A community council has restored a once-derelict cottage which was the birthplace of the first patron of the GAA, Archbishop Thomas William Croke, and plans to turn it into a museum.

Waterford United 0 Cork City 2: Cork City have booked their place in the third round of the EA Sports League Cup with a win in the Munster Derby clash with Waterford United at the RSC yesterday.

Waterford United 2 Cobh Ramblers 1

Cork City 2 Waterford United 0

Waterford United 2 Avondale United 1

Sligo secretary Gerry O’Connor believes a lack of interest in the race to succeed Kevin Walsh as football boss is not linked to the financial constraints set to be imposed on the county as it tackles a €1.5m debt.

Bruff emerged in brilliant sunshine yesterday to stake its rightful place in the heritage of the Kennedy clan.

Finn Harps 2 Wexford Youths 1

Cobh Ramblers 5 Wexford Youths 0

A national early warning system designed to trigger an early response to deteriorating patients has yet to be applied to maternity care, it emerged yesterday.

The Dr Crokes press evening was coming to a close when Brian Looney fielded a ball lobbed in about the Kerry club’s style.

Croke Rovers 0-16 Robert Emmetts 0-05

Two Offaly football heavyweights met in today’s county SFC final in Tullamore with Rhode pulling through to claim their 25th title, moving them within one of Tullamore on the honours list.

ST. MARY'S COLLEGE 17 UL BOHEMIANS 13

Mervue United 0 Wexford Youths 0

SD Galway 0 Limerick FC 1

Wexford Youths 4 SD Galway 1

Drogheda United 1Wexford Youths 0

Wexford Youths deservedly won this south east derby at the RSC last night to end Waterford United’s chances of automatic promotion to the Airtricity League of Ireland Premier Division.

Last Sunday week, the closing mass of the Eucharistic Congress was held in Croke Park.

Dean Broaders came to Wexford Youths’ rescue yesterday as his penalty 16 minutes from time saw the Airtricity League side force a replay against Douglas Hall in their FAI Ford Cup second round tie at Moneygourney.

Anyone involved in our court system listening to early-morning radio reports on Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik’s trial might be forgiven it they pulled up mid-stride, aghast at what they heard from Oslo.

A TWO-GOAL salvo in the opening two minutes of the second-half from Colm Cooper decided yesterday’s Munster Club SFC quarter-final at sunny Fraher Field, Dungarvan.

CARLOW IT claimed the IRCU Division 1 title with a very impressive 30-17 win against Athlone IT at the CIT campus, Bishopstown yesterday evening.

ALL dental practices across the country will have to display private fees from June.

THE GAA will conclude their 125 celebrations on Sunday in Thurles, on the anniversary of the day the Association was founded in Hayes Hotel in 1884.

FIVE points from replacements Graham O’Connell and David T Clifford proved the deciding factors as Austin Stacks defeated An Ghaeltacht 0-13 to 0-8 in yesterday’s poor Kerry SFC third-round clash at Austin Stack Park.

Old Belvedere 30 UCD 14

DETAILS of staff working in a Government department were on the missing laptop at the centre of the latest data security scare.

THE High Court has cleared the way for a former Waterford Crystal worker, who has alleged fraud by the company in the operation of its pension scheme in the 1990s, to proceed with claims that the Irish Pensions Trust fraudulently concealed his entitlement to seek a deferred pension when he was made redundant.

KEVIN KELLY’S abiding memory from the moment he was stabbed was the feeling that death would have been preferable to the pain caused by the knife.

ONE of Ireland’s top PR executives yesterday told the High Court of his outrage and anger that information was leaked to a number of Sunday newspapers that he was in talks with Bank of Ireland (BoI) for the post of group head of corporate communications.

Kerry 3-13 Cork 1-9

A YOUNG man who was wearing his seatbelt died after his car hit a greasy patch on the road and ploughed into another car.

AN INTERNAL Customs review of security at the country’s smaller airports has endorsed the system being used.

Terenure College 22 Clonakilty 31

Ballingarry 1-19 Killenaule 1-19

Waterford SHC

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AN IRISH group spearheading a European legal challenge to the workplace smoking ban has managed to raise close to €10,000 in just 10 days to fight its case.