Templeogue remain the only unbeaten team in the Men’s Super League following a comfortable 81-70 win over UCC Demons at Inchicore.

A 54-year-old woman died as she soaked in the bath with her book, an inquest has heard.

Killester produced a season best performance last week to thrash Belfast Star in the Men’s Premier National Cup and will hope to build on that effort tomorrow when they travel to play Moycullen, whose coach is still fuming about the treatment of his players last week.

A crucial weekend for C & S UCC Demons as they face a double header, beginning tomorrow with a visit to the capital for a clash with Eanna, following by a mouth-watering home clash against Swords Thunder on Sunday.

UL Eagles maintained their perfect start to the Men’s Premier League season when defeating Swords Thunder 77-71 at the Alsaa on Saturday.

C&S UCC Demons finished 2014 with another resounding victory in the Premier Men’s league following their 101-81 win over Templeogue at the Mardyke Arena yesterday.

Matches away from home for Connacht used to follow a fairly similar pattern.

A team of 26 athletes who survived organ transplants or are on dialysis will represent Ireland against the best of Europe next month.

If anyone is accustomed to overcoming obstacles it is Ireland’s sprint hurdler Derval O’Rourke but there are times when something as basic as finding a track on which to train can be problematic for the Cork athlete and her fellow Olympic hopefuls.

HOCKEY fans in Cork are spoilt for choice this weekend as eight of the country’s top sides do battle on Leeside in round three of the Irish Hockey League.

A PLACE in the 800m final and the six-year-old Irish indoor record will be top of Thomas Chamney’s agenda when the Tipperary man takes to the blocks at this weekend’s European Indoor Championships in Birmingham.

Aer Lingus workers at Shannon have joined their Dublin counterparts and voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action over plans to privatise the airline.

DUBLIN CITY FC manager Roddy Collins has swung the axe at the Premier Division basement club by placing 14 first team squad players on the transfer list.

ALTHOUGH efforts to get the issue on the agenda failed, athletics unity and the prospect of one licence for all of Ireland will be mentioned at the second annual Congress of Athletics Ireland this weekend in Donegal.

THE fact that AAI won’t be sending short course teams to the world cross-country championships in Brussels next month may have taken some of the gloss of yesterday’s championships at ALSAA, near Dublin Airport, but the keenness of the competition was reflected in sprint finishes to both the men’s and women’s races.