Gardaí say there have been no powerline thefts since they arrested a number of gang members involved in this highly dangerous live cable robbery earlier this month.

It’s 50 years since arguably the greatest Connacht football rivalry of them all fired its first shots.

Cork 4-17 Clare 2-20

The turnstiles were clicking merrily at the Gaelic Grounds last night for this Munster hurling U21 opening round match, so much so that throw-in was delayed 15 minutes, to 7.45pm, as 6,000 fans made their way in .

Swollen rivers and today’s rolling storm front have left many inland towns on high flood alert.

ACCREATE was founded by Ronan Colleran in 2001, before being acquired by Imprint Plc in 2005.

Salary cuts and redundancies will form part of a wide-ranging cost savings exercise at the Irish Daily Star, the newspaper’s owners have announced.

St Thomas 3-11 Loughrea 2-11

Loughrea 1-12 Turloughmore 0-07

Loughrea, winners in 2006 and runners-up in two of the last three finals, booked their place in the Galway SHC semi-finals with a 2-10 to 1-13 win over neighbours and arch-rivals Mullagh yesterday.

GROUCHO Marx once observed: “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”

PAUL COOKE is to step down as managing director of Independent Star Limited — the publisher of the Irish Daily Star — at the end of this week.

CONVICTED child porn user Barry Watters is to ask a judge to jail Star Sunday editor Ger Colleran for contempt of court.

OVER the years the media and politicians exhibited an unhealthy deference towards the Catholic clergy and hierarchy in this country.

TIPPERARY manager David Power insists his team has nothing to fear against Cork in the ESB Munster MFC semi-final on May 12.

FROM comments about the Nuala O’Loan report one would think that collusion between the RUC and murderers was a particularly British phenomenon in which the police essentially gave a licence to an informant to murder people and engage in criminal activity as part of his supposed cover.

Cork 2-12 Mayo 1-11

A NEW GAA internet results service is up and running thanks to three Cavan natives, Vincent Kelly and current county seniors Micheal Lyng and Michael Hannon.

THE two owners of a Dublin-based recruitment firm are in line for an €8 million windfall after selling the company.

St Flannans 2-13 St Brendan's, Birr 1-14

St. Flannan's 2-6 Glanmire CC 1-4

Mayo 1-10, Galway 1-10

TG4 LADIES FOOTBALL ALL-IRELAND SEMI-FINAL:

GALWAY CITY is unusual. There are the PDs riding high in the national polls with a vertigo-inducing 3% or 4%.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has led the tributes to one of the country’s all-time sporting greats, Enda Colleran, aged 63.

ENDA COLLERAN, the last winning All-Ireland Galway captain in 1966 until Ray Silke lifted the Sam Maguire Cup 32 years later was remembered yesterday as a defender of outstanding quality who "lived life to the full".

GAA president Sean Kelly has led the tributes to the late great Enda Colleran who died on Wednesday night.

Former Galway GAA star Enda Colleran has died at his home in Barna aged 63.

NUIG 0-18 UL 1-5

Portumna 2-13 Loughrea 2-9

By Ryle Dwyer

NUIG 1-8