Pat Sullivan’s Waterford secured a sensational six-point victory over reigning TG4 Munster and All-Ireland ladies senior football champions Cork.

Conor Barry’s Cavan set up a TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football quarter-final clash with champions Cork on August 20, but they had to work hard for it against Laois today.

New Offaly manager Eamonn Kelly got off to a perfect start this afternoon when his Faithful County charges easily accounted for DIT.

Laois’s Colm Begley believes Dublin would find life more difficult in the Leinster championship away from Croke Park.

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Laois u21s 2-10 Dublin u21s 2-21: When the dust settles on the 2015 season, Dessie Farrell and his Dublin U21 footballers might well look back on this one as the one that crowned them.

RSA Insurance said it will fight a constructive dismissal case filed by the former head of its Irish unit, who stepped down more than a year ago amid an accounting scandal.

Laois footballer Peter O’Leary has called time on his inter-county career.

A dispute over whether bankrupt developer Sean Dunne validly transferred various property assets to his wife Gayle, including a hotel in South Africa, has come before the Commercial Court.

An action over a €23m deficit in the pension scheme of State forestry body Coillte Teoranta, affecting 2,000 people, has been settled at the commercial court on undisclosed terms.

Laois 1-19 Fermanagh 2-15

New York captain Brendan Quigley says talk of removing the team from the Connacht championship makes no sense in light of the strong preparations they are putting into Sunday’s provincial opener with Mayo.

Dublin 3-10 Galway 3-10

An elderly woman who was the victim of a brutal medical procedure more than 60 years ago has said she was treated worse than an animal.

Longford 0-6 Laois 0-9, Pearse Park

Schools should incorporate the dangers of so-called sexting into their education programmes and codes of conduct, an expert on online sexual exploitation has said.

A petition to wind up retail giant Dunnes Stores has been withdrawn at the Commercial Court after the company paid €21.6m owed for a shopping centre development in Kilkenny.

Young people need to be made aware of the legal consequences of cyberbullying, as well as overcoming a culture of not reporting such incidents to gardaí, according to one of the country’s leading educational psychologists.

Children’s groups and organisations for parents have seen a rise in numbers calling with concerns about cyberbullying.

A secret recording of a meeting in Ukraine attended by Seán Quinn Jr, his cousin Peter, and some Ukranians, showed a “torrid row” about money, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

Seán Quinn Jr is to be allowed out of jail to attend his Supreme Court appeal next Tuesday and Wednesday against imprisonment for contempt of court orders.

Sean Quinn Junior is to be allowed out of jail to attend his Supreme Court appeal next Tuesday and Wednesday against imprisonment for contempt of court orders.

Dublin Airport Authority is to ask the High Court next Friday to restrain threatened industrial action by SIPTU that would effectively close down Dublin, Shannon and Cork airports.

Dublin 1-12 Laois 0-12

Former Dublin All-Star Shane Ryan has backed his county to progress against Laois at the weekend.

Laois head to Croke Park next weekend for their clash with Dublin full of confidence and with a real pep in their step – I was going to say “momentum” – but it has now officially become the most overused word in the GAA lexicon during the qualifiers.

Laois 1-15 Meath 1-12

After the drubbing their seniors took on Sunday, Laois showed there is plenty of spirit left in the county with a wonderful win over Dublin in the Bord Gais Energy Leinster U21 HC quarter-final last night.

Laois 0-19 Wexford 5-12

The parents of a 10-year-old boy who was forced to leave school because of bullying have set up a Facebook group as a support for other families to come forward and share their stories.

Kerry 0-20 Laois 1-13

Anglo Irish Bank unlawfully tried to prop up its share price by “shovelling” about €2.34bn loans into companies in the Quinn Group after learning in Sept 2007 of a “towering” Quinn shareholding in Anglo that could collapse the bank.

Oulart-the Ballagh survived a second half scare from Laois champions Clough/Ballacolla to register a 3-12 to 2-11 semi-final win in the AIB Leinster Club Senior Hurling Championship.

BUSINESSMAN Sean Quinn and his family may challenge the jurisdiction of the courts to hear proceedings by Anglo Irish Bank aimed at preventing the family transferring assets, over which the bank holds security, from Swedish companies which hold the family’s properties in several countries.

THE Commercial Court has reserved judgment on the action by businessman Philip Lynch and his family aimed at preventing Allied Irish Banks pursuing them for repayment of a €25 million loan to buy development lands in Waterford.

THE long-running action by businessman Philip Lynch and his family aimed at preventing AIB pursuing them for repayment of a €25 million development loan is expected to conclude at the Commercial Court today.

Donegal 2-11 Laois 0-16

LAOIS have been one of the surprise packages of this year’s league campaign. Since 2004, they’ve struggled to live up to the mantle heir apparent to the Leinster thrown but that’s one of the reasons manager Justin McNulty agreed to become their manager.

A SOLICITOR has denied he “mixed up” the concepts of security and recourse in an email stating Allied Irish Bank “no longer require any legal recourse” against businessman Philip Lynch, developer Gerry Conlan “and the Lynch children” for a €25 million loan to buy development lands in Waterford.

Laois 0-11 Tyrone 1-12

LIMERICK’S unblemished record in their new environs of Division 2 of the Allianz NHL was maintained at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday and they remain on course for the lucrative rewards of promotion and a final placing.

CONOR COUNIHAN has named an unchanged side from the team that beat Monaghan a fortnight ago for Cork’s Allianz NFL Division 1 game tomorrow night against Down.