TWO rural communities were numbed by grief yesterday following the tragic deaths of two young women in separate road traffic accidents.

A teenage girl has died and six others are injured following a two-car crash in Co Galway.

GALWAY farmers Noel and Bernadette O’Toole have won the overall prize at the inaugural Irish Dairy Board (IDB) Dairy Farmer of the Year awards.

LABOUR party leader Eamon Gilmore has said he is not embarrassed by recent revelations that his wife sold a site to the state for €525,000.

OLLIE CANNING is heading into his 17th year as a senior hurler with Portumna — and he is as keen and fired-up now as he was when donned the jersey for the first time as a 16-year old.

Kilkenny's Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship hopes are hanging by a thread after they were well beaten by last year’s finalists Cork in Kilmanagh today.

Battling champions Wexford ensured that they are still in with a real chance of making the semi-finals of the 2008 Gala All-Ireland senior championship after securing a dramatic 3-8 to 2-8 victory against Tipperary on Saturday.

Reigning champions Wexford slumped to a second successive defeat in this year’s Gala All-Ireland senior camogie championship as the prolific Jessica Gill fired Galway to within touching distance of the semi-finals.

Three people were killed on the country’s roads in 24 hours, gardaí today confirmed.

Wexford took revenge for last weekend's National Camogie League final defeat with a 4-12 to 0-14 victory over Cork in today's opening round of the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship at Ballincollig.

Gardaí in Co Galway are questioning two 21-year-old men in connection with a raid on the village post office in Killimor yesterday.

TOMMY EVANS, riding for the Irish Sports Council team, got the FBD Milk Rás off to a flying start yesterday when he won a two man sprint for stage victory with the young Dane, Ari Hojgaard, into Roscrea and claimed the first yellow jersey of this year’s showpiece.