Cork City 3 Bray Wanderers 0

GEORGE BURLEY was left still seeking his first win as Scotland manager heading into next month’s World Cup qualifiers after being held to a goalless stalemate by Northern Ireland at Hampden.

Courcey Rovers 2-15 Mallow 1-10

Chelsea 4 Portsmouth 0

MANCHESTER CITY striker Valeri Bojinov has suffered another injury setback and is facing a further six months on the sidelines.

A DOWNTURN in the economy will result in an increase in incidents of fraudulent activity, which could cost Irish businesses millions of euro.

SHE’S only 12 but already this young virtuoso has won her third national fiddle title.

IT IS an ironic reflection of the rapid deterioration of Ireland’s manufacturing base that we are now even reduced to importing our xenophobia from abroad.

KERRY captain Paul Galvin last night returned to his first county training since being controversially dismissed against Clare on June 15.

UNLIKE coach Brian Cody, Kilkenny captain James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick admitted that winning three All-Ireland titles in-a-row was a huge motivating factor for him and his colleagues.

After Kilkenny steam-rolled to an historic three-in-a-row with a demolition of Waterford yesterday, mastermind of the display, Brian Cody, spoke to Brendan Larkin.

IT’S Kilkenny’s hurling world. Everyone else just lives in it.

A FESTIVE atmosphere, jersey-bedecked fans cheering and singing, white and blue as far as the eye could see: Waterford’s city centre was truly a heaving mass of joy and celebration yesterday afternoon. Then the match started.

FROM big hearts come some huge results and this Evening Echo Cork Co SHC semi-final upset at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday was a whopper.

CHANGING TIMES

THREE Linfield football fans appeared in court yesterday charged over trouble that flared at a cross-border cup match.

BERTIE AHERN last night insisted he was not engaged in trying to “bury” bad EU news until the looming referendum on the EU treaty was out of the way.

FOR the third successive time, Nigel Owens will be the man in the middle for a Munster Heineken Cup match, when the Reds meet Saracens at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena on Sunday week, April 27.

HE won’t be 20 until October, but Joe Canning has the maturity to match his undoubted skills.

DLS Waterford 2-12 Thurles CBS 1-15 (After extra-time)