BALLYLONGFORD

Following on from my piece last week about minerals this coming season, I had a phone call from Noel Lynch, business development manager with Inform Nutrition in Cork.

Two men will appear in court this morning in relation to the murder of a man whose body was found in a bog in north Kerry during a planned Garda search on Sunday.

Ground conditions were extremely demanding at yesterday’s Pigeon Hill & Carrigtwohill point-to-point fixture, but Croom-based civil engineer Fergus O’Connor was still the happiest individual at the Clyduff venue as he recorded his fourth career success by guiding his wife Irene Walsh’s Pocket Reader (10/1) to a popular success in the Winners’ Of One.

TWO horse racing legends led the field a merry dance at Munster Rugby’s annual golf classic at Dundrum House Hotel in Cashel.

ANY chance Kerry can get back to football? Don’t hold your breath, but if there are two GAA teams capable of serving up the best of Kingdom fare in tomorrow’s AIB county SFC final in Tralee, they are An Ghaeltacht and Laune Rangers (3pm).