Castlemartyr 0-19 Cloughduv 1-16

County SHC champions, Drom-Inch had a comfortable 0-21 to 0-12 win over Burgess in the third round at Dolla yesterday.

They should have seen it coming!

IRELAND, which saw its financial system come closer to collapse than that of any euro nation, may now entice investors back to its bank bonds.

THE Government may try to transfer part of the €62 billion cost of bailing out its banks to the euro region’s rescue fund should policymakers allow the facility to buy stakes directly in lenders, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

OFFALY dairy farmer Kevin Heavin was overjoyed to be named Macra na Feirme’s FBD Young Farmer of the Year.

OFFALY dairy farmer Kevin Heavin has been selected as Macra na Feirme’s FBD Young Farmer of the Year after an exciting final in the Seafield Hotel, Gorey, Co Wexford, last night.

IRELAND’S “original ghostbuster” will address a meeting in Cork tonight.

A recovering heroin addict who robbed a man of his phone, cash and bank cards after his victim had invited him up to his hotel room has been given a seven-year sentence with the final three years suspended.

THE FAIRYTALE ended for Upperchurch Drombane in Semple Stadium yesterday, a season in which new ground was broken in the Tipperary SHC at both divisional and county level, and a tame ending it was.

OF THE four remaining teams in tomorrow’s Tipperary SHC semi-finals, one stands out. In what many will see as the main event, champions Toomevara continue their Kerry-like run through the back door, take on Drom & Inch, the only divisional champions still standing.

DLS Macroom 8-13 Hospital Herbertstown 1-4

Thurles CBS 4-21 Charleville CBS 1-3

SHOCK tactics were used yesterday in a hard-hitting road safety programme for schools.

UCD 2-16, Kilkenny 0-5

THE curtain fell on this year's Sciath na Scol hurling finals yesterday when the concluding eight finals were decided at Páirc Uí Chaoimh and Pairc Uí Rinn.

Limerick 1-20