Second place on the Sunset Rally at Nutts Corner for Belfast’s Jonny Greer (Citroen DS3R5) was enough to win the McGrady Insurance Northern Ireland Rally Championship and deny Derek McGarrity an eighth title.

Eulogised on his death as a hero, it is easy to forget how reviled Ali once was in his homeland Neal Gabler

It’s as if this year, the 24-hour channels have effectively turned into around-the-clock tribute-obituary shows.

Ballybunion-based Grasshopper Skateboards aims to break into the UK and US markets with its eco-friendly designs

A 24-year-old Tralee man called an ambulance to the Square in Listowel town centre so he and his drunken friend could get a lift back home, Listowel District Court was told.

House costs may going up, but the price of this riverside folly in West Limerick has just come down dramatically.

The gloves worn by Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston during their infamous 1965 rematch and a rare century-old signed photo of Shoeless Joe Jackson have fetched over $1.1m (€960,000) at an auction.

Last week, just before he would inspire Austin Stacks to their first county title in 20 years and win the right to captain Kerry in 2015, Kieran Donaghy ran a five-day basketball camp for 150 kids in his hometown of Tralee.

Marc Ó Sé says he doesn’t care if Kerry aren’t given the credit they deserve for their latest All-Ireland title because of their heritage.

I spent a chunk of last Saturday afternoon on the M8 heading south, and one thing impressed me more than the BMW jeep that went past me at a speed of — give it a rough guess — about 700 miles per hour.

Having heard fellow columnist Derval O’Rourke sing the praises of David Epstein’s The Sports Gene, nothing would do me but to track the man down for a chat, and we made contact last week.

JOHN RIORDAN The second instalment of Ali-Liston may have produced one of the most iconic images of sport in the 20th Century but there’s a refreshing spontaneity in the boyish wonder of Cassius Clay when he won the world heavyweight title for the first time.

Seamus Darby, scorer of the most famous goal in GAA history, has paid tribute to the man who supplied him with the decisive pass in the 1982 All-Ireland SFC final.

Kerry’s Eoin Brosnan, who announced his retirement from inter-county football yesterday, has been described as a “fantastic servant to the green and gold”.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice fired a thinly veiled broadside at Kerry legend Eoin Liston last night for Twitter comments that forced the Kingdom into announcing their Munster final team earlier than planned.

Tralee Town Council will have to pay out more than €40,000 in compensation in two separate claims involving children falling, the Circuit Court ruled in Kerry yesterday.

The death has occurred of former Heineken managing director and Musgrave commercial director, Padraig Liston.

The GAA’s greatest and most enduring All Star was never selected as an All Star!

A new €4m emergency department (ED) opens at Kerry General Hospital in Tralee today.

John Egan will be remembered as one of Kerry’s greatest footballers, according to his former team-mate Eoin ‘Bomber’ Liston.

WHEN Bob Lipsyte was a kid in New York, he went to a total of two professional baseball games.

OFFALY dairy farmer Kevin Heavin was overjoyed to be named Macra na Feirme’s FBD Young Farmer of the Year.

Remember so long ago when we stayed up until dawn to watch Clay and Liston and Frazier fighting their battles behind the snowfalls on black and white TV sets?

THERE’S 60 acres of miscanthus (elephant grass) growing on this 114-acre farm at Newcastlewest, Co Limerick, and this energy crop is due to be harvested next March.

CORK Opera House recorded a €286,346 loss for the financial year ended last March but has agreed an ambitious business plan to secure its future.

DON’T rush to judgment on the future for Kerry football following the weekend failure to end Down’s significant record against the Kingdom in the All-Ireland football championship.

IRISH International Rules selector Eoin ‘Bomber’ Liston has rubbished speculation that Kerry players are set to boycott this autumn’s series against Australia.

ARRANGEMENTS are being made to fast-track social welfare payments for staff of Cork Opera House, who will be temporarily laid off next month.

ONE of the country’s largest theatres is to close for three months as part of a cost-cutting survival plan.

THE former boss of brewing giant Heineken Ireland has been appointed the interim executive director of Cork Opera House.

FIRST things first. Jimmy McGuinness is chatting idly about his playing days in Donegal when he casually remarks in a thick north-western accent that he’s “a half Kerryman”.

THE state has dropped a dangerous driving causing death charge against a Kerryman who drove into an accident scene, killing a garda and a firefighter.

DIVIDING public and private sector workers is merely a Government-inspired attempt to weaken the labour movement, was the key message from trade union leaders to tens of thousands partaking in ICTU’s National Day of Protest yesterday.

A JURY in the trial of a Kerryman charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of a garda and a firefighter were last night discharged at Limerick Circuit Court after they could not agree on a verdict following three weeks of evidence.

THE sanctions in place to deal with violent play will ensure “a clean series” between Ireland and Australia this time, according to Kerry great Eoin Liston.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions will decide whether a 20-year-old Kerry motorist will be retried on a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of a garda and a firefighter after a jury at Limerick Circuit Court yesterday could not reach a verdict.

AFTER a Kerry-registered Audi crashed into an accident scene killing a garda and a firefighter, one person emerged from the passenger side of the vehicle saying: “Sorry about that lads,” Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.

A FIREFIGHTER told how he was knocked to the ground by the body of a colleague which had been hurled violently through the air when a car smashed into emergency services personnel as they were attending a road traffic accident in Co Limerick.

A GARDA and a firefighter were killed instantly when an apprentice carpenter driving with excess alcohol ploughed into them while they attended an accident scene, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

KERRY legend Eoin Liston believes the GAA should adopt the disciplinary system operated by their AFL counterparts.

EXACTLY two months after discharging himself from a psychiatric hospital, a 26-year-old man who claimed he was the Archangel Gabriel stabbed a Garda sergeant before thrusting two knives into his own chest, killing himself almost instantly.

THE fire service in Co Limerick has erected a plaque at Foynes fire station to commemorate colleague Mike Liston who died one year ago in a road incident along with Garda Brian Kelleher who was stationed in Croom.