Mayfield (Cork) 1-14 Calry St Joseph’s (Sligo) 1-7: Mayfield are one step away from AIB All-Ireland Club Junior Hurling Championship glory after this workmanlike victory over dogged Calry St Joseph’s.

The current political impasse offers us an opportunity to try a fresh new partnership approach to doing politics, writes Denis Naughten

A university which was fined €80,000 for breaches of health and safety legislation after an employee was crushed to death by a cherrypicker has overhauled its policies and introduced new equipment and training.

I have seen a number of people express extreme dismay over the past week about the abysmally low turn-out in the Dublin South West by-election last weekend.

On the immediate appointment of the new Irish minister for the diaspora, I wrote to Jimmy Deenihan TD asking him what he would be doing with the recommendation of the Constitutional Convention on extending votes to Irish citizens abroad in future presidential elections?

Hundreds of doctors protested outside the Dáil yesterday over cutbacks that have closed general practices and forced newly qualified GPs to go abroad to work.

Nearly all of the politicians involved in the fiasco around the membership of the banking inquiry committee have done their profession a disservice and have further diminished our parliament in the eyes of a weary, increasingly cynical citizenship.

Cardiff 0 Crystal Palace 3

Theatre is thriving in Cork: SHOW is a festival of original work and continues at the Triskel Arts Centre until Sunday.

Adrigole 0-20 Mayfield 1-17 (aet)

The troika has decided we can’t hold power to account, and they are right, says Gerard Howlin.

Silvermines (Tipperary) 1-15 Ruan (Clare) 0-6

Lawyers for the Irish Greyhound Board warned it that a controversial land contract should delete contractors’ deals as they were inappropriate for a public body.

Billy Connolly famously surmised, “Marriage is a wonderful invention. Then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.”

Taking 50% of the value of the property of a farmer who spends more than 10 years in a nursing home is an injustice which needs to be reviewed, says the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association.

Food supply-chain jobs will be lost due to supermarket chains acting to bypass the wholesale sector, Retail Excellence Ireland chief executive David Fitzsimons has warned.

THE father of a two-year-old boy killed in a house fire in Cork over the weekend is expected to be given temporary release from prison to attend his son’s funeral.

FARMERS should not face further cuts unless the Croke Park agreement with the public service unions is reversed, according to the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association.

FLYING over Cork and beyond for the past 40 years, private pilot Pat Punch has seen not only the landscape beneath him change dramatically but the aviation industry too.

BEEF farmers should exercise caution before responding to calls to expand their output by 40% without any evidence of sustainable prices, the Irish Cattle and Sheep Association (ICSA) warned.

MORE THAN 5,000 census enumerators from all walks of life will begin distributing almost two million Census 2011 forms today.

LESS than ten days ago Micheál Martin said he wanted to leave Punch and Judy politics behind.

Punchestowns bids to outline his Cheltenham Festival credentials when he faces a crucial test in today’s Argento Chase at the Prestbury Park track.

Henry de Bromhead is keeping options open for Sizing Europe, should his star novice chaser bid to follow up his Arkle Trophy success at the Punchestown Festival later this month.

Check out our tips from today’s horse races across the UK.

A CAMPAIGN launched in Britain by former Beatle Paul McCartney to go vegetarian once a week to help combat global warming has been dismissed as nonsense by a farm leader in Ireland.

EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy called for an end to “Punch and Judy” politics yesterday but then immediately took a whack at former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

IRELAND is more likely to be home to the “Pope’s pensioners” rather than the “Pope’s children” within a few decades, according to new figures which show that people can expect to live 7-10 years more on average.

IN TIME the big story of last year may not be the general election and Bertie Ahern’s hat trick of general election victories, but the questions that would not go away about his finances, or the Punch and Judy routine between his government and the Mahon Tribunal.

FANS of classic novel Riddley Walker are expected to descend on Waterford in the near future for a rare stage production of the futuristic work.

IT was frustrating that agriculture was left out of the two pre-election debates on RTÉ this week, Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association general secretary Eddie Punch said yesterday.

SOME householders are ignoring the calls of Census staff calling to drop off forms for the big night next weekend.

THE body of a Polish national who died in a house fire was identified by his dental records, an inquest in Limerick heard.

CENSUS staff will have to deal with security gates and intercoms to deliver at least 150,000 of their forms to Irish homes over the next three weeks.

FARMERS have rejected a call by the Catholic Church in Ireland to eliminate “all trade distorting farm subsidies” dismissing the suggestion as naïve and preposterous.