Dublin criminal and serial child abuser Stephen "Rossi" Walsh will apply for bail pending appeals against his separate convictions for rape, indecent assault and defilement of a child.

OH GOD.

Crystal Swing's Derek Burke has made his way into the record books.

They hucklebucked the night away at a very special birthday bash in East Cork last night.

FORMER Miss Ireland and social columnist Amanda Brunker will no doubt be hitting a few high notes when she joins seven other celebrities taking the reins of GAA teams for the hit RTÉ series Celebrity Bainisteoir.

CORK crooner Derek Burke and his Co Kerry football team swung into top gear to clinch the coveted title in this year’s Celebrity Bainisteoir by a slender one-point win.

CRYSTAL SWING singer Derek Burke, 18, famed for his hucklebuck, is over the moon having clocked up enough points to get into “any college” he wants.

One of the most famous students of the class of 2010 has picked up his results.

CRYSTAL SWING singer Derek Burke is bringing a special someone to his graduation ball today after RTÉ presenter Lucy Kennedy agreed to be his date for the evening.

INTERNET singing sensations Crystal Swing played a sold out gig at Cork Opera House last night amid reports that they are set to perform on stage with British singer Lily Allen this summer.

IT WAS one of those seminal TV moments when you knew that nothing would ever be the same again.

The jury in the trial of a Tipperary man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend has heard that no evidence of value was found during a forensic examination of the scene.

The trial of a 30-year-old man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend in a bedroom in her Tipperary home last year has begun at the Central Criminal Court.

CIARÁN POWER (Pezula Racing) put five days of misery behind him to win the stage and put himself right up in contention for what would be a sensational third FBD Milk Rás victory at the end of a 112 mile trip from Skibbereen to Clonmel that wrought havoc at the top of the general classification sheet where Simon Richardson (Plowman Craven) now holds the overall lead and former race leader, Stephen Gallagher (An Post/Sean Kelly), moves back up to within 10 seconds of reclaiming pole position.

LAST October Ken Hanson came over from California to visit his aunt and cousins in Leitrim and yesterday his relations were celebrating his return to the county of his ancestry as he claimed the first yellow jersey of this year’s FBD Insurance Rás in Ballinamore.

CIARAN POWER (Pezula) would like to take his place among the legends of Irish cycling next week by winning the FBD Insurance Rás for the third time.

CIARÁN POWER (Pezula Racing) may have been dumped on the scrapheap when the Sports Council were handing out their grants to elite sports people, but he was at the top of the pile yesterday evening when he won the opening stage of the Pauline Sugrue Auctioneers Rás Mumhan into Killorglin.

BOBBY POWER, one of the legends of Irish cycling, will be back on the bike on Sunday for the Lacey Cup in Tralee — a race he won back in 1975.

PHILIP DEIGNAN’S performances to date in the Tour of Germany would indicate he has hit form at precisely the right time in advance of the Tour of Ireland professional cycle race which gets underway with an exciting stage from Kilkenny to Cork tomorrow week.

BRIAN KENNEALLY (MyHome.ie/BDBC) won Rás Mumhan in a pulsating finish in Killorglin yesterday.

THE Martin Donnelly Junior Tour arrived in Carrick-on-Suir last night with no change to the overall positions.