The Patrician Academy Mallow have claimed their first All-Ireland senior football title seeing off St Pauls Secondary School Oughterard in a thrilling final in Limerick today.

I WAS never much of a one for All-Ireland night celebrations. The night of the three-in-a-row Nancy and I hired a rowing boat for the pond in Stephen’s Green. I’m a bit like Connell that way, but, more to the point, a lot like myself.

The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland Sean Brady apologised today over revelations that he failed to alert gardaí about the abuse of two children by notorious paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.

A sleepless night nursing a bruised hip was not enough to prevent Philip Robinson returning to Sandown to win the betinternet.com Solario Stakes aboard Sri Putra.

PATRICIAN Academy, Mallow and Intermediate School, Killorglin, scored impressive wins in the Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup (Round One) yesterday.