Limerick Golf Club may have their own battles ahead in the AIG Senior Cup today at Carton House but one of their sons left Kildare yesterday with an All Ireland winners’ medal following Ballybunion’s AIG Junior Cup victory.

Ballybunion moved a step closer to regaining the AIG Junior Cup for the first time since 2013 but it needed a 20th hole victory in the defining singles match at Carton House to edge their semi-final against Loughrea.

Ireland qualified for next year’s ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup in Malaysia when it beat arch-rivals Scotland by six wickets to win the four-team round-robin European U-19 Qualifier in Belfast on Thursday.

The rising cost of the traditional Irish wedding will mean that 20% of Irish weddings in 2007 will be held abroad, a specialist travel agent claimed today.