AT THE western fringes of Co Galway at the hamlet of Claddaghduff an old road leads down to a beach. 

Castletroy 15 St Clement’s 0: Castletroy fully deserved their 15-point victory over Limerick rivals St Clement’s in the Munster Schools Senior Cup at Rosbrien yesterday but if anything, it was the losing side that emerged with their reputation considerably enhanced after a serious competitive encounter.

PBC 60 St Clement’s 0: The one-sided nature of this Munster Senior Cup clash was of scant use to either the victors or the vanquished at Rosbrien yesterday. 

A year ago Tony Martin and Stephen Clements combined to land the Connacht Hotel Handicap with Edeymi and they repeated the feat last night when Quick Jack stormed away with the first feature of the week at the Galway festival.

A mother has described the “dilemma” she faced with her two children after their car burst into flames in a lion enclosure.

The most booked models on the Fashion Week circuit had the waist circumference of a seven-year-old child (22 inches). Annmarie O’Connor explores the unwelcome return of the size zero debate.

Stephen Clements, a Cheltenham festival-winning jockey, enjoyed his biggest success in this country when driving Tony Martin’s Edeymi to victory in the Connacht Hotel Handicap at the first stage of Galway last night.

Cork County Council officials are involved in talks with 15 British military history groups in an effort to promote more visitors to the region.

Suspicion in the murders of a Texas district attorney and his wife has shifted to a violent white supremacist prison gang.

The head of Colorado’s prison service has been shot dead at his home and the gunman is on the loose.

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has thrown new £12m signing Daniel Sturridge into the fray for his side’s FA Cup third-round clash with non-league Mansfield at the One Call Stadium this afternoon.

The co-founder of one of the world’s most influential series of travel guides will be among the guests at this year’s Immrama Festival of Travel Writing in Lismore.

THE Ireland U18 schools’ side let an interval lead slip yesterday as they suffered defeat by Australia in Coolock in their season opener.

GETTING children to eat their greens has been an age-old problem for parents.

Residents and their families were today reduced to near tears after a police officer was killed by a car bomb in Omagh.

The pain of Cue Card’s defeat in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle will be a distant memory for Colin Tizzard as Oiseau De Nuit stormed up the hill to win the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase, the final race of the 2011 Cheltenham Festival.

LEINSTER had little trouble beating their southern rivals in this two-legged Section ‘A’ Schools Interprovincial challenge at Donnybrook yesterday.

A LATE flash of genius from Leinster out-half Alex O’Driscoll lit up an attritional A Schools interprovincial encounter in Midleton yesterday.

FOUR British riot squad officers have been charged with beating up a Briton now awaiting extradition to the United States to face terrorism charges when they arrested him, prosecutors said yesterday.

The 22-year-old actor Charlie Clements – who plays unlucky-in-love Bradley Branning – is set to leave 'EastEnders' in a dramatic storyline which will conclude in February, for the show’s 25th birthday.

A short film written and directed by a student as part of his master’s degree course is being shown at the Cannes Film Festival this week.

THE introduction of a back-door system sees the provincial losers of Leinster and Munster get a second chance of All-Ireland colleges hurling glory.

WOMEN have always known it to be true. No matter how often you cook his dinner, do his laundry or pass him the remote control when he is just too ill to cope with any sudden movement, you will always play second fiddle to a man’s love of his mammy.

THE PRODUCT of two years’ work and an integral part of the new County Development Plan, the much-awaited Rural Design Guide, by Cork County Council, is due for release in the first week of January 2004.

By Catherine Shanahan>BR> The North Eastern Health Board (NEHB) has received the consent of patients for an independent review of care and treatment by consultant obstetricians at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.

Defence lawyers today launched efforts to save Andrea Yates from execution after she was convicted of murder for drowning her five children in the bath.