With grown men banging the blue-boarded track and a raucous crowd standing on their feet as John Travers broke eight minutes for the 3,000m, it truly was Super Sunday at the Woodie’s DIY National Indoor Championships in Athlone in a day to remember for Irish athletics aficionados.

Munster Rugby are hoping Cork senior hurler Darren Sweetnam can make as big an impact with the oval ball as he has this summer with a sliotar.

An exhibition with a difference takes place in Cork this weekend in a unique exchange of ideas and creativity.

A 14-MONTH-OLD baby boy was found dead in his car seat after spending three hours in a parked car on a warm day in July last year, an inquest heard yesterday.

“THE famine is over, let the feast begin,” rejoiced team captain Kieran Bermingham after his fledgling north city Limerick club, set up in 1968, won a first county senior hurling title with a comprehensive victory over Ahane at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

A NINE-point victory for Drom-Inch. And after completely outclassing their opponents it was the least they deserved.

A LEADING West Cork food producer has been taken to task by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for breaching limits on discharges from its waste water treatment plant.

Mary Cullen broke away from the field in the final 400 metres to win gold in the 1500 metres final at the Woodie's DIY Irish Indoor Championships in Belfast.

PROPERTY developers have been forced to sell many new homes at a loss this year due to the downturn in the construction industry, according to leading builders.

It was with a very real sense of journalistic integrity then, reader, that I too undertook my task, shackled to a very sick head

HELLO, how are you old chap?

RURAL areas would be affected significantly by spending cuts recommended in the Bord Snip report which include the closure of at least half the country’s garda stations and up to 1,000 small primary schools.

LIKE the old ladies cackling as they did their knitting at the foot of the guillotine in revolutionary France, Mary Coughlan cut an unrepentant figure as she sliced the life out of parliamentary democracy.

Na Piarsaigh 2-12 Dohenys 0-12 (after extra-time)

A woman whose two sons were treated at the Central Mental Hospital today said it was shameful for the Government to plough ahead with relocation plans despite the advice of experts.

OUTSIDERS Ballincollig produced the shock of the Evening Echo Cork SFC opening round at Ovens yesterday when defeating kingpins Nemo Rangers 3-4 to 1-7 to guarantee themselves senior status for at least another year.

DARREN SUTHERLAND (St. Saviours OBA) added the national senior title to his CV with a power-packed performance that overwhelmed Edward Healy (Portlaoise) in the third round of their middleweight final at the finals of the National senior championships last night.

THE Evening Echo-sponsored Cork SFC first round got into full swing over the weekend with Bantry Blues overcoming all the odds to beat Clonakilty 0-12 to 0-10 in a disappointing derby clash at Castlehaven yesterday.

THE Munster Senior football League kicked back into action this weekend with the pick of the eight contests being the meeting of Clonakilty and Kerins O’Rahilly’s in Tralee in Division One.

The chairman of a rival club has rejected blame following allegations that two of the talented Ó hAilpín brothers from Cork were racially abused during a club game.

WHILE last Sunday’s senior All-Ireland hurling loss to Kilkenny will still be weighing heavily on the minds of most of the Tipperary lads, the period of mourning lasted all of 24 hours for ace corner-forward Eoin Kelly.

SETANTA Ó hAILPÍN has been cleared to play with Cork in tonight’s Munster U21 HC semi-final against Limerick at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (7.30).