Cork bounced back from their opening night defeat Limerick to hammer Kerry in this Munster MHC play-off clash at Austin Stack park on Saturday.

Causeway CS had to battle a spirited Hazelwood College’s challenge at a blustery Tournafulla yesterday.

DEIRDRE RYAN (Dundrum South Dublin) was named Athlete of the Year at the National Athletics Awards in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Santry on Saturday night.

THERE was a larger than usual attendance for the early morning start of the AVIVA Irish Schools Track and Field Championships at Tullamore on Saturday when star racewalker, Kate Veale (St. Augustine’s, Dungarvan), made her first appearance on home soil since winning the bronze medal in the junior walk at the European Cup in the Algarve.

SHANE QUINN is set to continue his amazing streak of victories when he contests the intermediate 3,000m at the Irish Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore this morning.

A Tipperary man involved in the killing of Galway pensioner Tommy Casey, who was beaten and left to die in his home in 1996, was sentenced to six years today in the Central Criminal Court.

A man on trial for the murder of a Galway pensioner has pleaded guilty to his manslaughter.