Athenry schoolboy David Kitt could become the youngest winner of the AIG Irish Amateur Close since Rory McIlroy in 2006 after cruising into the semi-finals in impressive style on a day of shocks at Galway Golf Club.

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Developer Greg Kavanagh has hit back at Johnny Ronan’s Chambury Investments in a row over a planned seven-storey apartment block in Dublin’s Docklands.

Fourteen-man Ballygunner encountered some turbulence against old rivals Lismore at Walsh Park yesterday, but a polished second-half showing of 2-14 secured their place in the last four of the Waterford SHC.

Orchard County 0-11 Trintiy College 0-12

Supermarket giant Aldi has taken on Tesco in a legal battle over in-store price comparisons.

Ministers have declared properties, shares and holiday homes as part of their annual declaration of interests for 2011.

Coláiste na nDéise cruised into the Dr Harty Cup final with victory in the all-Waterford affair which started bizarrely at Fraher Field, Dungarvan on Saturday.

The fixtures have fallen kindly for Donagh O’Donnell this weekend.

AN 11-point winning margin, embellished by a late 1-2 blast, was representative of the superiority De La Salle exerted over Midleton CBS in yesterday’s Dr Harty Cup quarter-final in Cappoquin.

An equestrian centre owner has brought High Court proceedings aimed at preventing the owners of Ashford Castle from blocking what he claims is a right of way through the estate allowing access to his property.

FOUR out of five senators are double-jobbing or have extra incomes on top of the €70,000-plus paid to them by the State for working just three days a week, 34 weeks a year in the Upper House.

Auditors who checked the annual accounts of Anglo Irish Bank should have spotted secret multi-million euro loans, Financial Regulator Patrick Neary said today.

The makers of Jameson Irish Whiskey claim that labelling used on bottles of a rival brand of whiskey distributed in Russia is an infringement of their trade mark, the High Court heard yesterday.