A coroner has highlighted the need for extreme vigilance on farms after an inquest heard how a toddler died in a farmyard accident in West Cork last year.

The LÉ Aisling, which intercepted the IRA gun-running ship Marita Ann in 1984 and recovered bodies from Air India flight 182 in 1985, is being decommissioned, writes Sean O’Riordan.

The issue of clubs’ access to inter-county players took up much of the discussion at last night’s Cork County Board meeting, but county coaching officer Kevin O’Donovan once again issued a plea to clubs to have a debate on the county’s decline at senior level.

How this week 100 years ago was spent by the men and women behind the Rising

“It is a little unusual for a rugby school to put its head above the parapet with soccer.”

There will be some special guests at tomorrow’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open Pro Am at Royal County Down, as two teams of young golfers from Shannon Golf Club in Clare and Faithlegg Golf Club in Waterford reap their reward for winning the inaugural Irish Open Golf Skills Challenge.

Point-To-Point racing returned to Tralee racecourse on Saturday as the North Kerry Harriers meeting took place at the now-defunct Ballybeggan Park venue.

It is a reworking of an old maths lesson: Remember how ‘three into one won’t go’? Well, it might be time for some revision on that equation.

Clonakilty 1-15 Inniscarra 2-11

On a night when the legendary Lester Piggott cut the ribbon to officially open the new entrance building at Tipperary racecourse, it was Robert Tyner’s Young Finnegan who stole the show in the Healy Partners’ Architects Maiden Hurdle.

With ground conditions extremely testing at yesterday’s Doneraile Hunt point-to-point meeting at Dromahane, it was a case of the best wine being left until last as the Mark Spillane-trained Lanespark cemented his position as one of the best front-runners, participating in points, at present by recording a pillar-to-post success in the closing novice riders’ open.

Solid second-half defending helped Inniscarra to grind out victory over Valley Rovers in the opening round of the Premier IHC at Cloughduv yesterday.

Prowess on the playing pitch, a ‘strong’ accent and a separate language is what sets Irish people apart and makes us proud, pupils tell Claire O’Sullivan

TISSUE taken from a body washed up on a beach is to be analysed in an effort to unlock a 28-year-old mystery.

HUNDREDS of postal workers yesterday paid a poignant farewell to their Limerick colleague who died last Thursday when his mail delivery bike collided with a vehicle on his morning round.

GARDAÍ are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 40-year-old David Barry of Hollybrook Manor, Hollybrook Road, Clontarf, Dublin 3.

THREE GOALS in the opening half paved the way for Coachford Community School in a hopelessly one-sided Munster Senior A Vocational Schools football semi-final at Kilmichael yesterday.

Tyrrelspass (Westmeath) 1-7 Moorefield (Kildare) 0-7

Legal history was made in an Irish court today when an Irish businessman was arraigned by a US Federal judge via international satellite video link in relation to a corporate accounting scandal which wiped more than $1bn from the share price of communications giant Enterasys.

MIDLETON Farmers’ Market celebrated its fifth birthday at Whit weekend. Since it started, the growth of the Farmers’ Market Movement has been nothing short of phenomenal. There are now well over 100 markets in Ireland and others are opening at the rate of one a week.

THE attitude of a garda officer to the mystery roadside death of a cattle dealer seven years ago was examined in fine detail yesterday by the Morris Tribunal into allegations of corruption in his force.

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.