Kilmallock 4-24 Na Piarsaigh 4-13

Kerry GAA officials will attempt over the next 48 hours to talk Jack O’Connor out of resignation as inter-county coach as the dearth of quality alternatives began to sink in in the Kingdom.

On an evening when Barry Geraghty completed a superb treble in the opening three races, it was Conor O’Dwyer who earned the plaudits when guiding the Jessica Harrington trained Bullock Harbour to a convincing victory in the ‘Legends’ race, the Foleys Antiques Supple Arkle Statue Maiden.

WICKLOW might become the first county Mick O’Dwyer will depart without winning championship silverware but the ethos and style of football that the Kerry legend has promoted for over half a century is clearly embedded in the Garden County.

PATIENTS are having to wait about 15 months for a routine MRI scan at Cork University Hospital while a CT scanner at Mallow Hospital in Co Cork promised by the Government four years ago is still lying idle.

Diagnosing the 21 year-old apprentice butcher accused of murdering his sister as suffering from a mental disorder was an attempt to ‘clutch at straws,’ the director of the Central Hospital said today.

CONOR O’DWYER has been passed fit to return to action at Aintree on Saturday after breaking a small bone around his left ankle.