THERE is much talk this week of the last NHL Final meeting of Kilkenny and Clare in 1995 and how the Banner went on to win the All-Ireland championship, their first in over eight decades.

The Minister for Justice Michael McDowell is being urged to help reunite the families of two Nigerian women, who were deported from the midlands almost two weeks ago.

NIALL McINERNEY, the former Sixmilebridge, Clare and Galway hurler who died yesterday, aged 55, was one of the most accomplished players of his generation.

IT was a case yesterday of Cork city’s Central Fire Station revisited for President Mary McAleese.

David Ryan, the former Irish Assistants' Champion from the Cork Club at Little Island, swept to the top of the leaderboard at Shannon in the first round of the €22,860 Dr William Flynn Memorial pro-am that is sponsored by Shell.