UCC 1-12 Cork IT 1-9

Plans for this year’s Daffodil Day have been waterproofed, with many indoor activities organised in addition to the usual outdoor collections.

Commodore Mark Mellett is set to become the most senior Irish naval officer in the history of the State following his appointment as Deputy Chief of Staff (Support) of the Defence Forces.

They came to say goodbye to an old lady who served her country faithfully for 35 years, during which time she sailed the equivalent distance to the moon and back.

Naas left it late but three points in the closing stages by Kildare senior panellist Conor Mellett were enough to give his team a 0-11 to 0-10 win over Maynooth in Newbridge last evening in the last of the Kildare SFC quarter-finals.

Damien Cahalane (Cork)

A new generation of ships being built for the naval service will carry unmanned planes along with deep sea search and rescue robot submarines.

Ireland will have the “smartest, most innovative and responsive” navy in the world within the next few years.

Margins have been fine in this year’s Munster Senior Schoolgirls Cup, and it took sudden-death penalty strokes to crown Bandon Grammar as the 2012 champions in yesterday’s dramatic decider in Rosbrien.

WHEN UCC lined out against St Nicholas in the fourth round of this year’s Cork SFC, just 17 players togged out as they edged a two-point win.

TWO elements of infrastructure which have undergone major change in rural Ireland over the past decade have been post offices and pubs. Both are regarded as integral to rural communities, acting on one level as essential to warding off rural isolation.

LAWS to set out minimum prices for alcoholic drinks are the only hope for the pub industry, publicans’ representatives have claimed.

LEINSTER’S U18 schools side left Cork with a victory over Munster to their names last night, just as their predecessors did 111 years ago.

A WOMAN driving a car through a toll on a multi-million euro motorway narrowly escaped injury when the barrier came down on her windscreen.

A WOMAN driving a car through a toll on a multi-million euro motorway narrowly escaped injury when the barrier came down on her windscreen.

THERE was some friendly sibling rivalry in the ranks yesterday as “‘brothers-in-arms” were among 37 naval recruits who took part in a passing-out parade at Haulbowline.

GARDAÍ were last night facing allegations of a cover-up over the death of a 20-year-old in custody.

THE savage murder of Gary Douch, who was kicked, strangled and beaten to death in his Mountjoy prison cell, is to be probed by a commission of investigation.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell today announced that a Commission of Investigation is to be established into the death of Gary Douch, who died following an attack on him while he was a prisoner in Mountjoy prison on August 1, 2006.

RTÉ style guru Caroline Morahan yesterday laced up her hiking boots to launch the Focus Ireland Four Peaks mountain challenge.

THE appointment of a former Justice Department official to investigate last week’s murder of Gary Douch in Mountjoy Prison has been criticised by the Inspector of Prisons, Mr Justice Dermot Kinlen.

Calls have been made to speed up plans for a new prison for Spike Island following a series of chronic overcrowding problems and a number of violent incidents in Cork and Dublin prisons in recent days.

THE necessity to establish an independent inquiry into the death of a prisoner in Mountjoy Prison is indicative of the intolerable overcrowding conditions that have been allowed to flourish in recent years by the policy of the present Government, spearheaded by Justice Minister Michael McDowell.