Extra time was required today at the Fraher Field in Dungarvan before Dunnamaggin booked their place in the AIB All Ireland club junior hurling championship final.

Ciara Mageean and Kevin Dooney will lead the women's and men's sides.

Cloughduv put the county final disappointments 2009, 2010 and 2015 behind them today to be crowned Cork JAH champions after a close battle with Russell Rovers at Páirc Uí Rinn.

Donnchadh Doyle appears to have a plethora of talent at his disposal this season and the north Co Wexford-based handler sent out two winners at yesterday’s West Waterford Foxhounds point-to-point fixture at Lismore.

Three elderly people in Kerry are still living in fear after a scam artist, claiming to work for Irish Water, made cash demands on behalf of the utility.

It has only been two years, but already the annual candlelight walk in memory of Adrian Donohoe has the feel of a deeply embedded tradition.

ICSA says farmers will remain sceptical, amid ‘downward manipulation of prices by meat industry’

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The Irish Farmers’ Association has claimed a growing divergence between the incomes of beef farmers and the prices consumers are paying is evidence "of the collusion between processors and retailers to cream off excessive margins for themselves".

Aodhán Ó Riordáin tweeted a pictured of his office door this morning, after it was sprayed with curry and vandalised with the words "scum" and "traitors".

ONE does not associate traditional music with Waterford in the way one does with the heartlands of Miltown Malbay or Cúil Aodha, but the thriving trad scene in the city reflects the healthy state of the genre in Ireland.

I would like to congratulate the Cork team on a very clean, hard-fought, victory over Limerick at Pairc Uí Caoimh.

The epic battle between Derek O’Connor and Jamie Codd for the 2013/14 point-to-point riders’ championship moved to yesterday’s Dawstown fixture, run under the auspices of the Muskerry Foxhounds at Birch Hill outside Grenagh.

Former detective Ben O’Sullivan, who survived the hail of IRA gunfire which claimed the life of his colleague, Detective Garda Jerry McCabe, yesterday revisited that black day, Jun 7, 1996.

The murder of a detective during a credit union hold-up has today been branded an attack on the State by Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

A burned out car found in Co Armagh is believed to have been used by the gang responsible for the shooting dead of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in Co Louth.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has described the fatal shooting of a Garda detective in Co Louth as "cold-blooded violence", while Justice Minister Alan Shatter called it a "callous and barbaric event" .

The husband of mother-of-three Jacqueline McDonagh has appeared in court charged with her murder.

The Sean Aherne-trained Kaitlin’s Fancy lit up Saturday’s 10-race Tipperary Foxhoundspoint-to-point meeting at Lisronagh by recording a battling success in the featured four-mile open lightweight.

Anti-capitalist protesters began discussing the possibility of leaving their camp outside St Paul’s tonight as religious leaders voiced their support for the group.

A VIRTUAL ‘Groundhog Day’ type scenario repeated itself at yesterday’s Dungarvan Harriers point-to-point meeting at Affane as Jimmy Mangan’s Rudi Trucker repeated his success of 12 months ago in the open lightweight.

TODAY the National Transport Authority (NTA) is scheduled to decide on the application by Iarnród Éireann to withdraw passenger services on the Rosslare-Waterford rail line.

A new report into the future of the Rosslare-Waterford rail line rubbishes Iarnród Éireann's case for shutting down the service, campaigners said today.

THE sun beat down and amid stifling humidity yesterday men, women and children filled buckets, bottles and saucepans with water from a communal tap.

DERVAL O’ROURKE has withdrawn from Saturday’s Cork City Sports because of a groin injury picked up at the European Team Championships in Slovakia two weeks ago.

A leading consulting engineering company and senior project engineer have been awarded their legal costs after being acquitted of breaches of the Health and Safety Act arising out of a fatal accident at a construction site.

A leading consulting engineering company and senior project engineer have been acquitted of breaches of the Health and Safety Act arising out of a fatal accident at a construction site seven years ago.

PAUL HESSION will get his new outdoor season under way tonight when he lines up for the 100m at the Primo Nebiolo Memorial Meeting which will be staged in Turin.

MUCH has been made in the media of the ESB’s decision to grant a 3% wage increase to its staff. ESB management was attacked by the Government and IBEC for sticking to its agreement with workers.

A CALL has been made to renew the air link between Ireland’s south-east region and Gatwick airport in London.

I WONDER how many Michael O’Leary’s are there? The latest version wants Aer Lingus to fly a route he himself won’t fly, ie, Shannon-Heathrow.

THE international kings and queens of chess arrived in Cork yesterday ahead of the largest chess competition ever held in Ireland.

LAST Wednesday Finance Minister Brian Cowen said there would be no cuts in government spending in 2005.

MEL GIBSON’S film The Passion of the Christ is the best cinematic re-enactment of the crucifixion ever. It adheres virtually to every word in the gospel.

THE Budget announcement of decentralisation for 2007 has deliberately distracted attention from Charlie McCreevy’s lost opportunity to invest in our social infrastructure.

IT is time to reflect on the accusations (mostly truthful, I’d say) that have been made against the Catholic Church in Ireland.