Reigning Dr Harty Cup (Munster PPS U18½AHC) champions Our Lady’s Secondary School will clash with John The Baptist CS of Hospital in the quarter-finals of the current competition.

John the Baptist CS, Hospital (Limerick) 2-6

That Oscar Wilde won’t be in Thurles tomorrow makes no difference. We know implicitly what he’d say.

It would seem somehow that Michael Clifford (Irish Examiner, April 7) does not fully enjoy or endorse the paltry and pathetic Dáil pantomime (both intra- and extra-mural versions) currently running in Kildare Street. He is certainly not alone.

The other day I saw one of the first Christmas ads on television, and I thought, “Christmas is here already!”

Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane yesterday cut the ribbon on a groundbreaking interventional pain service facility at Marymount Hospital and Hospice in Cork, the first of its kind in Europe.

Princess Charlotte was christened in front of the Queen and close family and friends at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Norfolk.

If marriage is redefined in Ireland, I fear that you will suffer when the ballot paper you ticked with emotion turns out to have far more practical consequences than you ever dreamed.

Those of you who’ve been keeping a close eye on Waterford of late will know what to expect tomorrow. Those of who you haven’t merely need to study the photograph above.

An 80-year-old former principal has appealed his conviction for indecently assaulting 11 women while they were pupils of his in Moyasta National School, west Clare, over three decades.

Shocked parishioners have said prayers at a church in England where their vicar is under arrest for murdering a baby.

FINE people have made this country great, but few can match John Delaney, the chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland, who was in the news, again, last week, being unfairly pilloried, subjected to media intrusion, victimised.

The venerable Festival Opera has another impressive programme for 2014, says Jo Kerrigan.

There may never be a weekend like it again.

The reference to the failure of John the Baptist to make any headway in the recent election and the fact that he ultimately lost his head has more relevance to the present situation than has being ascribed to it by media commentary.

As Fine Gael, Labour, and Fianna Fáil, have discovered, the Irish electorate is not loyal, writes Gary Murphy.

A stark warning will be delivered to Labour leader Eamon Gilmore in the coming days from a group of backbench TDs calling for a major shake-up of the party’s cabinet positions and a re-examination of its communications machine.

JOHN Muir, the “father of the National Parks” who “saved the American soul from total surrender to materialism”, died a century ago this year. 2014 will be marked by Muir celebrations in the US and his native Scotland. April 21 has been designated John Muir day.

Brad Pitt is set to play the man who killed Jesus Christ.

Scientists have found new evidence they say supports the theory that a knuckle bone and other human remains found under a church floor in Bulgaria may be of John the Baptist.

HIS term as hurling’s missionary — also known as national coordinator — expires this weekend, but Paudie Butler remains true to the creed. “I’m going to commit the rest of my life to supporting coaches and clubs who want to develop hurling. Because I know that we’re winning.”

TO BEGIN with today, two questions. Just to make it easier, the answer to each is the same.

Sir Elton John’s son is named after his favourite church.

TRANSPORT Minister Noel Dempsey made a great speech to his party’s árd fheis last weekend. Like those hard-hitting Meath footballers of some years back his tackle is a bit behind the referee’s back, though.

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing Ben-Hur and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other figures in Hollywood epics of the 1950s and 60s, has died at 84, his family said today.

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing Ben-Hur and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other figures in Hollywood epics of the 1950s and 60s, has died at 84, his family said today.

Al Pacino will star as King Herod in a Los Angeles stage production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome.

Al Pacino will star as King Herod in a Los Angeles stage production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome.

Anthony Hopkins became so hooked on alcohol he suffered severe hallucinations.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found a cave in Israel where they believe John the Baptist anointed many of his disciples - a huge cistern with 28 steps leading to an underground pool of water.

Archaeologists have found a cave in Israel where they believe John the Baptist anointed many of his disciples – a huge cistern with 28 steps leading to an underground pool of water.

An Israeli archaeologist has discovered what he says is a unique Roman-era wooden anchor on the shores of the Dead Sea, preserved by the water’s high salt and mineral content.

AFTER decades of speaking out for the voiceless in society, the Man in Black has finally been silenced.

A Protestant priest who faced being defrocked for publicly stating he did not believe in the divinity of Christ tonight announced his resignation.

An Irish priest who said Christ was neither a saviour nor divine was today hauled before senior churchmen and accused of heresy.

John Paul II has become the first pope to enter a mosque.