THE expression on his face as he powered his way up the home straight said it all as Drogheda athlete, Keith Kelly, buried 10 years of frustration at Santry Park yesterday by claiming the National senior cross-country title for the first time at the age of 31.

MICHAEL CARMODY (Castletroy College, Limerick) led all the way to win the senior boys title at the Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships at Tramore Racecourse yesterday, when the lack of teacher cover due to the cutbacks was reflected in much smaller entries.

THIRTY students from 14 sporting disciplines were awarded scholarships by the Institute of Technology, Tralee (ITT) this week.

THE Institute of Technology, Tralee (IT, Tralee) has confirmed details of a €10.8 million infrastructure development on campus.

LEADING environmentalist Eanna Ní Lamhna yesterday hit out at “silly nonsense” spoken by people who had no environmental education and who thought humans were the only species on Earth.

FORTY students will take to the wilds all over the south-west of Ireland as part of two new courses launched yesterday in Muckross House, Killarney by the Institute of Technology, Tralee.

AN 18-year-old student died yesterday and his life-long friend, also 18, is in intensive care, following what is believed to have been a gas leak in a house in Tralee, Co Kerry.