St Vincent’s 3-11 Portlaoise 0-10

Dublin SFC final

Séamus Sexton and Willie O’Donovan will contest what promises to be an exceptional Munster intermediate final at Jagoes Mills on Sunday.

St Vincents (Dublin) 4-12 Castlebar Mitchels (Mayo) 2-11

Diarmuid Connolly laid on a majestic performance at Croke Park, hitting a 2-5 tally to guide St Vincent’s to glory in the All-Ireland Club football final.

St Vincent’s 2-14 Ballinderry 1-13

St Vincent’s of Dublin will play Mayo kingpins Castlebar Mitchels in the AIB GAA All-Ireland club SFC final at Croke Park on St Patrick’s Day, after the two teams emerged from a pair of titanic and hugely entertaining tussles in today’s semi-finals.

Vincent’s 3-12 Portlaoise 3-09

ST LOMAN’S 0-9 ST VINCENT’S 0-11

Reigning AIB Ulster Club SFC Champions Crossmaglen Rangers bowed out following a replay defeat to Kilcoo today.

St Vincent's 1-9 Ballymun Kickhams 1-8

Ballymun Kickhams 0-20 St Vincent’s 1-17 (aet)

THE wife of a former garda superintendent whose chances of surviving cancer were significantly reduced by the actions of his doctor has spoken for the first time about the trauma of his illness, his death and their battle to extract the truth from their GP.

IT was sad to see that Iain Dorney (Letters, August 29) was disappointed at Martin Ferris, calling on Muammar Gaddafi to step down and prevent further bloodshed in Libya, citing Mr Ferris’s own past.

THE parents of an 11-year-old boy killed by his neighbour were among the mourners at the removal of a garda superintendent whose tragic death from cancer came in the wake of his doctor’s negligence.

A GARDA superintendent whose doctor failed to pass on test results and who subsequently developed terminal cancer has died.

A senior Garda from Cork whose cancer was misdiagnosed has passed away.

A 39-year-old man is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in managing brothels in cities around the country.

THE Irish Medical Council has doubled the period of suspension imposed on a GP who failed to pass on crucial test results to his now terminally-ill patient and then tried to cover it up.

A DOCTOR who admitted trying to cover up his failure to note a recommendation of further surgery for a now terminally ill patient behaved disgracefully, the Irish Medical Council’s fitness to practise committee said yesterday.

MISTAKES can be made in any profession but those who make them must be man enough to put their hands up, Superintendent Martin Dorney told the Medical Council inquiry in Cork just over a week ago.

A GARDA given just months to live after his doctor failed to pass on test results – and then tried to cover it up – has said his family is “facing down the barrel of a gun”.

WHEN Pauline Dorney asked her family doctor if her husband would be around to see his son graduate from college, he could not answer.

JOHN MINNOCK is one of the few that truly knows how Michael Murphy feels right now.

Dublin 1-10 Donegal 1-8

JIM GAVIN has backed several of his Dublin U21 players to be future stars after qualifying for a first final at the grade since 2003.

Dublin 1-12 Westmeath 0-9, Parnell Park

CHRIS COLEMAN has emerged as the new favourite for the manager’s post at Southampton.

IF YOU’RE offered cheap Elizabeth Arden perfume, Hewlett Packard computers, or Canterbury sports clothing by a stranger in a pub, the chances are they were stolen from a warehouse in Co Cork.

ONE of the country’s longest-serving trade union leaders has attacked the social partnership pay deal process and called for a major overhaul.

Ben Dorney has resigned as manager of the Kildare senior hurlers, citing personal reasons for his departure.

Adrian McAndrew has been drafted into the Kildare team for Sunday's Christy Ring Cup final against Westmeath (Croke Park, throw-in 12.15pm).

GARDAÍ are still trying to pin down the exact time strangled teenager Sheola Keaney was last seen alive because this information could prove vital to finding her killer.

The killer of Cobh woman Sheola Keaney concealed her remains under scrap metal, it was confirmed today.

THE JURY at a Cork inquest returned a verdict that a 37 year-old mother of three children, who was able to walk out of a psychiatric ward, took her own life.

THE poor job prospects of early school-leavers highlight the need for paid educational leave from work, teachers have claimed.

THE husband of a missing mother-of-three said he will formally express his concern to the health authorities at the ease at which his wife was able to walk out of a psychiatric ward.

AS almost 116,000 students begin the Junior and Leaving Certificate this week, teachers have called for core exams to be staggered to ease pressure on candidates.

ALMOST 2,000 lines of inquiry have been followed into the death of Robert Holohan, 11, a court heard yesterday. Gardaí have received more time to prepare a book of evidence against a man charged with his manslaughter because of the enormity of the investigation.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland is set to oppose any element of the next round of benchmarking that attempts to link pay rises to longer working hours.

THE Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) has warned that at least 1,200 new teachers need to be employed at second level within the next five years or classroom overcrowding will reach an emergency state.

A murder accused who admitted to beating a man with a hurley regretted not robbing money from the man as he lay dying, a witness alleged at the Central Criminal court today.

Neans McSweeney

THERE was uncertainty last night whether or not Education Minister Noel Dempsey will attend the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) annual congress in Galway next month.