Three teams in the lower half of All-Ireland League Division 1A all won on Saturday

Ulster and All-Ireland U21 FC champions Tyrone had a successful first defence of their titles last night, beating Cavan 2-10 to 0-10 at Kingspan Breffni Park.

Bishopstown 1-20 Killeagh 1-11: Bishopstown retained their Cork senior hurling status in style at Riverstown on Saturday. One wondered how they were ever in this relegation decider such was their assertive and forceful play.

Spectacular conditions made for a perfect end to Calves Week at Schull Harbour Sailing Club yesterday where lady skippers were the highlight of the prize-giving ceremony.

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Conor Doyle was determined not to let a cruel picture caption get him down.

Dublin teenager Conor Doyle has a powerful story to share about a painful incident of cyber bullying that pushed him into massive change for the better.

After Wednesday’s weather spectacular in West Cork, light winds returned for the Cork Dry Gin Calves Week fleet for a three-hour race around the islands of Roaringwater Bay.

Spectacular conditions on Roaringwater Bay rewarded the 76 boats competing in Cork Dry Gin Calves Week yesterday as the race committee opted to bring forward the long race around the Fastnet lighthouse from today’s original schedule.

SAILING: A soft day marked the opening race at Cork Dry Gin Calves Week yesterday and with it, light to moderate winds and thundery rain just as racing ended.

Newbridge College 14 Cistercian College Roscrea 3

Robbie Keane netted a second-half hat-trick as the Los Angeles Galaxy beat Real Salt Lake 4-2 and move within four points of the MLS Western Conference leaders.

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

STUDENTS taking part in discredited Christmas celebrations which led to 13 arrests on Wednesday night availed of special cut-price drink offers in some Waterford city pubs earlier that day.

LAST Sunday at Crosshaven more than 70 boats participated in the Autumn Series, Whitesail 1 and Whitesail 2 together with Classes 3 and 4 raced in the harbour.

The Cork-based Doyle shipping group has sold its share holding in the Irish Continental Group (ICG), which operates Irish Ferries, for €47m.

AN ICONIC ship that last sailed the seas more than a century ago is to be painstakingly recreated by a team of craftsmen in Co Cork.

Cyprus U-21 0 Republic of Ireland U-21 0

DERBY County’s highly-rated American-born striker Conor Doyle is in line for a debut when the Irish U21s take on Cyprus in a friendly in Larnaca today (kick off 2.30pm local time).

WIGAN midfielder James McCarthy has been named in Noel King’s 19-man squad U21 for their friendly international against Cyprus in Larnaca on February 9.

Republic of Ireland U21 head coach Noel King has this evening announced a 19-man squad for the upcoming U21 International friendly against Cyprus which will take place on Wednesday, February 9 at the GSZ Stadium in Larnaca (kick-off: 2.30pm, local time).

MORE than 1,000 sailors took to the water at Crosshaven on a mild and sunny autumn weekend, three-quarters of them competing in the opening session of the O’Flynn Exhams Autumn League Series from the RCYC.

ONE 51 and the Cork- based Doyle Group’s indicative offer of over €500 million for Irish Continental Group (ICG) has cleared up any confusion about its intentions.

CONDITIONS were quite horrible for the final race of the PC Scaffold May Mid Week league at Kinsale, southerly winds of 20 knots gusting, a big swell, poor visibility and rain-like needles to compound the misery.

A MOTHER yesterday revealed her dread of the frenzied killer who savagely murdered her daughter after she helped get him jailed for at least five more years.

A murder victim’s mother today revealed her dread of the frenzied killer seeking revenge after helping get him locked up for at least five more years.

A chef who knifed his ex-girlfriend to death in a frenzied rage was today ordered to spend at least five more years in jail.

GLORIOUS autumnal conditions favoured the Royal Cork Offshore Day and, in a light to moderate south easterly breeze Class One sailed around the Cork Buoy, down to the Bullman Buoy off Kinsale and back to the finish at Roches Point.