Seven Irish players contest this week’s Scottish Open but while Pádraig Harrington will tee up on the acclaimed Castle Stuart course to the east of Inverness with the comfort of a British Open tee time, it won’t be the same for six others.

Stephen Healy (Claremorris) will represent the home province on the final day of the Radisson Blu-sponsored West of Ireland Amateur Open Championship at Rosses Point today after a clear-cut 4 and 3 triumph over Nicholas Grant (Knock) in their quarter-final yesterday.

DAIRY products play an important role within a balanced diet to keep sports enthusiasts at the top of their game, say leading nutritionists.

THE yawning gap of 34 years since David Young was the last man from host club Royal Portrush to win the North of Ireland Amateur Open Championship closed yesterday.

DANNY FURLONG’S superb hat-trick helped rekindle lowly Wexford Youths’ season as they produced one of the shocks of the round, totally outplaying Premier Division side Derry at Ferrycarrig Park last night.

Derry City 7 UCD 0

SLIGO substitute Aaron Green left almost 4,000 fans stunned at the Brandywell last night after he came on to score an 88th-minute winner for his new club.

Defiant residents in a coastal commuter town have threatened to disrupt work on one of the country’s largest energy projects over safety concerns.

THERE is very little that can be said about road safety that has not been said a thousand times, but we must keep making the arguments because people keep dying in awful, sometimes avoidable, traffic accidents.

The number of people seeking housing debt help in the North trebled in a year, it was revealed today.

Defending champion Joe Swail will take on Martin McCrudden in the first round of the Irish Professional Snooker Championship in Dublin next month.

Cavan 0-11 Limerick 2-8

The terrifying sounds of domestic life shattered by bullets blasting into a living room 29 years ago on Bloody Sunday were played back to the Saville inquiry today.