THE AA was receiving a call-out to stricken drivers every 30 seconds at one point yesterday as commuters fought through sub-zero temperatures to get to school or work.

DRAMA at the end of this cracking Harty Cup third round group game in Ballybrown yesterday, fortunes swaying first one way and then the other, a precious quarter-final berth at stake.

Thurles CBS v Blackwater College: Clonmel (All games 2.30pm throw-in)

THIS year’s Dr Harty Cup (Munster Colleges SAHC) has produced outstanding games and tomorrow’s semi-finals should continue that trend.

ST. CAIMIN’S created history by winning their first ever Munster colleges football title at Feenagh yesterday.

Carrigaline CS 2-23 St. Caimin’s 1-11

TONY MULLINS’ Piercing Sun should be hard to beat in the Saltan Properties INH Stallion Owners’ EBF Novice Hurdle at Tramore this afternoon.

TONY MULLINS, fresh from a splendid Christmas, topped up at Tramore yesterday when Barrow Drive won the featured Wilf Dooly Chase in the hands of Barry Geraghty.

JIM DREAPER, who has his horses in fine shape, can strike again at Sligo this evening with Caimin’s Caper in the Yeats’ Country Bumper.