Barry O’Leary kept his overnight lead to clinch the Irish Seniors Close Championship at Kilkenny Golf Club, closing with a round of 72 to win by two shots.

There were mixed views on today's higher level Maths Paper 2.

Junior Cert students faced a tricky proposition with today's Maths Paper 2, according to teachers.

Higher level maths students faced an algebra-dominated paper without any financial maths, but it was easier and shorter than their mock exams, teachers say.

Students emerged pleased with the Junior Certificate English exam today after sitting a paper described as general and doable.

If you are a golfer and you don’t know Tom Coyne, then you’ve been living under a rock.

Stephen Rochford’s pathway from Mayo to Donegal wasn’t exactly straightforward.

Kevin Markham looks at some of the recent investments made by progressive Irish golf clubs.

It was a long time ago when I first visited Enniscrone. I was 13 and I played a links that Eddie Hackett designed in 1970. The course had been here since the 1930s but now holes slipped into the big dunes that divided the links from Killala Bay.

The motion calling for the vote received the backing of Sligo County Council, and will take place in September.

Sara Byrne believes her golf career has hit a new level after capturing the Irish Women’s Close Championship title at Enniscrone.

This year's paper was well received by students and teachers alike.

Kevin Markham looks at the clubs celebrating anniversaries in 2018.

There was relief as much as joy for Galway Golf Club at Carton House as the pain of a third successive Barton Shield final defeat was erased with victory in the blue riband event at the AIG Cups and Shields on Saturday.

Friendships on the golf course make any challenge easy to overcome, writes Kevin Markham.

The undertaker who made world headlines when he transported a decommissioned Boeing 767 by sea to his planned glamping village, has hit out at banks who he claimed treat the west of Ireland as a “no-go area”.

Chef Adrian Martin says that the reason why he’s so skinny is that he cooks everything himself from scratch.

One of the smallest GAA communities in the country has double reason for celebration after two of their players made their senior inter-county debut on Sunday.

Kehlan Kirwan reflects on attending business events across the country over four days and some of the most interesting aspects that struck him throughout.

And David McGowan's glamping vision is one step closer to completion.

Well, David McGowan’s plane made it to Sligo.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

For broadcaster Anton Savage, the arrival of a barge carrying a disused Boeing 767 into Enniscrone, Co Sligo was not all ‘plane’ sailing.

It's plane sailing all the way to Sligo

This is NOT something you see everyday - a Boeing 767 sailing majestically up the west coast of Ireland on a barge.

David McGowan has great plans for the town of Enniscrone.

A funeral director who is in the process of a moving a Boeing 767 by sea to Sligo captivated the nation this morning.

Fr Peter Quinn, a hero of Mayo’s All-Ireland SFC victories in 1950 and 1951, has died.

The Sligo councillor at the centre of this week’s RTÉ exposé has said he will not be resigning his council seat.

Cian O’Connor was confident last night that Ireland’s show jumping team can battle back in the European Championships today in Aachen, Germany, to secure Olympic qualification.

Beaches and marinas across the country are bathing in the warm waters of European approval — 86 of them have been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag status.

Three of today’s four FBD League games brought wins for new men at the helm as Mayo, Leitrim and Galway emerged winners along with Roscommon.

Kerry has the lowest number of vacant commercial properties in the country followed by Wexford and Westmeath, while Munster tops the provincial table with the fewest number of vacancies.

Muskerry Golf Club have the chance to bury their demons of three years ago when their quartet bids for an All-Ireland title in the AIG Barton Shield at Carton House today.

Pádraig Harrington predicted earlier this year that within the decade, the likes of Bubba Watson and Rory McIlroy will be battling a new generation of stars who will hit the ball 380 yards — at least. 

Ryder Cup watch; Irish Open winner Mikko Ilonen has put himself in the Ryder Cup conversation thanks to his stress-free, wire-to-wire victory at Fota Island.

The 97,000 fans who thronged the magnificent Fota Island Resort over the last four days had it all. The weather, the big names, the course looking better than an airbrushed postcard.

The Heath’s Mary Doyle cruised to a hugely impressive 2 and 1 win over Holywood’s Jessica Carty to lift the Irish Women’s Amateur Close Championship at a sun-kissed Enniscrone.

East of Ireland champion Colm Campbell and leading qualifier Stuart Grehan were forced to dig deep to make it into the last 16 of the AIG-sponsored Irish Amateur Close Championship at a sun-kissed Seapoint.