Kildare 2-7 Dublin 2-20

Most golfers spend the best part of their sporting life trying to get a hole-in-one — and then Gerry Guckian goes and gets two in one round.

AFTER a fortnight of energy sapping action, Ballyboden St Enda’s put their fatigue to one side to claim a remarkable Dublin SFC title at Parnell Park.

ST FLANNAN’S advanced to the Harty Cup knock out phase following a comfortable victory over Midleton at Cashel yesterday.

PATIENTS with urgent prescriptions may find it difficult to get service on Wednesday when pharmacists attend an all-day mass meeting in Dublin.

MEDICAL card patients will get their prescriptions filled even if pharmacies withdraw from the payments scheme when new cost-cutting measures are introduced tomorrow, Health Minister Mary Harney insisted yesterday.

THE public is being forced to pay unnecessarily high sums for important medi-cines that should be made available over the counter, the Irish Pharmaceutical Union (IPU) has claimed.

Elderly people on medication risk accidental overdose because they may not know their correct dosage, it was warned today.

PARENTS of a seven-year-old school boy last night held a vigil at his bedside in Beaumont Hospital where he was being treated for serious head injuries after falling from the emergency exit door of a schoolbus.

The state’s bill for medicines is to be cut by €300m thanks to an agreement between the Health Services Executive and pharmacists, it was revealed today.

Roscommon 1-9 Leitrim 0-5