Best of the breeds after gap of more than quarter of a century in Carbery’s Cork Beef Bull Championship

Two good Samaritans came to the rescue of a cat trapped on top of a 60-ft-high derelict building in Co Clare for more than 24 hours.

Michael Ryan knows where every conversation will turn ahead of a return to Croke Park. Tipp’s ongoing difficulties in the full-back line will ensure Cathal Barrett’s name crops up regularly over the coming weeks..

Donegal’s Donagh Kelly has won numerous Irish rallies some of which culminated in National and Tarmac Championship titles — one of three drivers to win both in the same season. Yet, the one rally that has eluded him is, ironically, the Joule Donegal International Rally.

Dovetailing the Triton Showers National Rally Championship and the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship doesn’t pose any huge problems for Monaghan’s Sam Moffett, who leads the former and is second in the latter. It’s an interesting combination as he drives a Fiesta WRC in the National series and a Fiesta R5 on the Tarmac campaign.

A mother planning to deliver naturally following a C-section 14 months previously, lost her baby two days after birth.

A savage amount of rain has fallen in the last week and I just wonder did the underfoot conditions contribute to so many injuries in Semple Stadium and Nowlan Park yesterday?

It was a simple and dignified ceremony, straight-forward and to the point with little or no fuss, one he himself would have been proud of.

The President and Taoiseach joined hundreds of mourners at today’s funeral Mass for former tánaiste Peter Barry.

The recent tradition of the Galway Plate catapulting relatively unheralded young jockeys to public prominence continued yesterday as 20-year-old Donagh Meyler steered the Gigginstown House Stud-owned Lord Scoundrel to victory in the Ballybrit showpiece.

A coroner’s court has heard how hotels and nearby buildings were evacuated and guests rescued from bedrooms in the wake of an early-morning gas explosion at a Killarney town centre laundrette three years ago.

Apprentices Donnacha O’Brien and Donagh O’Connor both recorded doubles in Dundalk last night.

Odds-on favourite Up For Review romped to an impressive win in the Grade 2 Dorans Pride Novice Hurdle, rescheduled from Limerick on Tuesday, in Punchestown yesterday.

Donagh O’Sullivan from Glengarriff has secured the Young Carer of the Year title, while Jennifer Carroll was one of 22 family carers from across Ireland honoured yesterday for their caring roles.

Trainer Johnny Levins divulged that the Ayr Gold Cup next September is the long-term target for Your Pal Tal following the progressive five-year-old’s victory in last night’s opener in Dundalk.

The Andy Oliver-trained debutant Vitally Important looked a smart prospect when bolting-up in the Dundalk Stadium – Light Up Your Night Maiden in Dundalk last night.

A 38-year-old man died in the country’s 20th farm accident this year when a wheel he was fitting exploded. It was the third tragedy to befall his family.

Jim Bolger and Kevin Manning shared a double with classy two-year-olds Parish Boy and Lucida in Naas yesterday.

Writing is a way of understanding life and a way of having space to think.

A landmark hotel in Killarney, Co Kerry, has still not reopened after being damaged a month ago by a fatal gas explosion nearby.

The irony of how a gentle person who loved peace and nature could die in a terrifying gas explosion that ripped through his launderette was reflected upon by mourners at his dignified funeral service yesterday.

Emergency services at the scene of a fatal gas explosion in Killarney, Co Kerry, at the weekend did not immediately carry out a search of the scene because of safety concerns for their personnel.

A relative of a 59-year-old businessman, killed in a suspected gas explosion, has called for sensors to be made available to emergency services to check if a trapped person is alive inside a building.

A suspected gas explosion that rocked Killarney, Co Kerry, at 6.20am on Saturday claimed the life of a popular local businessman, further loss of life being avoided due to the early hour of the blast.

Tipperary’s senior footballers will be without influential pair Brian Fox and Michael Quinlivan for next Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final against Kerry in Killarney.

The wife of former Tánaiste Peter Barry was described at her funeral Mass yesterday as “a lady in the best sense of the word” who had a caring heart that reached out to all.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was among the substantial crowd of mourners who last night attended the removal of Margaret Barry, wife of former tánaiste and minister for foreign affairs, Peter Barry.

The death has occurred of Margaret Barry, the wife of former tánaiste and minister for foreign affairs Peter Barry and the mother of Fine Gael Senator Deirdre Clune.

Castletownbere 0-12 Adrigole 0-6

Where do Kilkenny get their hunger?

Tipperary senior hurling manager Declan Ryan has cut seven players from an extended squad ahead of next Saturday’s Waterford Crystal Cup quarter-final against UL — including 2010 All-Ireland winner Pat Kerwick.

A CANOVEE guild member has won the national ICA Trophy for Reporting.

WARREN Gatland put the Wellington boot into Ireland’s World Cup dreams here today as green dreams of the Webb Ellis Trophy went up in smoke.

EIGHTY-SIX miles separates the GAA club in Castletownbere and the Páirc Uí Rinn pitch where they hope to claim the Cork intermediate football trophy against Kinsale tomorrow afternoon.

Longford 0-11 Kerry 1-12

First-time Fitzgibbon Cup semi-finalists GMIT have been rocked with the news that top scorer Andrew 'Shocks' O’Shaughnessy will miss tomorrows penultimate round game against reigning champions Limerick IT, because of a broken toe.

Glanmire 1-8 Castletownbere 1-7

ECHOES of a brave dead woman who lost her long battle with cancer just over a month ago can be heard on a CD she recorded shortly before her death.