Super-sub Colm O’Keeffe was the hero for Blackrock as his second-half goal ensured his side will play senior hurling for the first time since 1998 after this Limerick Premier IHC final replay win.

Blackrock will play senior hurling for the first time since 1998 after this Premier IHC final replay win.

On Saturday night, 24 October 1915, a group of about 25 men from Queen’s County were staying in a hotel on Gardiner Street in Dublin. They were the hurlers of Leix – as Queen’s County was officially known in GAA circles – and they were in Dublin to play the All-Ireland hurling final against Cork.

The partner of a motorcyclist whose death was caused by the dangerous driving of a van driver at a junction near Rathcormac, Co Cork, described it yesterday as “a stupid waste of a young man’s life”.

Ireland’s first Multiskillz Academy is helping children develop key skills in a fun way, writes Nuala Woulfe.

Two daughters of a Cork man sentenced to 10 years in jail today for sexually abusing them over a number of years have told 3News that they had adored him, but he took their childhood innocence.

Cataract-surgery cancellations are likely by the end of 2017 to be at a six-year high, with 926 patients affected so far this year.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has criticised frontline gardaí for rejecting the “specific findings” of the false breath-tests investigation and attempting to wash their hands of responsibility for the affair.

Ten years ago, Peter O’Keeffe was omitted from the Irish team for the Home International Championship.

A retired Irish army weapons instructor who pulled a revolver in a Limerick takeaway after “losing the rag” with two children was yesterday jailed at Limerick Circuit Court.

The partner of the young woman who was found dead at Sheares St, Cork City, on Sunday was in court yesterday charged with assault causing harm to a young man on Monday.

A 10-month-old baby girl had “classic” symptoms of abusive head trauma, the trial of her former child minder heard today.

Latest: Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae has said that someone drinking three glasses of Guinness will not cause fatalities on Irish roads.

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Fianna Fáil TD Eamon Ó Cuív will deliver the keynote speech at this year’s commemoration of Gaelic scholar and activist Dónal Ó Loingsigh in Baile Mhúirne, Co Cork.

WHEN former Taoiseach Brian Cowen was minister for health, he famously compared the post to Angola’s notorious war zone. After only four months in office, the present incumbent, Simon Harris, might be inclined to agree with him.

Unemployment in the South-East of the country is at crisis point after almost a decade and a half of stagnation in the regional economy, a wide-ranging new report has found.

A simple motion to provide home advantage to the weaker county in both hurling and football All-Ireland qualifiers may be a more acceptable alternative to the football championship proposals.

A Dublin man has been convicted of using a fake social media profile to convince a young girl to come to his house and have sex with him.

A leading TD has “worries”, because the chair of the probe into IBRC once acted against the former Anglo bank. However, Catherine Murphy, joint leader of the Social Democrats, did not call for Judge Brian Cregan to step down, though the IBRC deals cost the taxpayer €10m.

It will be a “close call” whether the banking probe can consider former Anglo chief David Drumm’s written evidence after the idea of allowing him to given video-link testimony was torpedoed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, a senior source has warned.

Two men were jailed for eight years yesterday for their part in a horrific assault on a man who sustained life-changing injuries less than 100m from his home in Cork City.

Karen’s parents John and Marian, and brothers Brendan, Kieran, and Damien sat in silent contemplation as Fr Joe O’Keeffe paid a moving tribute to their loss.

Families of two Egyptian victims settle for €137,700 and €162,700.

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Nobel Prize winner John O’Keefe will receive an honorary doctorate at University College Cork today.

Scientist John O’Keefe, whose father hailed from Newmarket, Co Cork, and Norwegian married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser, have won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the "inner GPS" that helps the brain navigate through the world.

Three scientists, including a Norwegian married couple, have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the “inner GPS” that helps the brain navigate through the world.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 4 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

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Premier League team news for 3pm kick-offs.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 2 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

A total of 39% of adults in Dublin said they visited a pub weekly or more often, according to a new survey.

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Striker Fernando Torres returns to start for Premier League leaders Chelsea in today’s clash with relegation-threatened Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.

A dramatic last-second three pointer from Carrigaline Community School’s Adam O’Keefe, his first score of the game, secured yesterday’s U16 B Boys All-Ireland Schools League title in Dublin’s National Basketball Arena.

Louise O’Keeffe is remarkable; her innocence was destroyed by an agent of the Irish State, yet her naivete regarding a politician’s apology remains undimmed.

THE European Court of Human Rights has found in favour of an Irish woman who sought to hold the State liable for sexual abuse she suffered at a Catholic-run primary school in 1973.

The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in favour of a woman sexually abused in primary school could cost the State millions in follow-on claims.

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