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

AIDAN MURPHY won a place in the Munster senior quarter-final when he beat Edmund Sexton by almost a bowl at Baile Bhuirne on Monday evening.

IT was meant to be one of Ireland’s best tax relief schemes for investors during the boom. And in a scenic area outside the Leitrim town of Drumshanbo, the apparent low prices for a home in the little estate of Cnoc an Iuir must have been also very attractive for young buyers at the time.