Yvonne Keating says she has never been happier.

Holder Pat Murray (Limerick), Stuart Grehan (Tullamore) and Robbie Cannon (Balbriggan), the three players with most reason to feel aggrieved at the announcement of the Irish Home Internationals team before the South of Ireland began, all bit the dust on an eventful day at Lahinch yesterday.

Ronan Keating is said to be devastated that ex-wife Yvonne has found a new boyfriend.

Colm Meaney’s character is reduced to living in his car in the new Irish feature film Parked, Pádraic Killeen reports.

AT a pre-match lunch at Kilballyowen Park yesterday, visiting IRFU President Caleb Powell described Bruff as a remarkable club that embodied all of the positive things in Irish domestic rugby.

BUILD it, and they’ll come, organise it and they’ll run — and run it they did, more than 1,400 hardy souls and hardened soles turning up for a trinity of inaugural races, in the fortnight run-up to Christmas.

COUNTY player Aonghus Callanan hit 0-5 from play as city side Liam Mellows, who won the last of their seven Galway SHC titles back in 1970, advanced to the quarter-finals at Athenry yesterday, seeing off Sarsfields 0-13 to 0-11.

THE Irish Twittersphere is “inhabited” by up to 100,000 users, but many are just curious observers and often leave their own online message spaces lying idle.

STOCKBROKER Merrion Capital has announced three of its top executives are to leave the company in a significant shake-up at the group, previously owned by collapsed Icelandic bank, Landsbanki.

THE first Irish person to swim the English Channel and back in one go received a hero’s welcome home last night.

Jean-Marc Vallee’s history lesson concentrates on the year prior to Victoria’s coronation when the young queen (Emily Blunt) is at the mercy of her mother, the Duchess of Kent (Miranda Richardson) and scheming advisor Sir John Conroy (Mark Strong).

THE Government should create a bad bank for property loans and introduce a zero capital gains tax rate for business investments.

LIKELY ways to promote job growth and finance ideas will be some of the issues discussed at conferences in Cork and Limerick tomorrow.

AS a Corkman living in Belgium, I was delighted that the city’s lord mayor and groups from Cork attended the Island of Ireland Peace Park in Messines, Belgium, on Tuesday last — Remembrance Day.

THERE are few fixtures more compelling for sheer atmosphere than the Leinster Schools Senior Cup final sponsored by Powerade, which this year moves to a new home at the RDS.

Two friends who had been involved in a heavy drinking session attacked a man after he confronted them because one of them smashed his girlfriend's car window with a golf club.

John Conroy has retired from the board of directors of ISEQ-listed Iona Technologies.

COUNTY councillors have reacted angrily to a letter from the Department of Transport telling them only limited finance will be available to do up harbours in Cork before they are taken over by the local authority.

EIRCOM directors stand to make €7.8 million from the sale to Babcock & Brown.

EIRCOM’S current and former employees are likely to get windfall payments later this year from the sale of their stake in the company.

THE founders of Merrion Capital are set to walk away with over €38 million from the sale of the business to Icelandic group Landsbanki for a total of €55.3m.

EIRCOM chief executive Phil Nolan was paid €1.2 million last year, it emerged yesterday.

EIRCOM chief executive Philip Nolan was paid €5.6 million in the past year, the company’s annual report reveals.

JOE DEANE will miss Cork’s NHL opener after he hobbled out of this highly competitive challenge with Galway at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.

THE first gas from the Seven Heads field off the Cork coast will begin flowing in the next few days.

Statoil Exploration Ireland Limited (SEIR) are to begin a €17m drilling exploration in late July on the Cong prospect - 32 nautical miles north west of Mayo.

FORMER Kilkenny All-Ireland winning captain Denis Byrne has been handed the number 14 jersey on the Tipperary team for Saturday’s qualifier against Laois in Portlaoise.

PAUL FLYNN makes his first competitive appearance for Waterford since the All-Ireland semi final seven months ago in their crucial NHL tie against Galway at Pearse Stadium on Sunday.