HORESWOOD upset the formbook by defeating champions Castletown in yesterday’s thrilling Wexford SFC final at Wexford Park.

HOT favourites Skryne were made battle all the way by well-organised Castletown in a highly competitive Leinster club senior football quarter-final clash at Navan’s Páirc Tailteann.

A SPLENDID first-half try by winger Jack Frawley, converted from the touch-line by Diarmuid Dee, gave Crescent a 7-0 victory over Rockwell in the quarter-final of the Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Junior Cup at Dooradoyle yesterday.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a Kilkenny teenager told different stories to gardaí and to friends about an injury he sustained around the time of a murder of which he’s accused.

The Democratic Unionists’ refusal to engage with Sinn Féin in talks on the future of the Good Friday Agreement shows a lack of conviction in their own position, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said tonight.