In the end, it was all too comfortable for Kerry. But it mattered little, the result they needed from Pearse Stadium didn't materialise.

Latrobe, the outsider, nosed himself in front with two furlongs remaining in Saturday’s Irish Derby classic at The Curragh. He beat the unrelenting Rostropovich by half a length in the premier Flat race.

Kildare 1-16 Longford 1-13

Kildare claimed their first win in 12 months, with a richly deserved eight-point qualifier win over Derry.

Kerry 0-19 - Kildare 0-14: A first win in four games. A first victory on home soil since January 28 and a first clean-sheet since July of 2017. Significant daylight put between themselves and the relegation zone. All in all, not a bad evening’s work for Kerry.

Kerry 0-19 Kildare 0-14: A sixth consecutive league defeat means Kildare will spend next spring in Division 2.

Efficient Irish dairy farmers will be ideally placed to capitalise on the global sales opportunities that will emerge post-expansion, according to leading industry experts.

THE shortlist for the fourth annual Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Awards has been announced in Dublin by a celebrity jury that includes Oscar winner Brenda Fricker, Oscar nominated director Kirsten Sheridan and Senator David Norris.

THE Ulster Bank All-Ireland League got back on track over the weekend with some outstanding games and excellent performances.

A CHEF who made a hoax phone call claiming his estranged wife was about to board a transatlantic flight with a bomb has been jailed for 12 months.

ANTHONY DALY admits he has dispensed with Dublin’s extra defender tactic because he has more confidence in his team.

Back in the 1980s, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) revolutionised the world with his technology corporation ENCOM.

GOALKEEPER Sean Whitty’s sudden-death heroics earned De La Salle, Waterford their first FAI Schools Tony O’Neill Senior Cup title at Tolka Park yesterday.

DE LA SALLE goalkeeper Sean Whitty was the shoot-out hero in Arklow yesterday as he saved a sudden death spot-kick before scoring one of his own to secure his school a place in the FAI’s Tony O’Neill Senior Cup final on March 22.

DE LA SALLE, WATERFORD defeated Cashel Community School 3-1 in yesterday’s FAI Schools Senior Boys Munster final at Basha, Tipperary.

IT’S NOT exactly yet another remake of A Star is Born, but Burlesque (US/12A/119 mins) is the latest Hollywood movie to tell the time-honoured tale of a star-struck hopeful who arrives in LA a nobody and triumphs against the odds to see her name up in lights.

Jeff Bridges felt “bizarre” while shooting ‘Tron: Legacy’ because so much of the set was computer generated.

IT’S DIFFICULT to know how to review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (US/12A/146 mins).

FOLLOWING fast on the recent Vodafone awards, Bernard Brogan (Dublin) and Lar Corbett (Tipperary) were last night again named as player-of-the-year in football and hurling for 2010, respectively, but this time by their peers, the members of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA).

Gaelic Players' Association CEO Dessie Farrell gave hia assessment of a year in which the players' body gained official recognition from the GAA, when he spoke at tonight's Opel GPA awards at the Citywest Hotel.

OUR LADY’S, Templemore assured themselves of a place in the knock out stages of the Dr Harty Cup with a 2-19 to 2-13 victory over St. Caimin’s at Claughaun yesterday.

Dublin 1-11 Cork 0-17

Jeff Bridges is pleased to be going back to ‘Tron’.

IT is hugely disappointing to hear people belittle Ireland’s potential to win the Triple Crown for the fifth time in seven years at Croke Park on Saturday.

Dublin 1-21 Tipperary 1-12

All-Star midfielder Alan McCrabbe has been passed fit to play for Dublin in their Allianz NHL Division 1 tie against Tipperary at Parnell Park on Sunday (throw-in 2.30pm).

CAPTAIN Shane Kavanagh claimed the Walsh Cup for the first time on Galway’s behalf and then declared the Tribesmen want to stay in Leinster permanently.

Dublin 2-16 NUI Galway 0-12

Dublin 3-16 Dubs Stars 1-11

Shane Ryan will line out for the Dublin Senior hurlers for the first time this Sunday, since his decision to quit the Blues' Senior football panel last October.

IRRESPECTIVE of how it was accomplished, Limerick qualifying for the All-Ireland hurling semi-final after a topsy-turvy campaign was a notable achievement for Justin McCarthy and his players in Thurles yesterday.

Former Limerick player Maurice O'Brien has been named in the Dublin team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SHC quarter-final clash with Limerick at Semple Stadium (throw-in 2pm).

GOING through the records, we have two very unusual situations tomorrow in Thurles, two games in which two teams have never beaten their opposition in championship – I’m talking about Galway and Dublin.

DUBLIN hurler Liam Rushe has labelled some of Kilkenny’s tackling as “dangerous” and intimated that the All-Ireland champions are being given more leeway by referees than other sides.

Kilkenny 2-18 Dublin 0-18

THIS time last year, I swore I’d never again go to a Kilkenny-Wexford Leinster final in Croke Park.

FOR THOSE who still don’t understand the difference between a manager and a coach, take a look at the challenge facing Anthony Daly on Sunday.

Dublin 0-18 Wexford 1-13

DUBLIN 2-16 ANTRIM 0-12

KILKENNY 1-23 DUBLIN 3-15

Dublin 0-15 Waterford 1-11

THERE was nothing surprising about the outcome of the first of the Kerry SFC quarter-finals in Tralee yesterday, just that it stretched the resources of a Kerins O’Rahilly’s side hampered by the absence of the injured Tommy Walsh more than expected.

Dublin 0-19 Wexford 2-13