A local authority has given the green light for the major expansion of one of Dublin’s largest shopping centres, which is to include the development of an Olympic-standard ice rink.

Strong cattle prices boosted farm income in 2015 but there was a big fall in milk price, according to the Teagasc National Farm Survey.

A couple who owned a famous Galway pub-restaurant have spent €900,000 on living expenses from the proceeds of property sales and have not used any of it to pay off a debt to a bank of nearly €20m, a court has heard.

Germany’s largest pension scheme group is eyeing an Irish retail property splurge as part of a €1.3bn pan-European investment plan.

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.

IRELAND has a 18-to-24 month window of opportunity to attract international capital to quality assets to be disposed of — after that, revaluation of other competing assets in countries like France, Spain, and Holland will add to the competition for mobile capital.

Kerry defeated Sligo in a senior football challenge at Rathkeale on Saturday, with Bryan Sheehan featuring for the first time since the Kingdom’s Munster championship victory over Tipperary.

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Austin Stacks, without Kieran Donaghy, overpowered Spa in a Kerry SFL Division One mismatch (5-9 to 0-7) at windswept Connolly Park yesterday.

Reigning county football champions UCC opened their defence of the title with a facile victory over Seandún at Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

Full-forward Kieran Donaghy will take on the captaincy role for Kerry's opening Allianz Football League Division 1 clash with Dublin on Saturday night (throw-in 7.15pm).

JACK O’CONNOR insists it was Brian Moran’s decision to play for Kerry ahead of UCC over the weekend.

TOMMY GRIFFIN has announced his retirement from inter-county football after 12 senior seasons with Kerry.

ATTACKER Kevin O’Sullivan is set to return to the Cork senior football squad for their 2012 seasonal opener in the McGrath Cup against Clare on Sunday.

WEST KERRY brushed past a disappointing Kerins O’Rahillys in this one-side Kerry SFC quarter-final at Austin Stack Park, Tralee on Saturday.

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ECONOMIC performance is higher on organic farms than on conventional farms.

FAVOURITES Salthill/Knocknacarra qualified for the semi-finals after a four-goal blitz of Moycullen at Pearse Stadium yesterday.

GALWAY SFC champions Killererin were dumped out of this year’s competition after being taken apart by an outstanding Salthill/Knocknacarra in Corofin yesterday.

LIGHT winds on Dublin Bay ended the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta in marked contrast to Thursday’s opening race near gale conditions and left close results across the fleet before the overall prize was awarded to the class two entry Supernova from the host port.

FARMERS are taking an optimistic view of future opportunities for the agri-food sector, according to the Teagasc National Farm Survey results for 2010.

A deflected goal from Cork senior star Paul Kerrigan was the turning point for Cork IT as they overcame Limerick on a 2-8 to 0-11 scoreline in today's McGrath Cup quarter-final at Foynes.

THE availability of David Moran will certainly enhance Kerins O’Rahillys chances of victory in Sunday’s AIB Munster Club football final at the Gaelic Grounds, but selector and trainer Mark Fitzgerald refuses to view his return from Australia as no more than achieving just that.

THERE was a serious question mark hanging over Kerins O’Rahillys ability to win in Austin Stack Park yesterday until Declan Quill inspired them with a 53rd-minute goal.

BILLY DENNEHY had big boots to fill at Cork City, although admittedly they belonged to the diminutive Liam Kearney who wrote himself into club folklore during five successful seasons.

JACK O’CONNOR won’t have long to dwell on the disappointment of yesterday’s dramatic Kerry football final defeat to Mid Kerry.

GLENFINN Captain, successful on his seasonal debut at the track, continued on an upward curve with a smooth victory in the Clonmel Oil Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

Glenfinn Captain showed he has fully recovered from a bout of colic that almost cost him his life by winning the Clonmel Oil Chase.

WILLIE MULLINS ran two in last night’s featured Gleneagle Summer Cabaret Chase at Killarney and won with the outsider of the pair, 10-1 shot Davenport Democrat.

AFTER stepping down as coach of the Clare senior team in 2005, Kerryman John Kennedy was looking forward to a break from football.

WITH defending champions Armagh having surrendered their crown, tomorrow’s All-Ireland U-21 football semi-finals take on added significance.

THE Waterford selectors have sprung a major surprise by handing Portlaw’s Jack Hartley his debut at midfield for Sunday’s vital Division 1B National Hurling League game against Offaly in Birr.

The Munster Under-21s were convincing 21-3 winners over the Leicester Academy over the weekend.

THE introduction of a back-door system sees the provincial losers of Leinster and Munster get a second chance of All-Ireland colleges hurling glory.

St Flannan's 1-11 Thurles CBS 1-6

Thurles CBS 1-10 Cashel CS 1-4

Thurles CBS 3-14 St Colman’s 1-12

Thurles CBS 2-15 Coláiste Chríost Rí 1-2

Tyrone 0-12 Kerry 0-10

Kerry 0-13 Cork 1-7