Pavee Point has called for college scholarships and for earlier interventions in second level to keep Traveller children in school.

Grace Brothers is back and open for business as Are You Being Served? returns after a 30-year hiatus.

Galway hurling manager Micheál Donoghue is confident of having three members of the starting team from last year’s All-Ireland final back from injury for the county’s Allianz League relegation play-off with Cork.

Tiger Woods believes either Darren Clarke or Miguel Angel Jimenez would make an ideal European Ryder Cup captain in 2016.

United States Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson conceded his team were outplayed on the opening day at Gleneagles but defended his decisions on pairings.

Gardaí were yesterday liaising with their counterparts in Spain to try to establish a motive and who was responsible for the shooting of notorious Dublin gangland figure Gerard Kavanagh in a bar in Marbella.

Most people emigrating from Ireland are employed workers or fresh graduates, creating concerns of a skills shortage as the economy begins to recover.

American Brandt Snedeker believes a switch to renowned coach Butch Harmon has got his game back on track as he prepares to defend his RBC Canadian Open title.

Anyone who has been to Upper Glanmire or the UL Sports Arena to watch the two most dominant forces in women’s basketball tussle each other won’t have been as wide-eyed as the casual observer, held in thrall by UL Huskies and Glanmire at the National Basketball Arena last night.

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As one of the world’s leading golf coaches Butch Harmon has now helped guide four of his students towards a Claret Jug, but for the veteran American, of all the feats he has seen performed at the Majors, Phil Mickelson’s final-round dash to the most famous prize in golf beat the lot.

A former technician at the state laboratory put in a claim for €20m compensation after the lab relocated 20km away.

A lawyer wounded in a shooting at an Arizona office building has died.

A man who shot dead a call-centre chief and critically wounded a lawyer at an Arizona office building where they were meeting to discuss a contract dispute has been found dead.

TIGER WOODS has hired Joe LaCava to be his third full-time caddie.

IF a change is as good as a rest, then Pádraig Harrington can expect to mount a challenge for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club exactly two years after he finished second to Tiger Woods in a thrilling finish.

A GENERAL labourer charged with murdering a pensioner in a psychiatric hospital told detectives he killed him, a court heard.

A general labourer charged with murdering a pensioner in a psychiatric hospital told detectives he killed him.

Golf pundits in the US are speculating that Tiger Woods may need to take another long break from the game, after a knee injury forced him to limp out of the Players Championship at Sawgrass after nine holes.

A WOMAN died yesterday morning when her car skidded on black ice and hit a tree in Co Limerick.

Marine accident investigators will begin an inquiry today into a boat fire which claimed the lives of three anglers.

MASTERS champion Phil Mickelson last night revealed he has started treatment for a condition known as psoriatic arthritis.

Struggling Tiger Woods will seek to bounce back from his worst tournament finish as a professional at the US PGA Championship this week and resurrect his Ryder Cup chances.

A COMMUNITY has been shattered and devastated at the death of a Limerick school teacher in a freak accident, mourners heard yesterday.

Phil Mickelson is taking advice on what course of action to follow in the wake of accusations of cheating.

AS he sat in self-imposed exile over the weekend, Tiger Woods would have cast a jaundiced eye over the advice flowing in his direction.

JACK NICKLAUS believes world number one Tiger Woods will find it harder to break his record of 18 majors if he does not compete this year.

PHIL MICKELSON is unsure how he will react to the wave of support he will experience at this week’s US Open as he aims to sign off from golf with a fourth major victory.

Phil Mickelson is unsure how he will react to the wave of support he will experience at this week’s US Open as he aims to sign off from golf with a fourth major victory.

HIS stomach shrunk by surgery and his gambling, divorces and drinking having reportedly left him close to bankruptcy, John Daly says he is looking forward to “hitting the European Tour” next week.

The priest at the funeral of murdered Limerick man Roy Collins has made a direct appeal to people involved in violence in the city to stop.

JEAN VAN DE VELDE has waited a long time for this week — the week when drug-testing become part and parcel of life on the European Tour.

Jean Van de Velde has waited a long time for this week – the week when drug-testing become part and parcel of life on the European Tour.

Former Ryder Cup player Ignacio Garrido, needing to find form this season to keep his European Tour career afloat, swept clear of the field when the Spanish Open resumed in Seville today.

Darren Clarke moved through the field when the Spanish Open resumed in Seville this morning – but he still found himself further off the lead.

Former Open champion John Daly insisted today that his drinking is not out of control and vowed: “I’ll be back.”

ONE has to wonder exactly what point Declan Harmon (Letters, March 13) is trying to make.

FRED COUPLES, a friend of John Daly’s, yesterday said he hopes Daly listens to the criticism coming his way stemming from recent incidents, including disqualification from last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational after missing his pro-am tee time.

Tiger Woods believes the Players Championship at Sawgrass will be wide open when the prestigious event gets underway on Thursday.

WHILE back pain now costs the economy hundreds of millions of euro in disability payments each year, there is no plan to deal with it, a medical conference head said yesterday.