Thomas Mackle will be bidding for a special place in bowling history when he defends his Hurley’s of Midleton King of the Roads title at Ballincurrig next weekend.

Gary Daly and Arthur McDonagh face off in an all-Fermoy Mick Barry Cup final to fill the last spot in next month’s King of the Roads semi-final.

Fermoy bowlers Arthur McDonagh and Gary Daly scored a double in the Mick Barry Cup at Ballincurrig in the race for a semi-final place in next month’s King of the Roads.

Batman v Superman was “very satanistic”, while animated children’s film Trolls featured “genocidal cannibalism with [a] sub-context of substance addiction”.

Michael Harrington franked his All-Ireland intermediate credentials with an impressive win over Christy Mullins in the Cancer Research benefit at Shannonvale on Saturday.

Michael Bohane advanced at the expense of James Buckley in the Mick Barry Cup at Ballincurrig.

Susan Greene is set to vacate the chair of Ból-Chumann na hÉireann, having led the national governing body since 2001.

Colin O’Donovan scorched to within three metres of the line in 12 brilliant shots to beat David Cotter by a bowl of odds in the Dinny McCarthy Cup final at Derrinasafa.

Edmund Sexton had an exceptional weekend. On Saturday at Ballinagree he won the feature score of the Donagh Murphy-Kingston Fund and on Sunday he won the Dutch Moors European championship trials at Castletownkenneigh.

MARTIN COPPINGER and Brian Daly beat Gary Daly and Thomas Boyle by well over a bowl at Grenagh, thanks mostly to Coppinger’s brilliance.

Gregory McGonigle’s Monaghan came through a tense battle against Galway on Saturday evening to book their place in the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies SFC final at Croke Park on September 29.

Gavin Twohig brought his recent good form into 2013 with an impressive win over Arthur McDonagh in the Billy Molloy Cup at Whitechurch.

Vincent Kiely is the John Cronin Cup champion following his last shot win over John O’Donoghue at Cobh on Sunday.

TOTAL sales at a Shannon-based in-flight catering firm fell by €600,000 this year as a result of the impacts of the volcanic ash cloud in April and May.

IRELAND is one of just four European countries ever to ban a video game, but it is also one of the countries that does nothing to enforce the age limits on games because it is not an offence to sell a video game to a minor.

VIDEO games will carry cinema-style age classifications to boost child safety under a strategy announced in Britain yesterday.