Gary Daly and Séamus Sexton secured places in the Munster senior championship quarter-final draw at the weekend and Éamon Bowen Jnr revived his hopes with a brilliant show against James Buckley, writes Séamus Ó Tuama.

USA: The whiff of a Whopper made hundreds of customers hungry for a Burger King special — “Flame Grilled” cologne.

Vincent Kiely’s win in the Tim White Cup final at Rosscarbery was the highlight of a weekend in which North Cork bowlers took four big victories. 

When Clara Le Blanc, 3, could not sing a nursery rhyme to her baby sister, her mother, Karen, had no doubt she had suffered a stroke.

The development of a cargo hub at Shannon Airport will be key to not only supporting companies across the west of Ireland but in accessing major emerging markets such as China, a global aviation conference in Limerick heard yesterday.

Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, Filth (18s) opens with the murder of a Japanese student in Edinburgh in the run-up to Christmas.

Peggy Mangan and her dog Casper had one last outing together along the short road and quiet avenue between the church where they were mourned and the cemetery where they were laid to rest.

Two 12 year-olds yesterday were confirmed by the Pope at a ceremony in St Peter’s Square in Rome.

A boy and a girl from Co Cork will have the honour of being the first Irish people to be confirmed by Pope Francis in a ceremony to be held in St Peter’s Square, Rome, next Sunday.

A 12-year-old boy tried in vain to resuscitate his gravely-ill father after he fell 10m from a barn roof.

US army veterans are set to honour the memory of an Irish-born soldier who died fighting with the Americans on the Western Front in France 94 years ago.

As soon as you are diagnosed with dementia, you need to take control of your finances and get legal advice, says John Hearne

WORD of a hot new apprentice talent spreads fast – but Flat trainers might not have long to make the most of Eddie Linehan.

It’s the tenth final Tipperary have contested and when you haven’t won any, there’s a sort of reluctance to think you’ll break the run.

BERNADETTE Coffey went to the church in Bantry yesterday morning and lit a candle for Paddy.

For Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians, Slobodan Milosevic came to personify the brutality and destruction that befell them in the 1990’s, during his campaign to rid the province of separatists.

A bear mauled two people to death and critically injured at least five others during an attack this morning in the Transylvanian city of Brasov in central Romania.

EXTRA gardaí will be drafted into a Co Cork town today in case trouble flares at a double Traveller wedding reception, which will be held in a local hotel.

Andrew Bree failed in his last ditch bid to make the Olympics as he finished runner-up to Briton Ian Edmond at the Scottish National and Open swimming Championships in Glasgow's Tollcross Pool yesterday.

Kenneth Branagh, who stole the second Harry Potter film as the vain Gilderoy Lockhart, is a busy man these days.

A FORMER US soldier went on trial under tight security in the exclusive Mediterranean principality of Monaco yesterday, accused of a 1999 arson attack that killed billionaire banker Edmond Safra.

Adrian Maguire defied a stomach upset to mark the second anniversary of his partnership with Ferdy Murphy by landing the Singer & Friedlander National Trial at Uttoxeter on Streamstown.

Warren Marston is out to win another big prize over fences when he rides Moral Support in the Singer & Friedlander National Trial at Uttoxeter tomorrow.

Darren Clarke has started his final round with a par on the first hole.

Colin Montgomerie has had two birdies in his first three holes today to move to six under par for the tournament.

Leaderboard update:

Colin Montgomerie, a twice-winner of the Championship turned in a spectacular performance to take the overnight lead with an eight-under-par 63.

One of the last remaining survivors of the Titanic has died in France, aged 92.