The Junior B Football game scheduled for the first day of the North American Finals at the end of this month stands out: Cayman Islands v Raleigh (North Carolina).

Christy Ring made his championship debut for the Cork senior hurlers in 1940. They were dark days for the county.

Doctors from four private hospitals in Cork, Kerry and Waterford held a "crisis meeting" in Cork yesterday over the threat to private practice from soaring medical indemnity insurance costs.

Irish Paralympic cyclist Peter Ryan has endured more than most in his young life but the 23-year-old from Upperchurch in Tipperary believes that losing his sight in the space of a few months isn’t going to halt a promising sporting career.

Men are being urged to be checked for prostate cancer.

Close to 13,000 prostate cancer tests carried out on patients who attended Mayo General Hospital have to be reviewed after it emerged the test kits were faulty.

A test kit used as an aid in detecting prostate cancer at a Dublin hospital has been withdrawn after it emerged it was producing results that may have led to a substantial number of unnecessary biopsies.

A lack of standardisation among PSA tests for prostate cancer is worrying medics and saw a patient at Connolly Hospital receive an artificially elevated reading.

The biggest youth GAA tournament outside of Ireland is, on the face of it, an odd place to find a business forum.

Maybe this New York soccer friendly will be no more than a money-spinning afterthought tacked onto a busy end-of-season schedule.

So many accomplished players have passed through the Donegal Boston ranks during the club’s first 25 years that the summer of a young Jim McGuinness doesn’t stand out as much as you’d think.

AHANE, the 19-times champions, will play Na Piarsaigh in the October 2 Limerick SHC final after last night’s 3-13 to 1-12 semi-final replay win over Emmets at the Gaelic Grounds.

PETER KEOGH, Shane Somers and Peter Ryan have established a new chartered accountancy practice in Limerick.

ONE in four top Irish firms believes it is difficult to meet ethical and compliance demands without compromising financial objectives, a survey has found.

THE High Court was yesterday asked to decide whether it has the power to prevent a computer alleged to contain child pornography to be used in an Oireachtas inquiry into Judge Brian Curtin.

Jobs will continue to be created in call centres in the UK even though firms are transferring work to overseas countries including India, a new report predicted today.

IRISH Olympic chiefs are confident that Athens will host a safe and successful Olympic Games in August.

A top United Nations inspector will travel to Northern Ireland later this year to probe allegations that the Army operated a shoot-to-kill policy towards IRA men, it was claimed tonight.

United Nations inspectors were today urged to visit Northern Ireland in a new bid to prove allegations that the Army operated a shoot-to-kill policy during two ambushes on IRA men.

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TWO men, one from Dublin and the other from Limerick, appeared in different courts yesterday on charges of possessing child pornography.

Lions full-back Matt Perry appears to be winning his fitness race for Saturday’s second Test against Australia in Melbourne.

Graham Henry can expect an Australian Rugby Union apology following a beer-spraying incident after the Lions’ tour opener against Western Australia in Perth.

Australia have announced a 24-man Australia A squad to play the Lions in the Bundaberg Rum Rugby Series match at Gosford on June 19.