The Nire (Waterford) 1-11 Ballylanders (Limerick) 0-7

Waterford SFC: Although this latest renewal lacked the usual bite, keen rivals The Nire and Stradbally still served up a six-goal spectacle at Fraher Field on Saturday evening.

A 42-year-old woman who is several months pregnant and is due a baby shortly after Christmas has lost her attempt not to be evicted from her council house in a village in Co Kerry.

A young woman found dead in Tralee, Co Kerry, at the weekend had battled alcohol addiction for several years.

A 100-YEAR-OLD horse-drawn farm cart carried the last Knight of Glin to his final resting place in Co Limerick yesterday.

THE Railway Procurement Agency has unveiled a pre-tax operating surplus on infrastructure activities of €1.1 million for 2010, boosted by an 8% annual increase in Luas numbers.

Offaly 0-15 Waterford 0-10

TWO of Munster football’s lesser lights convened in Croke Park on Saturday afternoon with a more seasoned and experienced Limerick outfit carrying off the honours in an excellent Allianz NFL Division 4 decider.

BRAUN has confirmed it is to make 160 of its 260 staff in Carlow redundant with a further 100 to be transferred to Newbridge.

Cork 2-18 Waterford 1-07

PETER McDONNELL, who had the unenviable task of trying to replace charismatic Joe Kernan as Armagh manager has refused to rule out current captain Paul McGrane and Oisin McConville being involved again next year.

AFTER the disappointment of losing to arch rivals Nire a week earlier, Stradbally reinstated themselves as one of the favourites to lift the Waterford senior football championship title with a decisive 12-point victory over St Brendan’s at Leamybrien last night.

Waterford 0-07 Clare 0-9

THE Waterford selectors have placed their trust in the same starting 15 that shocked Clare in the opening round for Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final against All-Ireland champions Kerry in Dungarvan.

SIPTU has withdrawn the threat of strike action by its 700 members working in the Great Southern Hotel group and agreed to Labour Court recommendations on the sale of the group.

THE littler All-Ireland, you could call it. The Cork county junior hurling title is widely regarded as one of the toughest GAA championships to win, and they know all about that around Ladysbridge and Ballymacoda in east Cork.

Seanie Buckley, Padraig Browne and Michael Crowley will make their first championship starts for Liam Kearns' Limerick in Sunday's Munster SFC semi-final meeting with All-Ireland champions Kerry at the Gaelic Grounds.

WATERFORD hurling manager Justin McCarthy has made three changes from the team that failed to Galway last Sunday for tomorrow’s NHL tie with Clare in Dungarvan.

SALARIES for the country’s chief executives range from €85,000 to €268,000 and beyond.