Limerick Golf Club may have their own battles ahead in the AIG Senior Cup today at Carton House but one of their sons left Kildare yesterday with an All Ireland winners’ medal following Ballybunion’s AIG Junior Cup victory.

Ballybunion moved a step closer to regaining the AIG Junior Cup for the first time since 2013 but it needed a 20th hole victory in the defining singles match at Carton House to edge their semi-final against Loughrea.

VOCATIONAL school principals will not spend their time minding classes that require supervision because of the Government’s decision to cut back on payments for substitute teachers, a conference has heard.

HUNDREDS of school principals have stopped sending important paperwork to the Department of Education until a row about more than €2 million owed to them is resolved.