Eugene O’Sullivan’s The Blarney Rose lit up yesterday’s extremely wet Boulta point-to-point fixture by destroying the opposition in the open lightweight.

Irish mineral exploration firm Connemara Mining has said there is a good prospect of recoverable gold deposits at its licences on the border of counties Wicklow and Wexford, adding that it could start drilling in the coming months.

THE Dublin coroner has recommended that emergency services in the south-east be reviewed to ensure ambulances are properly directed to patients’ homes.

CARNEW’S Don Hyland has made a number of attempts to retire, but each time has found the call of hurling too great to resist.

THE law in some American states which prohibits any vehicle from passing a school bus when children are stepping on or off should be considered in Ireland, a High Court judge suggested yesterday.

THE prestigious Limerick Lady title was won last weekend by John McLoughlin, Falduff, Louisburgh, Co Mayo, with his home-bred qualifier at Westport Show, by Grosvenor Lad out of Falduff Lady.

I USED to think Shillelagh was a placename invented for American movies.

A new warning light system, installed on 40 school buses will begin operating in three areas of the country from today.

A five-year-old girl has died she was struck by a car in Co Wicklow yesterday afternoon.

Gardaí in Co Wicklow have released the two people arrested in connection with the shooting of a publican in the village of Carnew on Sunday morning.

Gardaí in Co Wicklow are continuing to hold two people arrested yesterday in connection with the shooting of a publican during a robbery in the village of Carnew.

Gardaí have arrested a male in his 30s and a female in her 20s in connection with an attempted robbery in Carnew, Co Wicklow earlier.

MORE than 153,000 drivers have penalty points but just three are off the road. Another 35 are two points short of the number needed for automatic disqualification, statistics published yesterday show.

A 24-year-old man was killed after the motorcycle on which he was a pillion passenger went out of control and into a ditch near Carnew in Co Wicklow.