A judge has jailed “a cowboy of the worst kind” for four months after the Co Clare man was “involved in sabotaging Irish agriculture”.

The Munster senior championship will dominate bowling for the next few weeks, starting with both semi-finals at the weekend.

He’ll stay strictly professional, save maybe the odd colourful remark, but at least one Kerry voice in Killarney tomorrow will be shouting for Cork. And it’s a very familiar voice to Cork radio listeners. C103 match commentator and raconteur Paudie Palmer.

TWO BABIES born late last year in Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe have died. Seven families in all have had their babies referred for “brain cooling” because of suspected “apoxia” — lack of oxygen to the brain — during their births at the hospital.

South Kerry SFC final: St Mary’s 0-14 Waterville Frank Casey’s 0-7

Seamus Sexton beat Pat Butler by a bowl in a brilliant Munster intermediate championship quarter-final at Timoleague.

Aidan Murphy and Christy Mullins will contest the Munster senior final on Sunday July 6 at Ballygurteen.

Bowling fans throughout the country are mourning the loss of Willie Carroll, the doyen of Connacht bowling, who died at the weekend.

PJ Cooney and Davey Fitzgerald had good wins in the Munster intermediate championship during a weekend packed with championship scores in all grades.

Bishopstown 2-15 Ilen Rovers 0-8

David Murphy has his Munster senior championship campaign back on track after a last-shot win over John Creedon at Kealkill.

OXYTOCIN. Women’s love drug. The drug associated with her sexual pleasure, with bringing on her labour and bringing down her breast milk.

Gary Daly kept his championship ambitions alive with a good last shot win over Christy Mullins in Pool C of the Munster senior championship at Shannonvale.

David Murphy continued his march to the Munster senior championship quarter-final with a bowl-of-odds win over Nicholas Carey at Templemichael on Sunday.

Martin Coppinger beat Aidan Murphy in the last shot of a brilliant three-way Munster championship play-off at Skibbereen on Sunday — with James O’Donovan third.

Martin Coppinger kept his Munster senior championship hopes alive when he beat James O’Donovan by five metres at Bauravilla on Sunday.

COLÁISTE Chríost Rí shaded a gripping Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final encounter in Rathmore yesterday and also booked their berth in the last four of the competition for the first time since 2005.

THANKS mainly to the match-winning heroics of centre-back Paul Clancy, Moycullen fashioned a one- point triumph over Annascaul in yesterday’s All-Ireland IFC semi-final clash at the Limerick Gaelic Grounds.