Cork SHC quarter-final: Sarsfields 3-20 St Finbarr’s 1-16

St Finbarr’s 3-12 Erin’s Own 1-9

Catlehaven 0-12 St. Finbarr’s 0-09

CIT 1-26 St Finbarr’s 1-12

David Young talks to residents in Limerick estates partly demolished after essential funds failed to materialise, and to the Rengeneration agency, which is due to disband in June

NOTHING spectacular about this St Finbarr’s victory at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday, simply a case of taking care of business.

THE world might be experiencing an economic meltdown and Ireland may be in an even worse state of flux thanks to imprudent speculation by bankers, builders and governments. Yet despite all this, the more conventional type of gambling remains as popular and fruitful as ever.

ST FINBARR’S produced a strong finish to get the better of Erin’s Own in the opening round of the Cork County SHC at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last night.

BRITISH bookmaker William Hill has thrown its support behind the proposed 2% revenue tax on betting firms’ online operations in Ireland.

St. Finbarr’s 0-13 Newcestown0-11

SEAN LACEY of the Edge Racing cycling team did what many deemed improbable when he claimed a sensational overall win at the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan in Killorglin yesterday.

LAST YEAR’S Kerry Group Rás Mumhan winner Timmy Barry has ruled out any chance of reclaiming the title and insists a stage win is about as much as he can aspire to, given the quality of the start-list for the race which begins today in Killorglin (4pm).

IT’S a measure of the greatness of this Nemo Rangers setup that they have delivered such a formidable riposte to last year’s quarter-final championship exit.

CORK’S wait for All-Ireland football glory was becoming exhausting before last month’s success and the Kavanagh family served as a perfect microcosm of that.

IT’S an all-city Cork SFC final, a battle between probably the two best sides in the county at the moment, as St Finbarr’s – albeit, riding their luck – wore down wasteful Carbery Rangers under lights at Pairc Ui Rinn on Saturday to book a final date with Nemo Rangers.

ST FINBARR’S proved too good for Ballincollig in last night’s Cork SFC quarter-final at Páirc Ui Rinn, winning 1-13 to 2-4, a run of late points working the oracle.

A GRIEVING son who lost his mother to cancer and a young woman whose baby died when he was just a day old were among the 10,000 participants in the four-mile Evening Echo Women’s Mini Marathon in Cork yesterday.

DRAMA and excitement in equal measure in Dunmanway on Saturday when St Finbarr’s survived a courageous O’Donovan Rossa challenge in this Evening Echo Cork SFC fourth round clash.

WITHIN hours of arriving in Ireland Dutch cyclist, Dion Beukeboom, outsprinted the race favourites Brian Kenneally and Paul Griffin to win the first stage of last year’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan, and trailed them all the way to the finish three days later when he ended up third overall.

NEW ZEALAND are to enter a team for the first time in the prestigious FBD Rás (May 23-30).

ST FINBARR’S are back in a senior final for the first time since 1993 following a deserved victory over favourites Carbery in an entertaining Evening Echo Cork county SFC semi-final at a Pairc Ui Rinn last night.

IT may be premature to forecast a return to the glory days for St Finbarr’s but at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last night they hinted of better things to come when claiming the scalp of 2006 and 2007 title-holders Erin’s Own in the quarter-final of the Cork SHC.

FROM a calamitous first half position, St Finbarr’s staged a storming recovery to beat Cloyne in last night’s Evening Echo Cork SHC second round clash at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

WILLIE MULLINS continued his build-up to next week’s Cheltenham Festival by recording a double with odds-on favourites Apt Approach and Citizen Vic at Fairyhouse yesterday.

Our Lady’s, Templemore 0-14 Doon CBS 1-8

ST FINBARR’S underscored their right to a place in Cork football’s top flight at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday evening when they stormed into an apparently unassailable lead and then withstood a late rally from gallant Newcestown in a the second half to an enthralling Cork Evening Echo IFC semi-final.

IN your report (June 13), Limerick Regeneration Agencies CEO Brendan Kenny seems to assert he is waiting for the residents of Weston Gardens, Rosbrien, to make up our minds about the regeneration of our semi-derelict estate.

PAINT used on a large house mural, lampooning the agency charged with the regeneration of Limerick’s sprawling council estates, was paid for by Limerick City Council, it was confirmed yesterday.

THERE was to be no hat-trick of victories for Bride Rovers over St. Finbarr’s in the Evening Echo Cork Co SHC at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last night where the Togher club survived a late scare before emerging winners by two points.

LAST year’s winner Craig Murphy did not compete but Douglas CS kept the senior boys’ individual title thanks to an impressive performance from Richard Quirke at the South Munster Schools cross-country championships hosted by Midleton CBS yesterday.

JOHNNY Murtagh, who will partner Dylan Thomas in today’s ‘King George’ at Ascot, was on the mark at Fairyhouse last night, scoring on debutant Capt Chaos in the Book Tickets Online Median Auction 2-Y-0 Maiden.

Over the years the Boylesports International at Dundalk has produced some really dramatic occasions and one wonders what lies in store this evening when six of the best greyhounds in these islands chase a prize of €25,000, easily the biggest for a one-off contest in these islands.

I WISH to reply to the letter from Cathal McCarthy (June 20) headlined ‘Priest is right about city problems.’

THE recent report by John Fitzgerald recommended that 100 additional gardaí be stationed in local bases in the communities at risk in Limerick.

I WOULD like to commend the former Mayor of Limerick, Cllr Joe Leddin, for his good intentions (Letters, June 27), but I deplore his method of defending our city. It is not wise to shoot the messenger for reminding us that the barbarians are still inside the gates.

AT half-time in this Evening Echo Cork Co SHC first round contest at splendid Fermoy on Saturday, the St. Finbarr’s selectors were seething. And with every justification.

FOLLOWING champion Newtownshandrum’s opening round Cork County SHC victory over Bride Rovers on Friday, Cloyne, the beaten finalists for the last two years, got down to business in fine style at Ballynoe yesterday when beating Killeagh 4-10 to 3-6.

“COSTNER caught out” was your main picture headline on Wednesday, April 26. What are you trying to do with this newspaper? What criteria do you apply to a story in order for it to merit front page headline status?

IN your edition of December 20, the following appears under the headline ‘Gay couples set for rights boost:’