Ballyduff Lower (Waterford) 0-15 Kilgarvan (Kerry) 0-5: Ballyduff Lower outsmarted a plucky Kilgarvan at Walsh Park on Saturday to make the last four of the Munster junior hurling championship.

Meath 1-10 Armagh 0-8: On goes Meath’s winter of content.

Those who partitioned Meath from Westmeath around 500 years ago didn’t do the Lake County any favours, not in Gaelic football terms at least.

An intriguing feature of the build-up to Meath’s first championship outing was the positivity of the players and their insistence that Dublin aren’t unbeatable.

Dozens of students are still awaiting a decision on college grants, having failed to satisfy the awarding body they are estranged from their parents.

Waterford SFC: Although this latest renewal lacked the usual bite, keen rivals The Nire and Stradbally still served up a six-goal spectacle at Fraher Field on Saturday evening.

Rathgormack sub Jamie Kirwan grabbed a decisive goal in injury time at Fraher Field on Saturday to secure their first win of 2014 and inflict a second defeat on Clashmore.

Two years ago, St Saviours and Ballinameela faced off in a battle to avoid the drop from top flight football but this weekend both booked their places in the Waterford SFC quarter-finals.

Three coffins; three hearses outside the church in the village of Crooke; three men who loved boats and fishing from the time they could walk.

A small coastal community in Co Waterford is shrouded in tragedy this morning following the deaths of three brothers who drowned when their fishing boat capsized.

Kildorrery 4-19 Butlerstown 0-11

NAVY divers have been placed on alert for a possible return to Hook Head next Wednesday for a fresh attempt to recover the bodies of five fishermen missing since the Pere Charles sank 10 days ago.

THE coastal communities devastated after two trawlers sank without trace off the south coast united in prayer yesterday as the search continued for a second day.

The coastal communities devastated after two trawlers sank without trace off southern Ireland united in prayer today as the search continued for a second day.

THE vigil continued on the pierside from first light.

ONE of five fishermen missing off the Irish coast was the third generation of his family to drown at sea.

BUNCRANA was a town loath to awaken yesterday, its shop shutters drawn and windows darkened as if to acknowledge the new day would be to let in the pain it bore.

Portlaw 0-18 Shamrocks 1-2

A witness has told the Saville Inquiry how he saw a female friend injured by a rubber bullet fired by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday more than 32 years ago.

Nire 1-9 Ardmore 0-8

Stradbally 3-9, Nire 3-6

MORE than eight out of 10 ambulance medics and firefighters have experienced physical violence, according to a confidential survey.

GANGS of young thugs are targeting homeless people for “kicks”, according to the Simon Community.

Irish rescue services personnel staged a special Mass in Dublin today, to salute their United States counterparts who died in the terrorist attack on America.