Daily Mass-going paedophile school principal Patrick Barry has been released from prison back into the community in west Clare after serving only 18 months in jail.

History will be made on Sunday when the first final of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship will be played in Páirc Uí Rinn – 40 years after the decider was played at the UCC Grounds in the Mardyke.

The ‘Shark’ Hanlon-trained Luska Lad rolled back the years by destroying the opposition in the four-mile open at the opening session of the Kinsale point-to-point festival at a wet Farrangalway on Saturday evening.

Five of the 11 victims of paedophile principal Patrick Barry yesterday hit out at the “wrong and unjust” court decision to reduce his six-year jail term to two years.

A man arrested at a Republican Sinn Féin commemoration who went on to assault a detective garda and “took a hold” of his pistol has lost an appeal against conviction.

With Netflix’s purchase of ‘Love/Hate’ for European audiences further cementing the success of Nidge and the gang, Ed Power looks back at the other great characters of Irish television.

Cork defender Brian Murphy will miss the Munster SHC final against Limerick after sustaining a serious shoulder injury in a county senior hurling championship game yesterday.

Bride Rovers 1-14 Ballinhassig 0-11

Colman Sweeney received the ideal boost ahead of partnering Salsify in the Cheltenham Foxhunters in a little under two weeks time by steering Garrett Ahern’s newcomer Now Ben to a hugely-impressive success in the first division of the five-year-old geldings’ maiden at yesterday’s West Waterford Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Lismore.

Soap matriarch Biddy White Lennon has revealed how she believes television farming dramas, The Riordans and Glenroe, played a role in educating Catholic Ireland on contraception and divorce.

One of the chief backers of the proposed Global Pharmaceutical Centre of Excellence (GPCE) planned for Tralee has been placed into liquidation.

ORGANIC cattle farmers achieve a 30% higher farm family income per hectare versus conventional methods, according to the latest Teagasc research.

A WOMAN working for years at a supermarket in Cork has been convicted of carrying out a series of thefts amounting to over €2,000 in a three-week period.

BRIDE ROVERS’ remarkable resilience in championship hurling surfaced again in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday night.

A BUSY National Organic Week has left the sector buzzing. Plenty of well attended events, some new research, promising policy developments and upcoming opportunities have emerged.

FARMERS were urged by Minister of State Ciarán Cuffe yesterday to seize the opportunities that exist in the organic sector.

THE Teagasc organic demonstration farm walks are in full swing, with seven still to come, covering a range of enterprises across the country.

UCC 0-19 Limerick 2-9

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football. You may agree with him or then again you may not. This week France in the qualiers and away in the second let; Pool react with dignity; Throwing toys out of the pram; Pool undone by hot air; Hiddink available for Anfield; Best Premiership for years; Utd v Liverpool difficult to call; Bruce next Utd manager; Fulham victims of their own success; Lamps lack of goals; Wenger was right about obscenities; Defoe’s should have seen red.

UCC 0-16 GMIT 3-5

IT rained goals on Sarsfields at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday and it nearly cost them big time.

Sarsfields 3-17 Midleton 1-5

A LATE Robert O’Mahony point earned St Finbarr’s a 0-12 to 1-9 draw in an entertaining all city Evening Echo Cork Co Premier IFC final against St.Vincent’s under lights at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday, with the replay pencilled in as the curtain raiser to the senior final on October 5.

DOUGLAS turned on the style at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday, a magical second-half display leaving fancied Ballymartle for dead, setting up a mouth-watering Cork Co Premier IHC semi-final date with Blarney.

Despite only scoring two points in the second half, reigning Fitzgibbon Cup champions Limerick IT held out to book a place in their fourth final in five years this afternoon.

As the search for missing aviator Steve Fossett enters its sixth full day concern is growing as the unprecedented effort drags on with no clue about his possible location.

A CRITICALLY ill woman died after her head and neck became trapped under a hospital bed safety rail, an inquest has heard.

IT’S time to seriously consider converting to organic farming, according to Teagasc.

If Cork complete the fabled three-in-a-row on Sunday, they will have achieved it with only 17 starters this season. But, as Diarmuid O’Flynn discovered, when you have exceptional players, they can take you a long way.

IT is always an unenviable and invidious exercise to compare teams and players of different eras.

St Colman’s, Fermoy 2-15 North Monastery 0-6

THE smoking ban will have “no material effect” on drink sales, the owners of Guinness said yesterday.

THE price of Guinness draught beers is being topped up with a six cent on the pint increase from March 1.

IRELAND faces the prospect of a blighted generation if something is not done to tackle the country’s chronic alcohol problem, the Eastern Regional Health Authority (EHRA) warned yesterday.

IRISH people spend more on drink than any other country in the world and are also among the heaviest smokers and sufferers of heart attacks.

CARLSBERG doesn’t give evidence to Dáil committees ... but if they did, it would probably be the best evidence in the world.

ALCOHOL advertising is having a “damaging impact” on young people and should be restricted, a children’s group warned yesterday.

Former GAA president Dr Mick Loftus has emerged as a leader in the campaign to ban alcohol companies from sponsoring football and hurling championships.

ALCOPOPS are destructive drinks that should be banned, an addiction counsellor said yesterday.

A report on Irish farming has revealed that the latest bad weather has killed off one fifth of Ireland’s crop of malting barley - an essential ingredient in the make up of stout.