Three of football’s ‘Big 4’ are in action this weekend, with All-Ireland champions Kerry, Mayo and Donegal all facing tough tests.

May seems to have become food and wine festival month. This weekend it is Wexford’s turn with a craft beer trail in the town tomorrow. Greenacres wine shop will be hosting wine tastings Saturday and Sunday.

Bride Rovers 3-18 Bishopstown 0-25 (after extra- time)

A steel casket used to transport the remains of ‘Ireland’s most famous Fenian’ is be restored and placed on display in West Cork.

If Cork had somebody to rope the wind, they might just have left Ballyshannon with a league point last Sunday.

WHEN Ireland’s golden couple, Brian O’Driscoll and Amy Huberman, announced the birth of their daughter, Sadie, in February 2013, they started a trend — Sadie became one of the most popular girls’ names in Ireland for the first time. Why are Irish parents, like Brian and Amy, opting for shorter versions for their children and do these and other trends have any long term impact, asks Nuala Woulfe

Apart from county senior football champions Castlehaven, only one other club has more than one player starting for Cork in Saturday’s All-Ireland SFC round 4A qualifier against Sligo at O’Connor Park in Tullamore (throw-in 5pm).

Castletownshend and Castlehaven

Ireland won’t go all the way unbeaten to the 2015 World Cup. What will inform Joe Schmidt’s thinking over the next 18 months is identifying those in his squad who will dip or crumble in defeats or bad performances. Or both.

The surprises continued unabated at the National Coursing meeting at Clonmel yesterday, another host of them to add to the first day tally.

ARE there any wines that are not improved by being paired with an appropriate food?

IT could be Boreenmanna from heaven — a brand new, A-rated energy efficient detached home, within a walk of Cork City centre, for €350,000.

A baby for one — and one on the way for another.

The president of the NPA, Jimmy Grainger of Kildare, has a long and varied tenure with the association as both competitor and judge before scaling the heights in the administrative side.

CENTRAL CITY’S victory in the Boylesports.com Derby at Clonmel on Wednesday was a performance that defied all the traditions of greyhound breeding and which could have a major effect on future breeding lines.

CENTRAL CITY, a track-bred dog who had his first outing on a coursing field at East Donegal on New Years Day when he was a fourth reserve in a All-Aged Stake, and then went on to win his trial stake at Tubbercurry, was a surprise winner of the Boylesport.Com Derby at Clonmel yesterday.

IT was a disastrous day for favourite backers on the second day of the National Coursing Meeting in Clonmel yesterday, with the long odds favourites in both the Derby and Oaks going out.

OONAGH O’Driscoll was lucky — if she had sold the entire block of Balmace Crescent, Fermoy, during the boom, she would have borrowed more millions to develop further.

A TRAUMATISED young boy who walked over a mile in torrential rain to get help for his mother and sister who later drowned was still asking for his mother last night.

Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan says there will be a host of World Cup spots up for grabs when his much-changed team take on Italy in Limerick tomorrow.