Clonmel hotelier John Nallen has experienced a terrific run of success with his charges in point-to-points this season and the owner/trainer struck once more with newcomer Minella Friend in the four-year-old geldings’ maiden at yesterday’s Killeady Harriers meeting at Dromahane.

Cheltenham hero Bryan Cooper stole the show again in Wexford yesterday, completing a fine double on locally-trained Gates Of Rome and Blazing Beacon.

Dr Crokes’ lead midfielder knows that there’s more than tomorrow’s Kerry SFC final opponents, Dingle, keeping an eye on him as he heads into what he calls his “breakthrough season” in 2013.He spoke to Tony Leen

A Cork-based charity which provides a range of services to 2,000 clients with intellectual disabilities went almost €730,000 into the red last year.

Food safety experts played down the risk of mad cow disease entering America's food supply, a day after a government agency detected the first new case of the disease in the US since 2006.

THE Grand National may have been the feature at a packed Cork yesterday, but as far as the future is concerned there was one horse who literally took your breath away and that was Paul Nolan’s Alpha Ridge in the Dial-A-Bet 1800 721 821 EBF Novice Hurdle.

LIMERICK politicians last night voted through one of the most controversial land zonings outside of Dublin in the face of dire warnings of the legal risk they were taking for themselves and Limerick County Council.

MUNSTER’S red army yesterday got a call to man the home barricades for the big Heineken Cup final against Toulouse on May 24.

PLANNERS are reportedly strenuously opposed to moves to rezone large tracts of farmland for housing near the picture-postcard village of Adare, Co Limerick.

THERE were doubles for riders Benny Walsh and Ross O’Sullivan at the rescheduled Kildare Hunt point-to-point fixture at Punchestown racecourse yesterday.

Former St Mary's manager Tommy Breheny has assumed caretaker control of the Sligo senior footballers.

More than 10,000 vehicles will be removed from the streets of Limerick each day after the opening of part of a new ring road around the city today.

Leitrim’s Sean Gallagher and his Kerry co-driver Paul Nagle were decisive winners of the BIO TECH Kerry Rally.

RUDY GIULIANI was in Cork the other night, talking about leadership.

The Cork family of two of the victims of the attacks on New York said talk of retaliation and the killing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan is wrong.

Arts bosses in riot-hit Oldham were today gearing up for the second day of a street performance festival called Mayhem.