice his age at the entrance to a city- centre newsagents at three o’clock on a sunny afternoon — breaking the victim’s nose and jaw and putting him out of work for eight weeks.

Seán Hehir and Maria McCambridge capitalised on the domestic entry at the 34th Airtricity Dublin Marathon yesterday to become the first joint Irish winners since 1993 in two exciting duels that ebbed and flowed as record numbers took to the streets for the classic distance.

Sergiu Ciobanu (Clonliffe Harriers) coasted to victory in the 36th running of the Ballycotton 10 mile road race.

Fionnuala Britton was already looking to the future after yesterday’s sensational performance at the European Cross-Country Championships in snowy Budapest.

Fionnuala Britton has created history by becoming the first ever woman to retain the European cross country title and has led Ireland to the team gold.

Joe Sweeney of Dundrum South Dublin Athletic Club triumphed in yesterday’s Woodie’s DIY National Inter-County Cross Country Championships at Tattersalls in Meath.

County SHC champions, Drom-Inch had a comfortable 0-21 to 0-12 win over Burgess in the third round at Dolla yesterday.

Strong wind at Santry Stadium played a telling factor on Day One of the 2012 Woodies DIY National Track and Field Championships today.

A son of the mayor of Galway will be sentenced in June for the violent sexual assault of a nurse in a laneway.

A son of the mayor of Galway who violently sexually assaulted a nurse in a laneway causing her severe head injuries will face sentencing in June.

Struck-off solicitor Thomas Byrne was charged today with stealing more than €2m from clients in connection with the purchase of an apartment building in Dublin.

SOME of Ireland top young talents secured qualification for international events at the Woodie’s DIY AAI Games at windswept Santry yesterday.

The Irish team are in a positive mood despite two withdrawals ahead of this weekend's World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh.

ALISTAIR CRAGG is favourite to win the Woodies DIY National Cross-Country Championships at his first attempt in Belfast this afternoon.

FÁILTE Ireland has defended figures which showed a 5% drop in overseas visitors to the mid-west.

A man who subjected a female student to more than hour of horrific sexual and physical assault near her south Dublin home in the early hours of the morning has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.

Cashel CS 2-11 Midleton CBS 1-9

Thurles CBS 2-15 Coláiste Chríost Rí 1-2

St Colmans 3-12 Cashel CS 4-9