Kilkenny captain Eoin Larkin believes there are outside forces intent on taking the physicality out of hurling.

Wexford captain David Murphy has emerged as an injury concern for his side's All-Ireland SFC fourth round qualifier against Limerick next Saturday.

LIMERICK 3-9 KERRY 1-26

Limerick manager Maurice Horan has handed debuts to three players for Saturday's Munster SFC semi-final against Kerry at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 6.45pm).

LIMERICK senior footballers have received a massive boost with the news two of their dual stars will be available to new manager Maurice Horan.

LIMERICK senior footballers have received a massive boost with the news two of their dual stars will be available to new manager Maurice Horan.

BACK in 2003, I took the Limerick team I then managed to Killarney for a Munster final replay, the last time the two teams met in Munster championship football at the venue.

All-Ireland champions Kerry, along with Limerick and Tipperary, progressed through to tomorrow's quarter-finals of the McGrath Cup following preliminary round victories this afternoon.

JOHN DOYLE’S goal 10 minutes from time finally broke Limerick’s stubborn resistance in a gripping round two All-Ireland qualifier at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday night.

THE man whose crime-fighting work while head of the state’s forensic science lab nearly cost him his life will be honoured tonight for bravery.

The following is the Leinster 'A' team to play Connacht in Barnhall on Friday (KO: 2pm):

THOUSANDS of mourners last night accompanied a man who died in a sea rescue tragedy, last weekend, on his final journey.

THE heartbroken fiancée of one of two brave men who drowned saving two swimmers, is praying for the recovery of the second victim.

Whitbread Prize-winning poet Bernard O’Donoghue from Cork pauses from his work at Wadham College, Oxford to tell Michael Moynihan his memories of Cork-Kerry Munster finals.

Galway, Laois, Down and Wexford all enjoyed wins in Division 1B of the Allianz NFL today.

Limerick 2-10 Cork Institute of Technology 1-3

Limerick 2-09 Cork IT 1-03

Defending champions Limerick host college side Cork IT in the McGrath Cup final at the Gaelic Grounds today.

Cork 0-07 Limerick 2-03

NO evidence has been uncovered by the authorities in the North linking members of the RUC, UDR, British army or intelligence services to the Dublin/Monaghan bombings, Secretary of State Paul Murphy has claimed.

NCB Stockbrokers, in which Quinn Financial Services this week acquired a 20% minority stake, is losing two senior traders according to The Irish Independent.

CIVIL liberties groups and legal experts have expressed concern at provisions in a bill extending the powers of gardaí.

THE place of science in everyday life — from the mobile phone to the microwave — will be among the subjects to be looked at closely at the 41st annual conference of the Irish Science Teachers’ Association (ISTA), in Tralee, Co Kerry, at the weekend.

IRELAND has some of the most stringent rules in the world in relation to taking, examining and storing forensic samples from suspects.

THE hunt for the man who sexually assaulted a four-year-old boy is hampered by laws preventing gardaí from taking DNA samples from suspects against their wishes, the country’s top forensic officer warned.

ANTI-DRUG campaigners and medical experts here and abroad yesterday rejected claims that ecstasy was not as dangerous as had been believed.

Cocaine is fast becoming the drug of choice in Ireland. Cormac O'Keeffe charts the rise of a drug that was once the preserve of the rich and famous

Littlewoods chief executive Barry Gibson has left the retailer after losing the backing of his board, it emerged today.