A High Court judge will tomorrow morning hand down judgement in the case of terminally ill Ruth Morrissey who has sued the HSE and two US laboratories over the alleged misreading of her CervicalCheck smear slides.

The High Court judge hearing the action by terminally ill Ruth Morrissey against the HSE and two US laboratories over the alleged misreading of her CervicalCheck smear slides hopes to give his judgement in the test case in early May.

Two people who screened the now terminally ill Ruth Morrissey’s smear test for the MedLab laboratory in 2012 which came back as negative have been withdrawn from the witness list in the long-running case.

Asked if the Vicky Phelan case never happened, when would Ruth Morrissey have found out about the audit reviews on her smear slides, Cervical Check programmer manager John Gleeson said: "If she had chosen to ask us".

There was "a missed opportunity" to treat Ruth Morrissey when "on balance" pre cancer was present in 2012 a leading expert has told the High Court.

Anthony Nash knows there have been questions and conspiracy theories.

Anthony Nash knows there have been questions and conspiracy theories.

UFC fighter Conor McGregor and tech boy-wonders the Collison brothers are some of the Irish lauded by Forbes in its prestigious “30 Under 30 Europe” list of young people to watch.

Latest: Paul Morrissey, 51 years, missing from Longford Town has been located safe and well.

The Bram Stoker Festival celebrates the Dublin-born author of Dracula. This year, horror writer and film critic, Kim Newman, has curated a series of films for the festival.

JOHN TERRY yesterday looked certain to lead out Chelsea in their London derby against Arsenal after Andre Villas-Boas insisted he had no concerns about his captain’s state of mind.

THERE was an “oh my god” moment for Tipperary town woman, Yvonne Ellard, when she won the top fashion prize at the Blossom Hill Ladies’ Day at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show yesterday.

LOOKS like it was a cracker, doesn’t it, 36 scores in a 60-minute game between two of the premier clubs in the game over the past several years?

THOSE hurling pundits out there who see Sunday’s Munster Club SHC final at Semple Stadium between Newtownshandrum and Ballygunner as a bit of a foregone conclusion baffles the bejaysus out of Newtown manager Phil Noonan.

NEWTOWNSHANDRUM put their Evening Echo Cork Co SHC title on the line against Imokilly at Pairc Ui Chaoimh tomorrow (5pm) in the second part of an Evening Echo SHC quarter-final double header that also features St Catherine’s and Sarsfield’s (3.30 pm).

WITH their Munster SHC semi-final game with Clare just three weeks away (May 28), team coach John Allen will be keeping his fingers crossed that none of his players pick up an injury this weekend as the county championships kick-off in earnest.

There are four newcomers on the Cork senior hurling squad for the Munster championship opener with Clare on May 28.

THERE are four O'Connor brothers, not two, in the Newtownshandrum squad that faces Portumna in what promises to be a titanic All-Ireland club senior hurling final this Friday.

The goalkeepers will be key to tomorrow's club semi-final, says Diarmuid O'Flynn.

CORK have omitted seven members of last year's All-Ireland-winning panel for the upcoming Allianz Hurling League campaign.

THE four clubs remaining in the All-Ireland Club senior hurling championship are back in training and counting down to their semi-finals next month.

THE machines were silent in the O’Connor Hurley Manufacturing Plant in Newtownshandrum yesterday morning, after the club’s exciting Munster club hurling win in Thurles on Sunday, the saws, planers, sanding machines lying idle, but the planning goes on.

Newtownshandrum 0-15 Cloyne 0-9

Cork's Paul Fitzgerald became an even hotter favourite to win this week's Danone Junior Tennis Championship of Ireland at the Fitzwilliam club when the second seed, Castleknock's James McGee, withdrew.

CORK go in search of the first leg of a possible double when they take on Tipperary in the All-Ireland Vocational SHC final at Thurles tomorrow (1.45 p.m.).

Limerick travel to face Wexford today in Division 1B of the National Hurling League, hoping for more league points after picking up their first win of the campaign last weekend.

Cork manager John Allen will rest most of his All-Ireland-winning team for Sunday's National Hurling League clash with northerners Down.

UNDER 21 ace, Fintan Gould has been handed the full forward slot on the Cork team for Sunday’s crucial National Football League tie with Offaly in Tullamore.

Brian Corcoran returns to the Cork line-up for his first league start as the All-Ireland champions host Antrim in the National Hurling League on Saturday at Páirc Ui Rinn.

THE Limerick County Board last night appointed an interim manager following the departure of Padjoe Whelahan.

Clare 1-17 Cork 1-16

Athenry 2-22 Cork 4-15

THE Cork senior hurlers overcame an Auckland selection in a challenge game at Seddon Fields, Meola Road, Pt Chevalier in New Zealand on Monday. The scoreline was Cork 3-9, Auckland 2-8.

Thurles CBS 2-15 Coláiste Chríost Rí 1-2

Newtownshandrum 3-12 Erin's Own 0-14

CORK, Munster and All-Ireland Club hurling champions Newtownshandrum are in real danger of being stripped of their titles tonight as the face Erin’s Own in round three of the Permanent tsb county championship at Pairc Uí Chaoimh (7.30pm).

Newtownshandrum 5-10 Delanys 0-13

Clare 2-20 Cork 0-18

THERE is growing concern in Clare that outstanding full-back Brian Lohan could miss the opening round of the Munster championship against Waterford on May 16.

Dunloy 1-6 Newtownshandrum 0-17

THOUGH only the middle of February, tomorrow’s meeting of O’Loughlin Gaels and Newtownshandrum, Leinster champions against Munster’s best is whetting the appetite of hurling folk just about anywhere.