A man who beat his new girlfriend's baby with a garden chair in Wales has been found guilty of murder.

At a recent public meeting held in Ballinacurra, Midleton, Co. Cork a question was raised regarding the waste of money on art sculptures in the town of Midleton and surrounding areas. 

One of the world’s rarest geese has successfully hatched in a nature park here, having previously failed because of harsh weather.

For success, Irish rugby captain Niamh Briggs has two simple rules.

Limerick 3-09 UCC 4-16: Life after John Galvin got off to an uncomfortable start for Limerick in this low-key McGrath Cup quarter-final in Mick Neville Park in Rathkeale.

Two cousins who have swum the length of the Shannon and cycled through every county in Ireland are on course to set an incredible triathlon endurance record.

Day two of the Ballabuidhe festival featured the Murphys/Western Beverages Grand Prix final, with six runners who qualified from Sunday’s heats.

CORK PREMIER IFC FINAL:

A town council is set to defy a Government request to overturn a rezoning decision.

A local authority has defied the Government’s guidelines and refused to dezone a flood plain earmarked for development.

WEARERS of luxury mink coats once saw themselves at the height of fashion, but mink has now become a pest and a plague on other wildlife.

1. Limerick’s inability to turn dominance and chances into scores

IF Conor Counihan wanted a rigorous test to discover where his Cork team stand ahead of the big August days in Croke Park, he got it in the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday night.

IN a summer of novelty in the All-Ireland SFC, tomorrow represents the start of a two-week period where there are prospects of seismic results in all four provincial finals.

FOR the second successive year, Sean Buckley dons the captain’s armband on Munster senior football final day.

Limerick 1-16 Waterford 1-14

AFTER prolonged absences, Alan Quirke, Anthony Lynch, Graham Canty, Donnacha O’Connor, Kevin McMahon and Colm O’Neill return to the Cork team for Sunday’s final game in the preliminary rounds of the Allianz NFL against Mayo at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

SEAN CAVANAGH will return to the Tyrone starting line-up for the first time since last August’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Kildare for tomorrow night’s crunch NFL Division 1 showdown against Kerry in Healy Park, Omagh.

FOUR weeks on and that searing pain is struggling to go away. Limerick football has endured plenty of trauma during their 103-year search for a Munster title and the most recent provincial final setback hurt as much as anything that went before.

TYRONE boss Mickey Harte has drafted Pascal McConnell into his starting line-up for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Kildare.

LIMERICK’S football championship record against Cork has been peppered with defeats in recent seasons.

THE prevailing view about the weekend’s Munster championship semi-finals is that the Fitzgerald Stadium clash of Kerry and Cork will decide the destination of the title.

Longford 0-10 Tipperary 0-9

MIKE REIDY provided the inspiration as Dromcollogher/Broadford won their fourth Limerick County SFC title in eight years in emphatic style at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

Limerick 2-6 Longford 3-5

A GIFTED Killarney teenager could win a leading role in a London West End production of Oliver.

AT one time, mink coats were fashionable among stylish folk, but the animal that provided them has now become a pest in parts of Ireland.

A POSTMISTRESS at Lusk Post Office who was working on the morning of an armed raid told Dublin City Coroner’s Court yesterday that she feared for her life when she realised what was happening.

Kildare host lowly Sligo in Division 1B in Newbridge today, and the home side are in with a long shot of making the National Football League semi-final line-up.

Limerick dual player Stephen Lucey is set for his first league start of the season in Sunday's crucial National Football League clash against Armagh at Crossmaglen.

NICHOLAS MURPHY, Anthony Lynch and Derek Kavanagh will undergo fitness tests before Cork finalise their team to meet Donegal in the Allianz National Football League at Ballybofey on Sunday.

Limerick 1-13 Waterford 0-10

Limerick 0-10 Galway 0-8

A 35-year-old Dublin man has been found not guilty of murder, but guilty of the manslaughter of a former All Ireland boxing champion turned drug-dealer and addict.

A former All-Ireland boxing champion died "as a result of a single stab wound to the right side of the abdomen", the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A jury was today shown interview videos of a suspect crying, shaking and apologising on the day he was arrested for murder in late 2002.

A young Dublin woman told a murder trial today that the deceased had threatened to rape her, her niece and her mother and admitted she said she was not sorry he was dead.

Limerick 2-10 Cork Institute of Technology 1-3