Whoever emerges as victor in tomorrow’s Dublin South West by-election, this particular poll could well be a weather vane for the shifting winds of politics, writes Michael Clifford

The Employment Appeals Tribunal has ordered RTÉ Dragon, Ramona Nicholas’s pharmacy group to pay €4,000 to a female sales assistant the business unfairly dismissed.

The Limerick intermediate team is still without a manager, but, in a compromise that was backed unanimously at a meeting of the county board in Claughaun GAA club last night, the dispute that had threatened to throw the county back into the chaos it had witnessed only three years ago was finally resolved.

THERE was a packed hall at the impressive Claughaun GAA complex last night for the special convention of Limerick GAA, followed immediately by the first county board meeting of 2010.

A MIDDLE-AGED woman who stole €98,316 when she was treasurer of a Co Limerick GAA club was last night in jail awaiting sentence.