Lansdowne 18 Cork Constitution 24

Cork Constitution 10 Young Munster 16

Clontarf’s home clash with Lansdowne has been rightly billed as the Ulster Bank League match of the day but there are several other ties with good claims for that tag.

Such is the interest in the Ulster Bank League derby between Dolphin and Cork Constitution tonight, the IRFU are streaming the game live for the first time.

Carlsberg might not like it but pensioners yesterday rewrote the drinks’ giant’s catchy slogan to reflect their anger at the Government: “Ireland. Probably the most corrupt little country in the world.”

Old Belvedere 3 Cork Constitution 3

In the end, he departed without fuss. Brian Walsh was never afraid to raise his head above the parapet during his time as Cork Constitution head coach, but when it came to stepping away, it happened so quietly many didn’t realise until they noticed his absence from the sideline in the club’s opening Ulster Bank League fixtures.

Cork Constitution 33 Lansdowne 16

With his Crescent Comprehensive side a bundle of nervous energy in the dressing room before their first Munster Senior Schoolboys Cup final appearance in 20 years, captain Kelvin Leahy knew how to harness it.

In extracts from his new book, Bill O’Herlihy recalls his childhood in Cork, an Evening Echo secret, and why he has an eternal soft spot for both Dunphy and Giles

BARRACK BIMBO (Bexhill Eoin-Barrack Court), owned in Tournafulla, Co Limerick by young Shane Curtin, served notice to all opponents in the Greyhound and Pet World Oaks next month she is ready, willing and well able to challengeall-comers.

At 7.25am the alarm went off, before 7.30 he was out in the kennel, checking on Glanmore Susan; she was fine, even better than fine – “Hopping off the ground!”

ROCKWELL eased their way into the semi-final of the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup with a deserved if hard-fought victory over gritty Ard Scoil Rís at Clanwilliam yesterday.

ONE of the privileges of being in the Munster Academy is the opportunity to train with the senior squad. On Wednesday, for example, Dave Foley got a glimpse of what may lie in store for him should he progress to the professional ranks: an open training session at Thomond Park where kids, grown men and grannies flocked to the cathedral of Munster rugby to watch the slickest machine in European rugby go through their paces. Gods in their own backyard.

ONE hundred years after lifting the inaugural Munster Schools Senior Cup, Christian Brothers College, Cork could bring perfect symmetry to the record books if they prevail in tomorrow’s final, sponsored by Avonmore Milk, at Musgrave Park (3pm).

NO SHORTAGE of topics this week, is there?

THE fish shop owner who discovered the frozen corpse of a man who went missing five years ago has said it wasn’t his job to clean the large freezer where the gruesome find was made.

BUSINESSMAN Tom Mulcahy, the chairman-designate of the Dublin Transport Authority (DTA), could get paid up to €74,000 for 62 days’ work.

By expressing admiration for interviewers who listen and develop conversations, Bill O’Herlihy might have been talking about himself. The TV Personality of the Year spoke to Michael Moynihan.

FORMER AIB chief executive Tom Mulcahy has taken a stake in the financial spread betting firm Delta Index.

AIB last night denied it acted inappropriately in issuing a statement on May 27 2004 stating several previous key executives had tax issues to be resolved.

A man with aviation fuel running through his veins, BA’s new chief executive Willie Walsh could fly before he could drive.

KEY executives at AIB covered up the foreign exchange scandal, a report to be published today by the financial services regulator (IFSRA) has found.

NOT one of the names under investigation as a result of the AIB foreign exchange banking scandal will be named in the second report by financial watchdog IFSRA into the affair.

AIB is today at the centre of yet another overcharging scandal.

KINGSPAN shares rose 3% yesterday after the Cavan-based building materials group issued an upbeat trading statement for the first half of the year.

SOFTWARE company Fineos saw a marked improvement in its financial performance last year turning a €5 million loss into a profit.

The chairman of the embattled Allied Irish Bank Group refused today to appear before a Parliamentary Committee until investigations into the institution’s dealings are completed.

The ISEQ closed up 32.91 points at 5225.55 today.

A major investigation was launched tonight into tax matters at the crisis-stricken Allied Irish Bank group.

BANK OF IRELAND will move to appoint a successor to Michael Soden as early as this week, but the vacancy left by former Aer Lingus chairman Tom Mulcahy will remain unfilled until later in the summer.

As two banks reel in the wake of scandal, DAVID CLERKIN compares their reactions to the crises.

AIB group chief executive Micheal Buckley is under mounting pressure following the sudden resignations of two major figures in Irish banking over the weekend.

WHEN my boss formally announced that the office computer system allowed management to monitor internet use, it focused our minds wonderfully. We realised that what we thought was private was in fact as public as a water-cooler.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was stating the obvious when, in an RTÉ radio interview yesterday, he said that breaches of the tax laws by AIB executives must be fully investigated.

THE search for the next chairman of Aer Lingus begins this week following the surprise resignation of Tom Mulcahy over the weekend.

The chairman of Aer Lingus, Tom Mulcahy, a former senior executive with AIB, is resigning from his position with the airline over the latest scandal at the bank.

OVER €360 million has been wiped off the value of shares in AIB as a result of recent scandals that have rocked the country's largest financial institution.

PRESSURE is mounting on the three top figures in AIB to appear before a Dáil committee investigating the financial scandals that have gripped the country’s biggest bank.

THE head of the country’s largest union yesterday urged Aer Lingus workers to reject privatisation of the company, which could yield them an average €30,000 windfall each.

Pre-tax profits of €23.8m have been announced by building materials group Kingspan for the first-six months of 2003.

AER LINGUS managers have come out in favour of selling the State airline next year.

MULTI-MILLION euro pub sales are still on the cards despite the economic downturn.

FINEOS, has announced the appointment of William Burgess as Chairman of its board of directors.