Salvaged flooring with stiletto marks on it and a traditional farm cottage exterior — RTÉs Home of the Year 2017 is far from a trendy new build.

IT Carlow 4-16

A wannabe robber told a frightened shop owner “sorry” during the course of an attempted robbery before fleeing from the shop empty- handed.

NUI Galway 0-16 University of Limerick 0-15: University of Limerick’s Fitzgibbon Cup title defence remains on track despite a narrow defeat to NUIG at Rhebogue in Limerick.

Clonlara 3-11

As the pressure mounts on students and their families to find accommodation for the new term, one campaign to make more rooms available to students is beginning to bear fruit.

LIMERICK 0-22 CLARE 0-19:

Seamount College, Kinvara 1-5 St Flannan’s College, Ennis 0-6

Corner-back Tom Fox’s point on 80 minutes ensured this dramtic Fitzgibbon Cup final would require a second day out.

St Flannan’s, Ennis 1-4 Coachford College 0-3: Munster Colleges Senior A camogie final: St Flannan’s College secured a second consecutive Munster Colleges Senior A camogie title after a bruising encounter on Saturday in Cloughduv.

A priest and his sister who were extremely close in life and died on the same day, have been laid to rest in Youghal, Co Cork, following joint Requiem Mass.

Waterford 4-18 Clare 1-10

After almost 15 years of seeing cars crash into his front garden and home, an 82-year-old retired farmer has finally had a crash barrier erected in front of his house.

The Munster Council of the GAA is doing the work of 62 full-time PE teachers in the province, according to a new report.

The dramatic slide in Munster senior hurling championship attendances appears to have been arrested with this year’s estimated figures showing only a small drop from 2011.

The Munster Council are bracing themselves for one of the lowest crowds for a provincial senior football final in the last 50 years.

Anthony Daly has become the latest high profile hurling figure to condemn the price of a covered stand ticket for Sunday’s Munster semi-final between Clare and Waterford.

Munster GAA officials will introduce a new raft of price incentives to boost attendances at this year’s Championship venues.

The Munster Council has adopted a common-sense approach to venue selection for the Waterford Crystal Cup and other competitions – and they’re reaping the rewards in terms of atmosphere and attendance, say officials.

A TOP Munster Council official told a National Sports Conference in Limerick yesterday that the GAA may have to change its club structure to meet the challenge of increased urbanisation.

HE began the game on the bench but by the full-time whistle, Joseph Barry had made a defining contribution in tipping yesterday’s Dr Harty Cup Group C encounter in Charleville, in the direction of St Flannan’s.

THE detective responsible for exposing the horrific sex abuse in the diocese of Raphoe in Donegal has said the lid is set to explode on the entire affair.

A PRIEST from the Diocese of Cloyne has called on diocesan officials to provide details of the 1999 unfair dismissal case, which was withdrawn after Bishop John Magee reportedly paid the former employee £40,000 and demanded a confidentiality clause.

LEINSTER chairman Martin Skelly has said the GAA have nothing to fear about the return of replays to all provincial games next year.

ATTENDANCES for the Munster senior hurling championship matches were down for the third consecutive year in 2010.

AN 80-year-old retired farmer who has lived in fear of cars crashing into his home for over a decade, may soon be able to use his front door again following news that Clare County Council will erect a crash barrier outside his home.

AN elderly man is living in fear after another serious road crash outside his home – only 10 days after the last incident when a car crashed into his property.

AN elderly man has had a miraculous escape after a car crashed through his front wall and into his home.

Eye-witnesses in the trial of a man and woman accused of murdering Darren McKeown in Drogheda in 2007, saw his head hitting the ground full force after being pushed, and later being kicked in the head by a woman.

THE Munster Council has stressed the importance of balanced development plans for GAA clubs if they wish to avoid having “fantastic facilities but limited playing resources”.

KIERAN DONAGHY has stepped up his bid for a dramatic return to Kerry colours for the All-Ireland final by taking a full part in Kingdom training.

WHATEVER reasoning was used by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Barry Andrews, when he decided not to immediately publish a Department of Health commissioned report into how allegations of child sexual abuse were handled by the Diocese of Cloyne, it stinks to high heaven.