A terminally ill cancer patient chose not to press charges against a nurse who allegedly withdrew money from his account without consent because “he didn’t want to see her again”, a disciplinary inquiry has heard.

Heading into Croke Park for yesterday’s league semi-finals, the majority of form watchers would be very familiar with the three heavyweights on show — Dublin, Kerry and Donegal — and more looking forward to getting a closer look at Roscommon.

France 34 Ireland 13: First-half tries from Peter Claffey and James Ryan weren’t enough to secure Ireland’s first win in five Six Nations outings, as the French were too good at Narbonne.

DCU 6-14 Athlone IT 1-7: Monaghan’s Shane Carey fired a brilliant 3-6 as holders Dublin City University made a strong statement of their intention to capture back-to-back Sigerson Cup titles for the first time.

Family, friends and politicians bade a final farewell to PJ Mara yesterday as the former government press secretary was laid to rest in Co Galway.

Any political party which gains power in the next general election must ensure its policies undergo strict social and economic tests to examine what impact they will have on rural areas left “devastated” by the recession.

Mayo 3-8 Westmeath 1-13

ALL-IRELAND SHC ROUND 1:

Galway 3-10 Westmeath 0-9

A journalist who claimed he was made redundant from a local radio station because of his coverage of the Corrib gas controversy in north Mayo has been awarded €47,000 compensation by the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

Clare 1-16 Galway 0-7

Ireland’s World Cup qualification campaign finally got off the ground in Sweden at the weekend, but not everyone connected to the team is having quite as much luck.

Munster Schools 23 Connacht Schools 15

Roscommon could afford to hit 12 wides and still gain a comfortable win over Antrim at Hyde Park yesterday.

Leitrim 0-06 Roscommon 2-12

All-Ireland SFC Quarter-Final

ROSCOMMON boss Fergal O’Donnell has opted to keep faith with the team that sprung a major surprise in the recent Connacht decider against Sligo for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Cork at Croke Park.

AROUND the fairyland beauty of Dooney Lake in Sligo on Sunday morning the elemental black and white flags were rippling and blossoming with hope that the dream would come true for the county’s footballers.

THIS is almost surreal.

London 0-6 Roscommon 0-14

IN Papillon, the epic 1973 film about a pair of criminals sent to French Guiana for a life of hard labour, one of the many mistakes Steve McQueen’s captors make is to give him a butterfly net. When Dustin Hoffman’s near-sighted Dega catches a rare and beautiful blue butterfly, McQueen bargains with a visiting insect dealer for a passage off their tropical island prison.

Cavan 0-14 Roscommon 0-6, Kingspan Breffni Park

The late Government minister Conor Cruise O’Brien was a modern-day prophet who wasn’t afraid to pay the price for his controversial views, his funeral mass heard today.

The size of the task interim manager Paul Earley and his successor face in ressurecting Roscommon football was plain to see at Parnell Park tonight as they were hammered 3-20 to 0-7 by an unforgiving Dublin side.

Meath 2-12 Roscommon 0-10, Breffni Park

IF only tomorrow’s Leinster Club senior hurling final between Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny) and Birr (Offaly) were being held a month ago – what a contest we’d have had in store!

Galway launched a superb second half fight back to hold onto their Connacht SFC crown at a wet Hyde Park.

OFFALY’S championship hopes have been dealt a major blow with the news that half-back Niall Claffey is out for six weeks - and will miss the showdown with Kilkenny.

Offaly 6-21 Carlow 4-7

Sales of high-powered aerials have soared in Sligo and Donegal following the shut down of North West Radio, it emerged today.

North West Radio has announced it is not proceeding with its Supreme Court appeal to the withdrawal of its broadcasting licence by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, and it will cease broadcasting on October 1.

A goal in the dying seconds of injury time from right corner-forward Kieran Murphy of Sarsfields dramatically preserved Cork’s unbeaten run in Division 1 ‘B’ of the Allianz National Hurling League at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

Chief executive of North West Radio, Paul Claffey, has said that Minister for Communications Dermot Ahern's expressed concern about the "transparency" and "fairness" of the current local radio licensing system, as operated by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, is welcome but does not go far enough.