Your correspondent John Tierney is to be complimented for his blood curdling letter on cub hunting and must be in line for the Bram Stoker Award which is granted annually by the Horror Writers Association. However, his literary effort would be more appropriate for the fiction page rather than the letters page.

RICHARD POWER (Letters, June 22) states that “the greatest problems facing this country are economic”. He then suggests that the best person to deal with this economic problem is Pat Cox.

AT the time of our last presidential election in 1997, the greatest problem facing this country was the very uncertain and fragile peace which ensued from the Northern troubles and the Good Friday agreement.

The Kilkenny team to face Cork in Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final shows two changes from the side selected to play Galway in the Leinster final.

AS a member of the Green party I wish to congratulate our newest senator, Mark Deary from Louth, on his recent appointment to the Seanad.

Kilkenny welcome back James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick and T.J. Reid from the All Ireland winning Ballyhale Shamrocks side in time for this weekend's clash with Galway.

THE country’s 200-year-old heritage of rural shows must be preserved and supported, it was stressed yesterday.

Albertas Run leapt to the head of the betting for the Royal & SunAlliance Chase by flattening some lofty reputations at Ascot.

Monet's Garden exorcised the demons that haunted him at Kempton over Christmas as he landed his first Grade One success in the Commercial First Ascot Chase at the Berkshire track.

DARREN O’SULLIVAN, the 20-year-old whiz kid from Glenbeigh, will make his provincial senior championship debut when Kerry take on Tipperary in the Bank of Ireland Munster SFC semi-final at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney on Sunday.

THE Galway hurling management have no intention at this stage of calling teenage prodigy Joe Canning into their squad, despite the perceived benefit to the team’s coring potential.

A 31-year-old Dublin man accused of murder today walked free after his trial collapsed in dramatic fashion.

THE Catholic Church might appear to be facing its gravest and most desperate hour. Not so.

THE outgoing chief executive of Paddy Power plc, John O’Reilly, received a pay rise of almost 90% last year, bringing his 2004 pay package to €883,000, up from €466,000.

FORMER star forward Joe McKenna was last night elected interim manager of the Limerick senior hurling team by his fellow selectors.

REGULAR defender Mark Foley is named at full-forward on the Limerick team to meet Cork in Sunday’s Allianz NHL tie at Páirc Uí Rinn.

Michael Ellard and Brendan Larkin

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A TWO-YEAR-OLD grey filly won the Aughinish Limerick Lady national championship for a Co Galway exhibitor at the Limerick Show over the weekend.

Beara Community School 2-13