Aidan Walsh of St Mary’s makes his league debut as Kerry make seven changes for tomorrow’s Allianz FL Division 1 clash with Down at Páirc Esler in Newry (2pm).

A 69th minute Conor McKinley point was crucial as Antrim dug deep to claim their 55th Ulster Senior Hurling title in Owenbeg this afternoon.

St Vincent’s Cork 39 Our Lady’s Castleblayney 17: St Vincent’s picked up Cork’s second win at the U14 All Ireland Schools Finals week with a 39-17 win over Our Lady’s Castleblayney yesterday.

Thierry Henry couldn’t keep a straight face last night as Robbie Savage of all people argued that the referee in the France – Honduras game was too lenient.

Donegal 1-10 Dublin 0-13

President Michael D Higgins has called on the Ireland team to do what is necessary in Euro 2012 as they open their championship bid against Croatia.

Down recovered from a nightmare start to beat Meath and qualify for the Christy Ring Cup semi-finals.

Down and Wicklow booked Christy Ring Cup semi-final berths, while Derry and London, and Meath and Kildare will contest quarter-final ties next weekend.

Denis Lynch has Lantinus and All Inclusive to choose from in the first round of tomorrow’s Global Champions Tour in Doha, Qatar, though yesterday he had yet to decide which horse to use.

DOWN’S hurlers strolled to an Ulster SHC semi-final, hammering Derry by 16 points at Casement Park yesterday.

Manchester United 5 Portsmouth 0

THE role that shows play in rural life has been praised by Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith, when he officially launched the Irish Shows Association 2009 Year Book in Roscommon town.

Gardaí in Co Monaghan have confirmed that the body recovered in a lake is that of missing teenager Michael Hughes.

The economy is in crisis, but services to people with mental illness have been in crisis since the ’80s and the consequences are all around us, writes Claire O’Sullivan.

As the Garda launches its knife awareness campaign, recent court cases offer a brief glimpse into the growing knife culture and underline the need to tackle it, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

A jury has found a Dublin man who killed a stranger with garden shears not guilty of murder by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin man who killed a stranger with garden shears because he thought he was the devil has pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court.

Alexandra and Mario are today waking up in the knowledge that their days in the Big Brother house could be numbered.

Two of the 'Big Brother' housemates should be singing “I’m getting married in the morning” but, instead, fake couple Mario Marconi and Stephanie McMichael are wondering if anyone has fallen for their act.

Westmeath 2-10 Longford 1-10

SHOWS are an important part of the fabric of Irish life, according to John Browne, the new chairman of their national umbrella body, the Irish Shows Association.

Two post mortems will be carried out today on two bodies found in Dublin and Galway on Saturday.

The body of Longford student Michael Hughes has been recovered in Galway.

DOWN 1-12 DERRY 1-6, Casement Park

AS TWO doctors were last night treated in hospital after being stabbed by a psychiatric patient in Limerick, it has emerged that the Health Service Executive was forewarned by experts there would be “tragic, violent consequences” of a lack of secure psychiatry beds at a psychiatric facility only last month.

A MURDER suspect was yesterday remanded in custody over the brutal killing of a man in Dublin.

Two men are due in court this morning on separate murder charges.

While it is improper to jump to any conclusions about who was responsible for the murder of Michael Hughes last weekend, his death in a frenzied attack, in which he was stabbed at least 80 times, has again focused attention on the area of psychiatric illness.

THE chief suspect for the brutal killing of a 30-year-old man in a flat complex was last night in Garda custody.

The chief suspect for the brutal killing of a 30-year-old man in a flat complex is tonight in garda custody.

DISTURBED and violent psychiatric patients have nowhere to go due to a chronic shortage of secure beds, according to Fine Gael spokesman for Mental Heath, Dan Neville.

Gardaí have released the name of a 30-year-old man killed in a Dublin apartment early on Saturday.

THE agricultural shows which begin over the May Bank Holiday weekend are much more than a great day out for rural people — they also play an important role in raising standards in the country’s sport horse, livestock and artisan food sectors.

LEWIS GRABBAN’S injury-time goal gave Crystal Palace a 3-2 Coca Cola Championship victory over West Brom at The Hawthorns, denting Albion’s promotion hopes.

Fermanagh 0-8 Kerry 1-12

Three players saw red as Kerry claimed their second Division 1A win at Breffni Park, defeating Fermanagh by 0-08 to 1-12.

Crystal Palace have signed midfielder Carl Fletcher from West Ham in a £400,000 deal.

The Kildare County Board will take their case to the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) after they had their appeal against the Leinster Council's decision to award Offaly a win in the Leinster SFC quarter-final turned down by the GAA's Central Appeals Committee (CAC) last night.

A spokesman for the Oblate Fathers has denied that a residential school in Co Offaly was "a living hell" for pupils during the 1950s and 1960s.

Kildare 0-15 Offaly 3-9