Galway clinched the All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship tonight, piling more misery on Cork in the process.

The opening of To Kill A Mockingbird, a book Derek McGrath has taught to generations of English scholars at De La Salle secondary school in Waterford, describes how Jem Finch and his sister Scout got the notion to make Boo Radley, their reclusive neighbour, come out.

Cork star Colm O’Neill admits that, while he is happy to have received the all-clear from surgeon Tadhg O’Sullivan, he still doesn’t have a set return date pencilled in.

Irish shoppers are forking out up to a third more than their British counterparts for many items in shops.

EIGHTY-SIX miles separates the GAA club in Castletownbere and the Páirc Uí Rinn pitch where they hope to claim the Cork intermediate football trophy against Kinsale tomorrow afternoon.

ENDA BOLGER has found a suitable opportunity for Arabella Boy in the Devil’s Bit Beginners Chase at Thurles this afternoon and the six-year-old is the nap choice.

IN his letter (April 5), Micheal Job claims scrapping the air travel tax is purely populist and “there is no evidence to support” the claim that it is costing Ireland jobs or tourists. Mr Job is wrong.

KERRY coach Jack O’Connor is bracing himself for a third body blow to his 2010 Championship plans, with Tadhg Kennelly poised to agree a full-time return to the professional ranks of the AFL next season.

FOR the first Saturday in weeks the small north Cork village of Kilworth woke up to clear summer skies.

It is with regret that I learned of the recent death of Canon John Finn, former parish priest of Aghabullogue and Clondrohid in Co Cork. He was 91.