Mallow hurlers suffered heartbreak in the Cork Premier IHC final, but there was joy for their supporters yesterday as their footballers showed tremendous character to be crowned Premier IFC champions at the newly revamped Páirc Uí Chaoimh. 

Stuart Grehan fired in a flawless three-under-par opening round of 69 in tough conditions to lead the Irish assault on the European Amateur Championship in Estonia.

A Kerry man who twice raped a 73-year-old woman after breaking into her home and leaving her “waiting for death” has been jailed for 13 years.

A Kerry man who twice raped a 73-year-old woman after breaking into her home and leaving her “waiting for death” has been jailed for 13 years.

A Kerry man who twice raped a 74-year-old woman after breaking into her home left “the victim sobbing uncontrollably like a small child, broken, terrorised and waiting for death”.

Glenville 1-2 Knockavilla 0-3: Glenville claimed the Allianz Sciath na Scol DGF5 Football title as they saw off the spirited challenge of Knockavilla in yesterday’s decider at Páirc Uí Rinn.

For some reason, I was never overly fond of the word ‘mobility’. 

Everywhere I turn recently, somebody somewhere is prescribing the antidote for the terminal ills of gaelic football. But I’m not so sure the sickness is as widespread and as life-threatening as has been suggested, writes Michael Quirke.

Whitechurch 5-5 Inch 2-4

Maurice Kelly will be aiming to complete a magnificent quick-fire double when he competes at the British Seniors Amateur Championship, which gets underway at Ganton, Yorkshire, this morning.

Mortgage customers will be able to retain their tracker mortgages if moving home, thanks to a new product announced by AIB yesterday.

The first steps to remove a controversial anomaly in golf’s handicap system were taken at this week’s Golfing Union of Ireland Munster Branch AGM at the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow.

Michael Darragh Macauley believes his years of playing basketball at schools and club level have played an important part in making him the All-Ireland and All-Star-winning Gaelic footballer he is today.

Ireland made golfing history at the weekend by becoming the first country to win both the senior men’s and women’s Team Championships in the same year.

Pádraig Harrington sent his penultimate shot a dozen rows deep into a final hole grandstand but then chipped-in for birdie to be just three strokes from the lead after two rounds of the Omega European Masters.

Kerins O’Rahillys 2-09 South Kerry 1-10

Kerins O’Rahillys 0-15 Kilcummin 1-7

Michael Quirke (Doneraile) is the Irish Seniors Amateur Open champion after winning a three-hole play-off with American Bev Hargraves, whose final round 72 closed what had began as a four-shot gap.

Cork’s Michael Quirke maintained his strong bid, at sunny Malone yesterday, to land his first All-Ireland Seniors’ Amateur Open Championship title and goes into today’s final action with a three shots cushion.

TWO late goals by Portugal brought a disappointing end to a promising Ireland U21 performance in last night’s friendly.

Portugal Under-21 2 Republic of Ireland Under-21 0

MICHAEL QUIRKE wants to start a Coventry City goalkeeping double for Ireland this evening when he debuts for the U21s in a friendly against Portugal in Águeda (5.15pm kick-off).

Republic of Ireland U-21s boss Noel King has handed first call-ups to Coventry keeper Michael Quirke and Preston midfielder Adam Barton.

SHOW jumper Jessica Kürten’s slide down the Rolex World Rankings continued last month, with the Antrim woman now lying 20th.

Allied Irish Bank has announced around 50,000 homeowners are to be hit with a rise in mortgage interest rates.

The GAA today broke new ground by launching the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship at a club venue for the first time, with players from all four provinces on hand to launch the 2010 campaign at Kerins O'Rahillys' clubhouse in Tralee.

IN order of priority, Kieran Donaghy’s excellence at full-forward, outstanding free-taking from the returning Colm Cooper and a marvellous save from goalkeeper Brendan Kealy just before half-time were the primary factors in Kerry avoiding a three-game losing sequence in Tralee yesterday.

Match winning hero Evan Talty admitted after Kilmurry Ibrickane's dramatic Munster SFC final win over Kerins O'Rahillys that he closed his eyes when knocking over the decisive point in the 0-7 to 0-6 victory at the Gaelic Grounds.

THE availability of David Moran could be the decisive factor when Kerins O’Rahillys and Kilmurry-Ibrickane face off in tomorrow’s Munster club football final in the Gaelic Grounds.

MOYLE ROVERS will be wearing a set of Tipperary jerseys when they meet Kerry outfit Kerins O’Rahillys in Sunday’s AIB Munster club football semi-final – and manager Jim Cahill believes that could be a lucky omen.

THE curtain has come down on top-level basketball in Kerry after Abrakebabra Tigers Tralee withdrew from the Nivea for Men SuperLeague for the coming season.

ONCE again a minnow had come to tackle the Kerry citadel and once again they were left to lick their wounds and consider what might have been.

Kerry 2-12 Antrim 1-10

Tony Hayes (K Club) set the pace after the opening round of the 54 holes Irish Seniors Amateur Close Championship, sponsored by Tourism Malaysia, when he shot a one under par 71 at Roscommon Golf Club.

KILLIAN YOUNG makes a return, Darragh O Sé gets a starting place at midfield and Tommy Walsh is fit to play in the full-forward position as a new-look Kerry team prepare to take on Cork in the Munster SFC semi-final replay at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.

FOR the first time since he began his illustrious career 14 years ago, Darragh O Sé has been excluded from the Kerry team to meet Cork in Sunday’s glamour Munster SFC semi-final clash with Cork at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney.

ANDREW STRACEY (Littlestone GC, Kent), fired a final round 78 to win the Irish Seniors Amateur Open Championship at Bangor Golf Club yesterday.

NICHOLAS MURPHY is likely to be fit to play with Cork in Saturday’s Allianz NFL clash with Laois at O’Moore Park, Portlaoise. The All Star damaged a tendon against Fermanagh last week and was replaced by John Hayes.

WITH time almost up in Sunday’s Kerry SFC final it seemed if Jack O’Connor’s tenure as Kerins O'Rahillys manager was to end in triumph.