It is 40 years this weekend since Galway returned to hurling’s high altar, their 1975 All-Ireland final appearance bringing to an end the county’s 17-year wait for a September sojourn to Jones Road.

Motorsport: A new season of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship is marked by a very competitive entry for tomorrow’s Donegal Forest Rally in Pettigoe.

Gardaí are investigating an incident on the M7 Limerick to Dublin motorway in which well-known artist John Shinnors was injured in a collision with a van driven by an off-duty garda.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan grabbed some ‘art therapy’ last night away from the trials and tribulations of government life when he officially opened a unique exhibition in his native Limerick.

Limerick City Gallery of Art launches its new enhanced exhibition spaces this evening, writes Tina O’Sullivan

THE final round of this season’s Dunlop National Rally Championship, the Fastnet Rally, has a new base and headquarters at the Westlodge Hotel in Bantry.

Irish duo Keith Cronin and Greg Shinnors (Mitsubishi) have finished second overall in the Isle of Man International Rally today.

Essentially, today's Carrick on Suir based Suirway Forklifts Raven's Rock Rally, the fifth round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship, was a test for Keith Cronin ahead of his next outing in the British Rally Championship.

A JUDGE, shocked by horrific images of livestock cruelty, was yesterday asked to impose a lifetime ban on a farmer from herding animals.

AN ISPCA inspector prevented youths tossing two kittens into a Hallowe’en bonfire.

St Colman’s 2-13 St Flannan’s 0-8