Gardaí arrested a man and brought him before Cork District Court on aggravated burglary and other charges after a man in his early 60s was stabbed in the face at his home in Blarney, Co Cork.

Enda Kenny has defended a controversial cut to a social welfare payment for single parents, the funerals of two victims of the Berkeley tragedy have taken place in Dublin, a single farmer in Co Mayo has won the right to be buried on his own land, and Jurassic World is now the fastest film to ever breach the billion dollar mark at the box office worldwide. Read the latest on this and more in this evening’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

The first funerals for the victims of the Berkeley tragedy take place today, 30 years on the Ahakista memorial stands in tribute to those lost in the Air India tragedy, a Sinn Féin councillor has been expelled amid a row involving claims of bullying, and how skinny jeans left a woman unable to walk.  Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com catch-up using twitter.

A burglar was jailed for seven months yesterday after fingerprints on an apartment window linked him to the scene of his crime where he stole a €2,000 laptop.

Martin Coppinger had a comfortable two bowls of odds win over James Buckley at Waterfall in the final pool score of the Munster senior championship on Sunday.

Sunday’s Mallow Contracts Queen of the Roads final at Ballincurrig elevated women’s bowling to a whole new plane.

Killian Kingston beat Donal Riordan by over a bowl in the Tim Foley Cup at Templemartin on Sunday.

David Shannon won the Munster Junior C final with an incredible 13 shot performance against Shane Lotty at Jagoes Mills on Monday.

Martin Coppinger and Eddie Carr will face each other in the rescheduled All-Ireland senior final at Béal na mBláth on Saturday, August 24.

Violence flared as emergency services recovered the body of a member of the Travelling community from a Co Cork river.

David Murphy continued his march to the Munster senior championship quarter-final with a bowl-of-odds win over Nicholas Carey at Templemichael on Sunday.

Donal Riordan and William O’Driscoll had good wins in the Munster intermediate championship, beating brothers Anthony and Noel Gould respectively.

PJ Cooney and Arthur McDonagh had the first two wins of the 2013 Munster intermediate championship at the weekend.

Gavin Twohig got the first win in the renewal of the Connie Killarney Cup at Skibbereen on Sunday when he beat Donal Riordan by over two bowls.

JAMES O’Donovan took thefinal honours of 2012 when he beat Christy Mullins by a bowl in the RNLI benefit at Castletownbere for €24,400 on Friday.

Trevor O’Meara led from line to line in his bowl-of-odds win over Raymond Ryan in the Munster Intermediate final at Donoughmore on Sunday.

Martin Coppinger kept his Munster senior championship hopes alive when he beat James O’Donovan by five metres at Bauravilla on Sunday.

James O’Donovan had an explosive start in his bowl-of-odds win over John Creedon in the Munster Senior Championship at Rosscarbery.

All-Ireland champion Conor McGuigan and Martin Toal gave Ulster a last shot win over brothers David and Aidan Murphy in the feature score at Port Mór on St. Patrick’s Day.

Brian Wilmot made a successful start to his senior championship career when he beat Patrick O’Donoghue in their Pool C tie at Gortroe.

LEONARD BOWEN won the Dan Herlihy Cup final at Waterfall where he had a comprehensive bowl of odds win over Mick Murphy (Innishannon).

CHRISTY MULLINS brought a memorable 2011 to a perfect conclusion with a convincing win over Gary Daly in the feature score of the RNLI Benefit Day at Castletownbere.

Denis O’Driscoll had an astonishing win over John O’Rourke in the Bill Barrett Cup at Caheragh.

CHRISTY MULLINS won the opening round of the Con Kelleher-Dan Hurley Cup with a convincing win over James O’Donovan at Drimoleague.

DAVID HUBBARD secured a place in the Cork semi-final of the Jim O’Driscoll Cup when he beat Wayne Callanan in the last shot at Ballincurrig.

PADDY O’DONOGHUE held on for a good last-shot win against a powerful late surge from John Creedon at Killumney in Pool 4 of the Munster Senior Championship.

MARTIN COPPINGER extended the possibilities of the Markethill Road near Keady beyond what could ever be imagined when he won the Joe McVeigh Cup yesterday by close to four bowls of odds after just nine throws to the threequarter mark.

ALL-IRELAND champion Martin Coppinger has a chance to show his true talent by winning the Joe McVeigh Cup at the Ból-Fada Festival in Keady, Armagh on Sunday.

GARY DALY made a winning start to his Munster senior championship career by beating Gavin Twohig in the last shot at Béal na mBláth on Saturday.

GARY DALY’S senior career came of age on Sunday when he beat All-Ireland champion Martin Coppinger in the last shot of a pulsating Joe O’Sullivan Acorn Life Cup final at Castletownbere.

World Champion Aidan Murphy hit pay dirt at Drimoleague on Saturday when he won the resumed Con Kelleher-Dan Hurley Cup final from what looked certain defeat and followed up with a convincing win over Martin Coppinger.

WAYNE CALNAN got 2011 off to a perfect start by beating Johnny O’Driscoll by almost a bowl in the opening score of the Mother Hegarty Cup at Lyre at the weekend.

A MAN who died in a car crash after a Garda pursuit through Cork’s rush-hour traffic had a cocktail of alcohol and valium in his system, an inquest was told yesterday.

GARDAÍ were on high alert last night after a public order unit was brought in to arrest five Travellers at a halting site in Co Cork.

ONE garda was hospitalised with a serious eye injury and his colleague was chased by a man with a slash hook after a disturbance at a Travellers’ campsite on Sunday morning and early afternoon.

Bail was refused tonight to three men facing charges arising out of a serious disturbance at a Travellers’ campsite following the death of a man in a car crash at the weekend.

Two slash hooks, a bolt-cutter, a saw, a golf club, a hurley, a wheelbrace and several other weapons were seized by gardaí during the eruption of violence today in an 18-month-old family feud in Cork.