Thomastown (Kilkenny) 2-13 Rathmolyon (Meath)1-7

Directors’ pay levels at Dublin-based drug development company, Merrion Pharmaceuticals increased by almost €700,000 last year, despite the company’s net losses doubling.

Three key questions to be answered by the next generation this summer

Defending All-Ireland champions, St Kieran’s College wrapped-up a hat-trick of victories in the Leinster Colleges SAHC and collected their 51st title when beating city rival Kilkenny CBS in a thrilling final.

It was only in the final minutes of this exciting Leinster Colleges SAHC semi-final at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow yesterday that All-Ireland champions St Kieran’s hit four unanswered points to book a provincial final place against Kilkenny CBS.

Clare 1-10 Waterford 0-10

Offaly 0-15 Waterford 0-10

TOMORROW afternoon’s final round of games in the National Football League creates the annual complex set of promotion and relegation permutations.

THEY may be on the cusp of promotion from football’s basement division but those in the Waterford ranks aren’t about to celebrate just yet.

WATERFORD 1-16 LONDON 0-8

WATERFORD football boss John Owens has revealed dual stars Gary Hurney and Shane Walsh are set to concentrate solely on hurling this year.

WATERFORD were on the cusp of a momentous success over Kerry in yesterday’s McGrath Cup quarter-final in Fitzgerald Stadium.

All-Ireland champions Kerry required two late goals from target man Kieran Donaghy to beat Waterford 2-12 to 3-5 in this afternoon's McGrath Cup quarter-final clash at Fitzgerald Stadium.

FUNDS raised by Irish technology firms have fallen by close to €20 million this year, while the number of companies looking for financing more than doubled.

IRISH venture capital companies are on track to have up to €1.4 billion available for investment in Irish industry by the end of the year.

A WEEKEND to show how a green future could look takes place this Saturday and Sunday in Co Down where sustainable and environmentally friendly living will be on the agenda.

US troops clashed with suspected Sunni insurgents holed up in a mosque north of Baghdad and launched an air-to-ground Hellfire missile into the structure.

PROFESSOR Michael Donnelly, chief executive of Growcorp, has been elected chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA).

KAY’S TAVERN IN DUNDALK

THE arguments surrounding Terri Schiavo will live on in US state legislatures debate and new laws, if an emerging coalition of disability rights activists and right-to-lifers succeed in turning the national agony over her case into a re-examination of when and how our lives come to an end.

A man was remanded in custody today charged with assaulting a leading dissident republican at his home six years ago.

Everton (Cork) 1 Waterford United 3

Alleged Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt wanted his planned new terror organisation’s first strike to be bigger than the Omagh bomb atrocity, a court heard today.

FBI agent David Rupert told the Special Criminal Court today the alleged leader of the Real IRA Michael McKevitt told him the August 1998 Omagh bombing, the worst terrorist atrocity in the history of the troubles, was a joint operation by the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA.