Tuam Stars manager Tommy Carton is confident his side have shown that All-Ireland champions Corofin are beatable after they needed Gary Sice’s late heroics to force a replay of the Galway SFC final in a cracking game at Tuam Stadium.

A rare mea culpa. In pronouncing, before it started, the new Munster Hurling Championship the Best League in the World, it turns out, in hindsight, that I was grossly understating things. I was selling it short.

A proposal on the appointment of the next Cork County Board secretary will be circulated to clubs ahead of the next board meeting.

A 24-year-old man hoping to avoid detection for carrying drugs put two pieces of cannabis in his mouth and fled from gardaí with five deals of heroin in his underpants.

Kerry’s David Moran has been named the 2015 Munster GAA footballer of the year.

Rural Ireland is not being left behind in a new jobs boom, according to Finance Minister Michael Noonan.

In this game, at this time of year, it’s the question that constantly, inevitably, crops up in the car home.

More than half a billion euro was spent on hotel acquisitions in the first quarter of the year in the largest quarterly spree ever seen.

The first three months of this year saw the highest quarterly volume of hotel sales ever achieved in Ireland, according to figures released today.

Beale 0-11 Listowel Emmets 0-10: Beale ended a 25 year famine when they defeated champions Listowel Emmets in Saturday’s North Kerry SFC final at O’Rahilly Park, Ballylongford.

A PRIME sited and profitable Dublin city hotel developed by city bar and hotel owners the Dwyer brothers is up for sale, expected to find an overseas buyer, for as much as €35m.

Duagh 0-9 Beale 0-6

Lar Corbett last night gave strong signals that he will again play for Tipperary in 2013.

The receiver appointed to a golf resort in Co Cork has instructed auctioneers to further slash the asking price — to one-tenth of its original building cost.

AS developer Bernard McNamara’s misguided Burlington hotel purchase is put back for sale at a quarter the price he paid for it only five years ago, one of his other hotels is close to a sale via a receiver.

The landmark Burlington Hotel is for sale with a price tag of just a quarter of the €288m it sold for five years ago.

The clash of the champions in the Mid Tipperary senior hurling championship semi-final ended in stalemate at Templetuohy yesterday as county champions Drom-Inch, courtesy of a pointed free by Johnny Ryan with the last puck of extra-time, forced a 2-21 each draw with Loughmore-Castleiney, the divisional champions, in a thrilling contest.

Twins featured strongly at yesterday’s Woodie’s DIY National Junior & Under 23 Track & Field Championships in Tullamore, with the Monaghans and Nevilles sharing four medals between them.

Golfers might wish their playing handicaps would drop as fast, or at least as steadily, as the asking price on the Blarney Golf Resort in Cork.

Lloyds Banking Group has signed an agreement with BDL Ireland Management that may allow the company to manage hotels tied to the bank’s €1bn of Irish lodging loans, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Alert Ryan Tubridy, engage Ian Dempsey, trouble Ray D’arcy and dispatch Paul Collins from barracks; we may have another bandwagon to mobilise.

IN the decade since they last claimed the north Kerry senior football crown, Finuge have been repeatedly schooled in hard knocks.

WITH little enough to keep us going at all these days, weeks like the one Rory McIlroy and Conor Niland gave us mean all the more. But even in better times, the life-affirming rallies known as Irish sporting bandwagons have been good to us.

The British National Party began processing applications within hours of a court order banning recruitment of new members after its leader claimed to have amended the constitution.

The British National Party was today barred from taking new members after a judge ruled its constitution could discriminate against non-white people.

FORMER Kerry coach Páidí O Sé still stands over his controversial description six years ago of Kerry fans as the “roughest type of f***ing animals” – and believes current boss Jack O’Connor will find out as much if he fails to land the All-Ireland in September.

MUNSTER property firm Coolfadda Developments Ltd has gone into provisional liquidation, with debts of over e32 million, excluding assets and contracts.

LISTOWEL, famed for its writers and horse racing festivals, is aiming to achieve acclaim as a rugby stronghold.

Club senior hurling titles in Kilkenny, Clare, Meath, Kildare, Mayo, Wicklow and London were up for grabs this afternoon, with Ballyhale Shamrocks amongst those tasting victory as they captured their third successive Kilkenny crown.

THE “horrible attitude” of GAA people challenging disciplinary decisions to the absolute limit was strongly criticised by GAA President Nickey Brennan yesterday, saying he had no doubt that any players sent off this weekend or next weekend would follow the same route as the Kerry captain Paul Galvin.

A CELEBRITY hall of fame will be on show next week at Waterford Institute of Technology’s sports hall — and all for a worthy cause.

A 52-year-old Irish Army corporal who had sex with a 16-year-old school girl has been jailed for 18 months by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for unlawful carnal knowledge and possession of sexually explicit images of the girl.