THE Queen will be presented with one of her favourite types of jewellery in Cork today — a stunning hand-crafted silver brooch.

PAT GILROY hailed Dublin’s latest epic with old rivals Meath as the perfect way to sign off on pre-season duty.

Dublin 2-16 Meath 2-14

PORTLAOISE will be asked to identify the supporter who engaged referee Michael Duffy after Sunday’s All-Ireland club semi-final defeat.

NATIONAL referees chief Mick Curley has insisted that weekend refereeing mistakes which saw two Gaelic football matches being concluded when the ball was in play were simply a result of ‘human error’.

Bective Rangers have been busy in their plans to make the step up from AIB League Division Two, swooping to take a quartet of players from Greystones.

UCC DEMONS and DART Killester were always favourites to get through to the final of the Men’s SuperLeague National Cup but after exhaustive efforts getting there, they’ll tread warily as they resume NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague duties.

RONAN McGARRITY will be back in the starting five when Merry Monk Ballina travel to Neptune Stadium on Sunday to renew rivalry with Neptune in the NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague.

DAVE CREEDON died last Monday.He was 87.

WOMEN who want to look younger for longer can save a staggering 70% on a facelift — if they are prepared to travel for their surgery.

WITH seven faces missing from last season’s National Cup winning side, UCC Demons travel to Newcastle tomorrow to play the BBL champions, Newcastle Eagles, in a pre-season friendly that should leave coach Pat Price with a good idea of what lies ahead of him before the new season tips off on October 6.

US astronomers say they have found the best evidence to date for “darkmatter”, the mysterious invisible substance that is believed to account for the bulk of the universe’s mass.

GARDAÍ have begun a new search for the body of murdered Wexford woman Fiona Sinnott after new information came to light.

LIMERICK Lions could be playing UCC Demons in a top of the table clash at The Mardyke Arena on Monday afternoon - that’s if they beat Gleneagle Lakers at UL Arena tomorrow night.

Caroline O’Doherty reports on six women whose disappearances are still unsolved.

GARDAÍ have reopened their investigations into the ‘cold cases’ of six women who disappeared without trace in the 1990s.

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NEW arrival DJ Harrison could be the man to decide the destination of the ESB Cup next weekend when he lines out with Mardyke UCC Demons.

MARDYKE UCC Demons salvaged some southern Superleague pride with a 22-point blitz of Hibernian UCD Marian (97-75), on a weekend when cross-conferences bragging rights went north.