Clonmel and Bandon were last night celebrating memorable Munster club title successes.

Barack Obama and House of Representatives speaker John Boehner met at the White House amid talks to avert America’s impending “fiscal cliff” as a growing number of Republicans in Congress appeared to be veering towards accepting the president’s demand that the wealthy must pay more tax.

COLIN McENTEE’S Leinster A couldn’t add the scalp of London Welsh to those of Esher, Melrose and Llanelli at Donnybrook yesterday but a draw was enough to secure a home quarter-final in the British & Irish Cup.

ROY KEANE and his family have scored with a modest property investment on South Mall, Cork — buying a four-storey building for the price of a mediocre Championship league footballer.

US president Barack Obama clashed angrily with Republican senators at a Washington lunch where they accused him of duplicity, audacity and unbending partisanship.

Convicted paedophile Gary Glitter has been banned from travelling to France and Spain under an order granted by UK magistrates, it emerged today.

Paedophile singer Gary Glitter is to fight an application for an order that will require him to register as a sex offender, his solicitor told a court today.

Followers of Nicky Henderson were left delighted after the master of Seven Barrows struck with his only two runners – Treasury Counsel and Theft – at Kempton.

THE Miss Ireland competition is strutting into Cork this summer.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own.

Nemo Rangers 1-12 Errigal Ciaran 0-11

Michael Barrymore will not face perjury charges following an inquest into the death of a man found floating in his swimming pool.

THE former drugs counsellor of Michael Barrymore has said he saw the entertainer swimming in the pool in which partygoer Stuart Lubbock was found dead.

Entertainer Michael Barrymore tonight denied claims he had lied to the coroner’s court which had investigated the death of a man found floating in his swimming pool.