As Munster players plan their holidays and how to pass the time during the off-season, Niall Ronan is working out what life will be like as a former professional rugby player.

“Every game is an All-Ireland” is Kilkenny captain Brian Kennedy’s mantra as he leads the county into this evening’s Bord Gais Energy Leinster U21 final against Wexford at Wexford Park (7.30pm).

A string of top awards at last week’s Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show pointed to a revival of sport horse breeding in Munster.

CHAMPION trainer Willie Mullins enjoyed mixed luck with two odds-on favourites at Fairyhouse yesterday, landing the bumper with 8/15 shot Paul Kristian.

TWO of Ireland’s leading hopes for the FBD Insurance Rás, Brian Kenneally and Paul Griffin, have been out of sorts recently but expect to go to the line in Kilcullen for Sunday’s opening stage to Wexford town with all guns blazing.

FARMING organisations have objected to the decision by the Department of Agriculture to publish the name and home town of farmers who received payments under the Common Agricultural Policy.

A THREE-YEAR-OLD bay gelding won the young horse championship for a Limerick exhibitor at Cork Summer Show.

QUALITY is the gateway to winning and keeping consumer confidence, Glanbia chairman Michael Walsh declared in Kilkenny yesterday.

EARLY season showing form was maintained at the 63rd Belgooly Show where familiar winners from earlier competitions came out on top again.

Apt To Run picked up a valuable prize for fledgling trainer Michael Murphy with victory in the 27,000 euro Roadbridge Summer Hurdle at Limerick this evening.

The Republic of Ireland Women’s under-17 team came from behind today to beat Scotland 2-1 in their final game of the Amsterdam tournament.

A LIMERICK farmer, who combines cattle breeding and milk production with managing his Glebe Properties house building business, continued a successful year for his dairy cattle at Iverk Show in Co Kilkenny last week.

PILTOWN, fourth behind the subsequently disqualified Golden Future at Tramore, reversed placings with that rival in the Equine Warehouse three-year-old Maiden Hurle at Clonmel last evening.

THE frustrating Aracena, placed in all four of her starts, is napped to get off the mark in the Anglo Irish Bank Maiden at the first stage of the Tramore Festival this evening.

PAT SMULLEN enjoyed his trip to Ballinrobe last night, notching a double on Piltown and Reside.

RICHARD McLERNON, a nephew of one of the best National Hunt riders this country has ever produced, Tommy Carmody, looks a young man with a bright future.

WEXFORD-bred horses won the ridden hunter championship and the reserve honours for a Co Down exhibitor at last Sunday’s Cork Summer Show.

A CLASSY three year old took the young horse championship at Midleton Show for the Tinahely, Co Wicklow, exhibitor, Derry Rothwell.

CORK Summer Show revived memories of its glory days last weekend, reverting to a two-day event, and bringing back cattle and sheep classes after an absence of a couple of years.