Gavin Twohig beat Éamon Bowen by almost a bowl in the first round of the Munster senior championship in driving rain at Templemartin on Monday.

James Cooney was the star of the Munster Junior A action last weekend, beating Michael Murphy by three bowls after a scintillating 10 shot salvo at Whitechurch on Sunday.

Michael Harrington beat Seán Murphy by two bowls at Shannonvale to advance to the Munster Intermediate quarter-final.

Cork will welcome back the Senior Inter-Provincial Championships after 10 years this weekend as Lower Aghada Tennis Club host the competition.

Brothers Edmond and Séamus Sexton advanced to the Munster senior championship semi-finals in a weekend that saw all four Munster quarter-finals decided.

John Shorten beat Wayne Callanan by almost a bowl in the Billy Molloy Cup at Whitechurch. 

James McCarthy will be 13 next month. The day he was born is a day his family will never forget — for all the wrong reasons. 

A 12-year-old boy who can’t walk, talk or sit up on his own, has brought a High Court action for damages over catastrophic injuries he suffered in the final stages of his mother’s pregnancy.

With an Ireland-Netherlands two-day test at Skibbereen, the final of the John Cronin Cup and two Mick Barry Cup ties this was one of the busiest weekends of the year.

PJ Cooney and Davey Fitzgerald had good wins in the Munster intermediate championship during a weekend packed with championship scores in all grades.

Gary Daly kept his championship ambitions alive with a good last shot win over Christy Mullins in Pool C of the Munster senior championship at Shannonvale.

David Murphy continued his march to the Munster senior championship quarter-final with a bowl-of-odds win over Nicholas Carey at Templemichael on Sunday.

Aidan Murphy beat Brian Wilmot in the last shot at Newcestown to stay toe-to-toe with Martin Coppinger in Pool B of the Munster senior championship.

Donal Riordan and William O’Driscoll had good wins in the Munster intermediate championship, beating brothers Anthony and Noel Gould respectively.

Gavin Twohig returned to competitive bowling with an impressive win over David Hubbard in the Ballinacurra tournament on Saturday.

Aidan Murphy had the first win of the 2012 Munster senior championship when he beat Martin Coppinger in the last shot at Baile Mhuirne in Pool A on Saturday.

WILLIAM O’Driscoll beat James Cooney by two bowls of odds in the Ballincurrig 27 final on Saturday.

LEONARD BOWEN won the Dan Herlihy Cup final at Waterfall where he had a comprehensive bowl of odds win over Mick Murphy (Innishannon).

DAVID O’MAHONY beat David Hubbard by a bowl of odds in the Champy Deasy Cup final at Grange on Sunday.

The Pisces fishing tragedy in which five people died must never happen again, the Marine Minister vowed today.

The leniency of a fine for a fisherman whose boat sank with the loss of five lives has shocked local people, a TD said today.

A fisherman whose boat sank with the loss of five lives was tonight found not guilty of manslaughter.

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A NEW generation is in the ascendancy in Ulster following Eddie Carr's win over Michael Toal in last Sunday's senior semi-final at the Cathedral Road.

FOUR men and a teenage boy went out last July with five other friends for a day's sea fishing.

A fishing trawler which sank off the Co Wexford coast drowning members of three generations of a family was not seaworthy, overloaded and unstable, a report published today revealed.