Shamrock Rovers kept hot on the heels of Dundalk at the summit of the Premier Division with a deserved victory over relegation-threatened Finn Harps at Finn Park.

Cork City’s woes continued as a 76th-minute equaliser from captain Keith Cowan secured a draw for Finn Harps at Turner’s Cross last night.

Waterford cruised to their third win of the SSE Airtricity Premier Division with a four-star display against Finn Harps at the RSC last night.

As Dublin star Diarmuid Connolly looks set to head out to the US for the summer in the coming days, the allure of Gaelic football in Boston is proving extremely attractive, with a host of inter-county and elite club talent basing themselves there this summer.

Tomorrow marks the 10th national final in 10 years between Kilkenny and Tipperary, writes Enda McEvoy

Strategy requires thought, while tactics need only observation. Does that help us with what happened yesterday, in Nowlan Park?

Fitzgibbon Cup: IT Carlow 1-22 - Mary Immaculate, Limerick 0-22: Fourteen-man IT Carlow, coached by Kilkenny legend DJ Carey, laid down an impressive marker when taking the scalp of defending Fitzgibbon Cup champions Mary Immaculate of Limerick in a thrilling, full-blooded opening-round tie at the Heywood Community College in Laois yesterday.

IT Carlow 4-16

The dream week for Tipperary hurling, anything but for neighbours Limerick.

Champions Loughmore-Castleiney and Cahir will do battle in the Tipperary SFC final next weekend following their wins over Aherlow Gaels and Thomas MacDonaghs respectively in yesterday’s semi-finals.

Millstreet 1-09 St Finbarr’s 1-08

Two injury-time points gave Clonmel Commercials a 1-8 to 1-6 victory over great rivals Clonmel Óg in the Tipperary SFC at Monroe on Saturday evening.

Snowball fights took over from birdie blitzes as heavy snowfall forced play to be suspended in the first round of the Accenture Match Play in Arizona.

Walking to school may be tough work for little legs, but pupils at Scoil Cholmcille take it all in their stride, Education Correspondent Niall Murray reports

Kilkenny qualified for the All-Ireland Vocational SAHC final after a six points win over Limerick at Mick Neville Park, Rathkeale.

The second event of the FedEx Cup play-off series was bracing itself today for the possibility of disruption caused by Hurricane Earl.

A chronic drug addict who forced his way into a family home and stabbed a man in front of his wife has been given a 12-year sentence for this offence as well as a spate of armed robberies and storing explosives for a criminal.

A drug addict who hid €600 worth of heroin in her underwear while her partner brandished a large sword at gardai has been given an 18-month suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

TWO of Ireland’s leading female boxers, Olga Cronin (Dungarvan) and Laura O’Neill (Kilkenny), will touch gloves when Rylane Boxing Club stage a star-studded charity show in aid of Macroom Hospital at the River Park Hotel in Macroom on Sunday night.

Ben Curtis played down talk of an easy victory in the Booz Allen Classic despite being eight stokes clear when bad weather called a halt to the final round in Maryland.

Douglas 2-7 Blackrock 1-7

Lee Westwood led golf’s richest event, the £4.5million Players Championship in Florida, when more bad weather hit Sawgrass today.

Lee Westwood overcame a double bogey to regain the outright lead when golf’s richest event, the £4.5million Players Championship in Florida, resumed briefly today.

Ernie Els was the luckiest man at Sawgrass today after it was decided that the second round of the €6.5m Players Championship, golf’s richest event, would start all over again.

In keeping with an event which in time wants to be considered one of golf’s majors, the Players Championship has never in its 31-year history been decided over anything less than four rounds.