EUROPEAN silver medalist Derval O’Rourke last night launched a blistering attack on the treatment of elite athletics in this country.

This week, the Economic and Social Research Institute said recession will occur in Ireland for the first time in 25 years. This means the economy will shrink for at least six months in a row. Conor Ryan looks at the likely battlegrounds in the fight to regain control of the economy.

IF THIS were both Clare and Limerick’s first championship outing of the season, I’d be going for Limerick here, with very little hesitation.

Clare 1-12 Offaly 1-11

Diarmuid O’Flynn finds Clare freshman manager Anthony Daly has his own way of doing things

Sixmilebridge 2-12 Newmarket 0-11

HELL-BENT on hurling heaven. It's not 1995, when they were determined to atone for over 80 years of frustration; it's not 1997, when they wanted to prove that the first one wasn't a fluke.

IT COULD reasonably be said that as Seanie McMahon goes, so goes Clare.