All-Ireland Club IFC semi-final - St Mary’s (Kerry) 2-20 Ratoath (Meath) 1-5: Perhaps it was the talk of litmus tests and stern examinations that drove St Mary’s to such dizzying heights.

Munster Club IFC final - St Mary’s (Kerry) 1-16 Carrigaline (Cork) 0-9: Denis Daly is looking forward to a couple of weeks away from the football field, and boy has he earned the break. 

For seven of the St Mary’s team taking to the field for today’s Munster Club IFC final against Carrigaline in Killarney, it will be a 10th game in as many weeks.

St Mary’s 1-13 Spa 0-13: A Sean Cournane goal six minutes from time proved the decisive score in propelling St Mary’s to the summit of Kerry intermediate football.

A young music fan on his way to the Indiependence festival in Mitchelstown stopped on the road to check the cannabis herb in the boot of the car and to sniff it before putting it into another bag, but he did not realise he was literally under the nose of a garda.