Over the last while, I’ve been listening to Alan O’Mara’s excellent podcast ‘Real Talks’.

ON a cold January evening in Paris in 1938, Samuel Beckett was walking home with some friends after a night on the town when he was accosted and suddenly stabbed by a pimp called Prudent.

Cork’s nine-year wait for a Munster MHC final appearance is over as Denis Ring’s young troops produced a hugely impressive performance to down the reigning champions in this evening’s semi-final replay.

A moving story about a troop of heroic Irish soldiers on a mission in the Congo was the big winner at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards, scooping three prestigious gongs.

Dublin need only a point on Sunday to seal a fifth straight Division 1 final appearance. 

Thurles CBS 0-14 Abbey CBS 0-9: It was not an afternoon for aesthetics as Thurles CBS ground out a five-point win over John Kiely’s Abbey CBS side in greasy conditions to book their place in the last eight of the Dr Harty Cup.

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Agriculture must share in Ireland’s bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% relative to the 2005 level.

Secondary and third level students will gain insights into careers in food science, research and nutrition at a series of one-day science fairs hosted by Teagasc, Smart Futures and SciFest.

Munster MHC play-off - Waterford 1-20 Tipperary 1-17: Waterford minor hurling boss Stephen Gough got the response he craved from his team at Walsh Park on Saturday. 

Laois 1-9 Dublin 2-20: Dublin advanced to the Walsh Cup semi-finals as they easily accounted for Laois in O’Moore Park yesterday.

Rupert Lamb put previous frustrating runs over hurdles behind him with a very smart display in the featured Download The Free Racing Post Mobile App Handicap Hurdle last night at Killarney last night.

Richard Bruton’s sweeping changes could face a constitutional challenge as some lawyers see themselves being sidelined, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Munster Schools Senior Cup: Castletroy 15 PBC 22

A young Australian man who tried to ram a garda car four times during a high-speed chase in a stolen truck has walked free from court with a suspended sentence.

Alan O’Mara has insisted Cavan will ignore jibes about their style and keep playing to their strengths as they aim to turn success at U21 level into trophies on the senior stage.

Three Roscommon County Hospital consultants wrote to the HSE in January 2011 warning that they could no longer stand over patient safety because of the hospital’s accident and emergency department.

Former Dynasty star Kate O’Mara has died at the age of 74, her agent said.

Former Dynasty star Kate O’Mara has died at the age of 74, her agent said.

Tyrone 1-15 Cavan 0-11

Tyrone 1-15 Cavan 0-11

Cavan 1-17 London 1-8

International research collaboration is vital to help scientists achieve global food security and combat climate change, say the hosts of yesterday’s Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture conference in University College Dublin.

London 0-11 Westmeath 1-15

“Lord help the world if everybody took to doing the right thing,” says Mrs Warren (Sorcha Cusack) in the Gate Theatre’s new production of George Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs Warren’s Profession.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice has named just four recognised forwards in his attack for tomorrow’s trip to Ballybofey.

Cavan 0-15 Meath 1-6

The departure of the senior vice president and head of global business operations with Trend Micro, Anthony O’Mara, is not an indication of the company’s plans to leave Ireland.

Adapted from the musical of the same name (which was itself adapted from Victor Hugo’s novel) and set in 19th century France, Les Miserables (12A) follows the fortunes of former convict Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) as he struggles to fulfil his destiny, despite being foiled by fate at every turn.

There is nothing like a dame and the seductress at the centre of Ruben Fleischer’s stylish crime thriller certainly sends temperatures soaring.

Blackrock 4-17 Blarney 1-09

Neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman followed and confronted the black teenager he is accused of murdering after a police dispatcher told him to back off, prosecutors in the US said.

George Zimmerman made his first courtroom appearance since he was charged with the fatal shooting more than six weeks ago of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, as a judge agreed to seal some records in the highly-charged case.

Prosecutors face steep hurdles to win a second-degree murder conviction against a neighbourhood watch volunteer charged in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, experts say.

DCU are going all out to regain the Sigerson Cup title they lost last year and it’s going to take a good team to stop them.

THE prospect of AIB calling in personal guarantees from former minister and Newstalk broadcaster Ivan Yates over the collapse of Celtic Bookmakers have been heightened.