Young Munster 14 UL/Bohemian 13: With Young Munster comfortably located in the middle of the premier division of the Ulster Bank All-Ireland League and UL Bohemian struggling in the lower half of Division One B, current form meant there should have been only one result in last night’s Munster Senior Cup quarter-final clash of the sides at Tom Clifford Park.

Afri has called on the Government to fulfil its legal and moral obligations to prevent further use of Shannon and Irish air space for torture-related flights.

Unbelievably, Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan claims as a victory the saving of €750 million in interest when he hands €9 billion of our money over to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Pádraig Harrington predicted earlier this year that within the decade, the likes of Bubba Watson and Rory McIlroy will be battling a new generation of stars who will hit the ball 380 yards — at least. 

On behalf of the justice and peace organisation, Afri, I am revulsed at comments by the head of the Shannon Airport Authority, Rose Hynes, to an Oireachtas committee, as reported in the Irish Examiner.

Working with James ‘Whitey’ Bulger only ever ended one way, reports RYLE DWYER

LEINSTER champions Dublin and Munster surprise packets Kerry advanced to the semi-finals of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies SFC with hard-fought quarter-final victories at Banagher on Saturday.

Leinster champions Dublin and Munster surprise packets Kerry advanced to the semi-finals of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship with hard-fought quarter-final victories at Banagher today.

FAVOURITES James Stephens just about did enough in Nowlan Park yesterday to get back to the Kilkenny SHC final.

CLARE ladies have been knocking on the door of the senior grade for four years now and they finally let themselves in yesterday after withstanding a second-half comeback from Fermanagh.

Clare 3-10 Fermanagh 1-1

CORK retained their Bord Gáis Energy Ladies National Football League Division 1 crown with a devastating performance against Mayo in Saturday’s Kiltoom decider.

Cork 1-20 Mayo 0-11

WE the undersigned demand an immediate end to Israel’s all-out war against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

ONE of the country’s largest public relations firms has reported a surge in pre-tax profits for last year.

DAVID OLIVER JOYCE, his cousin John Joe Joyce, Belfast middleweight, Eamonn O’Kane and 20-year-old Clonmel heavyweight Con Sheehan will all be battling for medals and semi-final places at the European Boxing Championships in Liverpool today.

John Joe Joyce cruised into the quarter finals of the 37th European Senior Championships following a comfortable 20-3 win over Scottish light welterweight John Tain at the Greenbank Academy in Liverpool this afternoon.

DAVID OLIVER JOYCE set up what promises to be an enthralling quarter-final with the Olympic champion, Vasyl Lomachenko (Ukraine), with a resounding 12-3 victory over Englishman Joe Murray at the European Senior Boxing Championships in Liverpool yesterday.

Reigning Irish featherweight champion David Oliver Joyce joined Ryan Lindberg and Ross Hickey in the quarter finals of the 37th European Senior Championships following a convincing 16-3 win over British 2008 Olympian Joe Murray at the Greenbank Academy in Liverpool this afternoon.

BILLY WALSH will be looking for more of the same from Ryan Lindberg and Willie McLoughlin at the European Championships in Liverpool today when Ireland will have four boxers fighting for places in the quarter-finals.

THE Irish challenge got off to an astonishing start at the European boxing championships in Liverpool yesterday when the two boxers in action won their respective contests and the other seven members of the team got byes into the last 16 in their divisions.

Is it naive to think that there were only problems in Donegal?

Irish head coach Billy Walsh believes that this weeks sparring and training camp with England and France at the National Stadium in Dublin can only augur well for the Olympic qualifiers in Pescara, Italy later this month.

AS the World Bank meets in Dublin this week we, as Irish global justice organisations, would like to highlight our deep concerns about the often devastating impact of the bank’s practices on the lives of poor people throughout the world.

All five Irish boxers have made this mornings weigh-in for this afternoons European Union Championships finals at the National Stadium in Dublin.

PARENTS and pupils of a school in Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s stomping ground brought their frustration at lack of progress on a new building to his office yesterday.

AT Mr Haughey’s beloved Abbeville in Kinsealy, north Co Dublin, it was a day of comings and goings.

IT’S déjà vu all over again, as our American friends like to say, as James Stephens of Kilkenny play UCD, Dublin champions, in a repeat of last year’s final.

PR firm Murray Consultants has appointed Pat Walsh as its new managing director.

AS the competitive hurling season finally kicks into gear for the 2005 season, it’s all systems go in the club semi-finals this weekend.

James Stephens 2-16, Young Ireland’s 3-12

CHILDREN who have been educated in a football club for up to eight years yesterday built cardboard classrooms in a field they hope will be chosen for a new school building.

IRISH universities are becoming increasingly involved in research sponsored by some of the world’s largest arms companies, a report to be published today reveals.

IRELAND exported more than €2 billion worth of restricted military and dual-use equipment in 2003, latest figures reveal.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was yesterday portrayed as the dormouse from Alice in Wonderland in criticism of the Government’s willingness to provide assistance for the US war on Iraq.

NEW anti-terrorism laws before the Dáil today seriously threaten genuine opponents of political tyranny, a leading lawyer warned yesterday.

MAINTAINING his remarkable run of success on the Killarney Historic Rally, Dessie Nutt, co-driven by Geraldine McBride in a Porsche 911, won his fifth title when he finished the ten-stage event a minute and twenty one seconds ahead of the similar Porsche of John Keatley/Maurice Beckett.

Young Irelands 0-17 James Stephens 0-16