Ireland 0 Holland 0: It was a game they could have lost heavily; at the finish, a match they might even have won.

Kilkenny 4-12 Galway 3-07

Camogie: Galway’s campaign to defend their Liberty Insurance senior camogie title met with an early setback after old rivals Wexford inflicted a 2-12 to 1-11 defeat at Kenny Park on Saturday.

Ailish O’Reilly stepped on to the Croke Park turf on Sunday free from the baggage weighing heavily on the shoulders of her Galway team-mates.

Galway 1-12 Wexford 0-06

Kilkenny will play in the Liberty Insurance senior camogie semi-final on August 17 after recording a stunning 2-15 to 2-9 victory over Wexford in their final Group 1 game at Nowlan Park.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and Education Minister Ruairi Quinn have said Mr Gilmore’s wife was treated the same as other senior education figures when given a job at the Department of Education.

The head of City of Cork Vocational Education Committee says he looks forward to continuing in the role after changes to a planned reshuffle of VEC chiefs nationally.

The wife of Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore is to become a policy specialist for his Labour Party colleague Ruairí Quinn as part of redeployment arrangements for vocational education committee (VEC) chiefs.

Wexford maintained their good start to the All-Ireland senior championship and gained some measure of revenge for their league final defeat by overcoming Cork 0-14 to 0-9 in their second round tie at Bellefield.

Killimor’s grip on the All-Ireland senior club camogie championship is no more, as Drom/Inch dominated the Galwegians at MacDonagh Park in Nenagh to book a place in this year’s final against Oulart-the-Ballagh.

Wexford 2-7 Galway 1-8

SUNDAY’S camogie final will prove the sport is getting faster and more physical with every passing year, according to Galway camogie captain, Brenda Hanney.

Wexford and Galway will meet next month in a repeat of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final, following their semi-final wins at Nowlan Park this afternoon.

WHEN Brenda Hanney led Killimor to All-Ireland senior club camogie final success last month, it was an achievement celebrated not just in the east Galway parish but throughout the county.

LABOUR party leader Eamon Gilmore has said he is not embarrassed by recent revelations that his wife sold a site to the state for €525,000.

A young Dublin man who viciously assaulted an ex-girlfriend in his car after a night drinking has been remanded in custody with consent to bail to allow him to attend for drug treatment.

Shamrock Rovers 2 Waterford United 0

A 38-year-old father-of-two accused of murder has said his life was in danger during a fight with the deceased, the Central Criminal Court has heard.