OF THE four local teams competing in the Bulmers All-Ireland Cups & Shields Finals at Monkstown Golf Club in Cork, Limerick Golf Club were not fancied by all that many to triumph in the Pierce Purcell Shield.

Senior football championship reaches the final four

THE semi-final line-up in the Live 95FM Limerick Senior Football Championship is now complete – holders Ballylanders will bump into St. St. Senan’s and Fr. Casey’s booked their last four berth with a weekend replayed win against Pallasgreen in Bruff, with both ties penciled-in to go ahead the weekend after next.

  O’Shea’s Golf Society

In days long since gone by we were all familiar with the little shebeen or thatch-roofed pub, which we might have dropped into to quench the thirst on our travels around rural Ireland.

IT WAS left to the richly talented Limerick GC Pierce Purcell Team to bring home some silverware from the thoroughly enjoyable Bulmers sponsored All-Ireland Cups & Shields Finals from Monkstown GC, which occupies a unique setting overlooking Cork Harbour.

A VERY special fund raising meeting will be held at the Markets Field this Saturday.

Munster have a point to prove

LAST season, following my radio commentary on the Leinster and Munster Magners league match, I sat in the main stand at the RDS and looked on in amazement as the Leinster team came back on the pitch to do a lap of honour.

IT MUST be something of a mystery to Limerick FC manager Mike Kerley as to why his side can play much better against the top sides than they do against those below them.

ATHLETICS

BALLINGARRY’S Annual Terry Fox Run is listed for Sunday next, with comedian Jon Kenny as guest participant this year.

BACK-TO-BACK Guinness Kerry National winner Ponmeoath is entered in the valuable Ladbrokes Munster National at Limerick’s Greenmount Park on Sunday, October 12^th.