The James O’Donovan juggernaut continued in the Co-Action benefit in Casteltownkenneigh where he beat Killian Kingston. Brothers Aidan and David Murphy beat Martin Coppinger and Séamus Sexton in the opening score there.

Jack Kennedy followed up Sunday’s double at Downpatrick by claiming another brace in Ballinrobe last night.

With the weather looking absolutely smashing for the upcoming Bank Holiday, it looks like the Baysports Hodson Bay maybe the place to go.

Naas hosts today’s horse racing action and Macbride can overcome an absence by taking the opening Welcome To Toomevara GAA Raceday Maiden Hurdle for Aidan O’Brien.

Michael O’Callaghan is striving to restore past glories to the historic Crotanstown Stud stables at the Curragh.

ARDMORE-GOAT ISLAND, WATERFORD.

Sq m: 70 (750 sq ft)

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Adam, Ahern, Black, Bolger, Brennan, Breslin — the names read like poetry under the Menin Gate. Molloy, Moran, Morgen, Mulvihill, Murphy, Murray — all buried in unknown graves in Flanders soil.

Location: Ardmore, Waterford

Failte Ireland has said the Obama's trip to Glendalough today is the perfect postcard image of Ireland for the US tourist market.

West Cork €310,000

Muck ‘N’ Brass completed doubles for Eddie Lynam and Wayne Lordan when landing yesterday’s finale at Dundalk, the featured Irish Stallion Farms August Handicap, in dramatic style.

The Munster senior championship quarter-final draws and next Sunday’s Pool A play-off at Skibbereen between Aidan Murphy, Martin Coppinger and James O’Donovan are dominating bowling discourse this week.

WE’VE been running out of national superlatives here in Ireland in recent years: we’re no longer the richest/fastest-growing/youngest/friendliest and more island, ever since our economic bubble inflated and burst its banks.

ARDMORE has very much moved with the times. The new Cliff House Hotel and its Michelin-starred chef, Dutchman Martijn Kajuiter, has put it on a far more sweeping radar for visitors than heretofore.

LINKS to the past come with a tax incentivised development in Cloyne east Cork, while links to the future come with another, separate scheme in west Cork.

Tommy Barker visits what is reputed to be Ardmore’s finest property.

NO prizes for guessing the name - an open and shut case, this Ardmore seaside home has been called Green Shutters for decades.

Fine Gael must aim to win back a traditional Co Donegal Dáil seat that it held for over a third of a century if it wants to enter the next government, it was claimed tonight.

The Church of Ireland cathedral in Kilkenny has been forced to close to visitors until October 25 to facilitate refurbishment work on its 150-year-old heating system.

THERE were at least nine retreat houses in Ardmore, Co Waterford at one stage - the Brothers and Sisters of various orders of the Catholic church made their way every summer to the village founded by St Declan.

THE views at Ardmore are so good, they built a Round Tower just to capitalise on them — but, then, that was in the pre-planning days.

ON an elevated site with some of the best views of Ardmore Bay and next door to its famous round tower renowned for its early Christian carvings, number 1, Bay View is currently on the market with auctioneer, Eamonn Spratt.