Rain disrupted the Munster Junior League program yesterday with eight of the scheduled games being postponed.

JDIFF is over, after many films and some fun jury time for yours truly. And as the guests wend their way back to their starry lives and the film drives and reels head homewards, its time to take a look at who won what.

Our efforts to understand the 1916 Rising and its leaders should focus on their expectations of what would happen and not just what transpired, according to one of the country’s leading historians.

Clonmel were crowned Munster Junior League champions for the first time as Junior Clubs again dominated in the Munster Junior Cup.

Junior Rugby Focus

Junior Rugby Focus: Newcastle West are the new leaders in Division 1 of the Munster Junior League after their bonus point 30-10 home win over Old Christians.

Mayo native Maurice Horan has ended his tenure as manager of the Limerick senior footballers, just a few short days after they were knocked out of the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers by Longford.

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Outside of Division 1, Limerick are the only unbeaten team in the Allianz Football League and manager Maurice Horan is putting a lot of it down to sweet relief from injury.

Maurice Horan has been reappointed as manager of the Limerick senior footballers, receiving a second two-year term with the Shannonsiders.

The 2007 Linguist Survey of the Gaeltacht found that Irish had 15-20 years remaining as a community language without a change in the current Statepolicy, best described by Prof Joe Lee as ‘letting the language die by stealth’.

In no particular order or weight ... Paul Brady, Henry Shefflin, Myrtle Allen, Saoirse Ronan, the Gulf Stream’s micro climate, Seamus Heaney, Fiona Shaw, Martin Hayes, Graham Norton, the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Rory McIlroy, Olivia O’Leary, Connemara, the Delphi and Blackwater valleys, Julie Feeney, John Hume, Lyric FM, Michael Noonan’s unflinching, selfless resolve at a moment of great personal tragedy.

HIS new position will see him clocking over 1,000 kilometres a week from his Kildare base but Brian Lacey had no hesitation about accepting the offer to coach the Limerick footballers.

ST SENAN’S caused the biggest shock in the opening round of games in the Munster Junior League as Killarney and Charleville lifted silverware.

Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals, edited by Niall Ferguson. Penguin Books, £12.99.

Limerick senior football manager Maurice Horan has revealed that a meeting in the aftermath of their exit from the Munster Championship got their campaign back on track.

THERE’S history aplenty at Sheares Villa – but what of its future?

BOOKS come out the door to meet you at No2 Carrigfern — literally. Even the side entrance porch here is shelved for book storage, and every room is similarly laden, with volumes tightly racked in serried ranks, shoulder to shoulder, spine to spine.

BILL Cullen’s recent tirade against young and well-trained unemployed people on RTÉ’s The Frontline last Monday smacked more of sour grapes than of any helpful input into the debate on our current economic crisis.

IT was a wonderful weekend for the Kerry clubs in the opening round of the Martin O’Sullivan Cup.

THE Green party’s debate last week about whether or not to support the Lisbon Treaty demonstrated the tough task ahead for those wishing to see the referendum passed.

McCreevy explained he was objecting to Haughey’s leadership because there had been a lowering of political standards, mishandling of the economy, as well as the party’s failure to secure a majority in two successive general elections.

SIX leading figures in education, sport, the arts and business were conferred with honorary degrees at University College Cork (UCC) yesterday.

MILITARY parades never really got onto the radar for kids like me in the 1970s, when parades were pretty thin on the ground.

TOMORROW’S county senior football final is a reflection of the recent rise in Limerick’s football profile.

THE Football Association of Ireland and their Scottish counterparts have been commending themselves on their unsuccessful bid for the European Championships in 2008.

THE next national pay deal will collapse unless the Government distributes wealth more evenly, a top political historian has warned.