The 1970 Hurling League final is a game remembered for all the wrong reasons

Having been forced to hang up his rugby boots, due to a recurring injury last year, Ireland and Munster’s Denis Leamy closed the book on a fabulous trophy-winning career.

It is easy to imagine the sense of awe that must have gripped the 1888 Lions as they embarked on what was essentially a voyage into the unknown.

FRANK GILES, an editor of The Sunday Times during the ’80s wrote: “The welcome at Russborough was invariably warm. Alfred and Clem, warned no doubt by the sound of the Jaguar’s tyres on the gravel, would be at the ready in the great hall, genuinely delighted by the sight of their guests.”

The weather gods were not shining for the final series of races of the Kinsale YC Spring Series.

In contrast to last week’s bruising battle, a dying, shifting breeze, pleasant sunshine and shortened courses were the order of the day for competitors in the North Sails-sponsored third week of the Kinsale Yacht Club Spring Series.

Easter Monday dawned overcast and breezy for the second week of the KYC Spring Series.

THE Chief Justice John Murray was among the chief mourners who yesterday attended the funeral of former mayor of Limerick, Clem Casey.

West Brom defender Neil Clement has been ruled out for the rest of the season as he continues to battle a long-term knee injury.

HARRY REDKNAPP has had a galvanising effect on everybody at Tottenham Hotspur, from the boardroom to the tearoom, but nobody encapsulates the north London revival more completely than Aaron Lennon.

PAUL O’SHEA is 10 points behind leader Clem McMahon in the Atec Premier Series with only two rounds remaining and is surprised to be there.

MONAGHAN'S Clem McMahon snatched Blessington's big Premier Series Grand Prix at Kill International in Co. Kildare today with a superb double clear on May Scott's 'Cobold'.

A gunman took six girls hostage at the high school in the Colorado mountain town of Bailey, using them as human shields for hours before he shot and fatally wounded a girl and then killed himself as a SWAT team moved in, authorities said.

A NAZI war criminal known as Doctor Death for his experiments that killed hundreds of prisoners during WWII is reported to have been found in Spain.

A Nazi war criminal known as “doctor death” for his experiments that killed hundreds of prisoners during World War II has been found in Spain, an Israeli website reported today, but Spanish police said they had not yet found the man.

THERE are all sorts of guys who have long playing careers. There are the heroes, men like Christy Ring, Mick Mackey, Eddie Keher, the immortal few who graced hurling’s biggest stage, becoming legends.

IT IS a dramatic story with an almost tragic plot twist that could now have a happy ending.

Ulster prop Clem Boyd has been forced to retire from professional game after being diagnosed with a heart condition.