Kerry captain Kieran Donaghy defended the performance of referee Eddie Kinsella in the wake of Sunday’s fiery league encounter with Dublin, insisting the Laois official was justified in flashing 12 cards.

O’Byrne Cup

To mark tomorrow’s 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, Des O’Driscoll looks back on the day in 1991 when the late singer’s band played a support slot at Sir Henry’s in Cork.

Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly will host a Strictly Come Dancing live from Wembley Arena on BBC One, 6.30pm today.

MICK FITZSIMONS is about to lurch from the ridiculous to the sublime.

WHEN you are the underdog and haven’t won a provincial title for 66 years and haven’t beaten your opponent in the previous 16 championship attempts you need everything to go right for you to get the win.

A British security worker jailed for life for murdering two colleagues in Iraq is threatening to take his own life, his family said today.

A British security contractor told an Iraqi court today that he was acting in self-defence when he shot two colleagues, claiming that they had threatened to kill him after a drunken brawl in Baghdad’s Green Zone.

A Dublin Circuit Court judge has ordered that over €100,000 seized from a Tallaght taxi driver as part of a garda investigation into drug dealing be handed over to the State.

AFTER a strong plea by a High Court judge to both sides “to think long and hard” about their dispute over the ownership of Gorse Hill, the Pat Kenny land row is to go to mediation, but the case could be back in court as early as Tuesday if such a move fails.