2,100 hectares currently planted with spruce and pine forests will be restored with re-wetted bog and replanted with native woodlands.

The Offaly and Birr star played when the centre-forward's job was to flake.

A criminal case relating to alleged online abuse of Clare GAA secretary Pat Fitzgerald and other county officials is at an advanced stage.

Gerry Mahon and Eamon O’Neill met in the Zest coffee shop in Limerick on February 6 last.

Gusts of up to 100kmh are expected in some western coastal counties as well as parts of the midlands and east today.

Cork minor camogie manager Jerry Wallace has lodged an appeal to the Camogie Association against the decision to cancel this year’s All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship.

If you are going to holiday in Ireland, you could hardly do better than Munster.

Champions Dublin have been pitted with Waterford and Donegal in the round-robin phase of the revised 2020 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship.

Three people were rescued from a sinking boat off Co Clare late last night by an RNLI lifeboat crew.

House prices have fallen by 2.9% so far this year but held remarkably steady during the peak months of the coronavirus crisis, a new report has revealed.

This extract from the John Doyle biography — Doyle, The Greatest Hurling Story Ever Told by John Harrington — covers the 1951 Munster final between Tipperary and Cork, regarded as one of the greatest ever games.

Derek McGrath claims there is “populist propaganda” driving the club versus county debate.

Davy Fitzgerald has labelled posters on a Clare GAA fans web page as “cowards” for calling him a traitor in recent days.

It's clear that the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael attempted to improve the gender balance of their Seanad showing, with Fianna Fáil electing three women, and Fine Gael electing four.

The number of new cases of Covid-19 and deaths associated with the virus continues to fall here .

Dublin is the worst-hit county by Covid-19, new figures show.

Half of wet wipes found in a study of Irish waters were branded as 'flushable' but actually contained microplastic pollutants.

Six people have been arrested in the latest crackdown on organised crime in Limerick and surrounding areas.

Some 15 counties reported no new cases of the coronavirus in the week ending June 12 — with a further 10, including Cork, reporting fewer than five cases.

Dublin is the only county that had more than 10 new cases last week.

Farmers have warned of a 50% reduction in straw supply, due to drought.

Nine people have been arrested and more than 60 searches carried out in a garda operation.

As the programme for government negotiations comes to an end, all three parties will be designated a number of Taoiseach's nominees to the Seanad.

A weather advisory has been issued for the whole country ahead of expected further thunder and lightning storms.

Two people arrested in connection with a €440,000 drug seizure are due in court this afternoon.

There were fewer than 20 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Munster last week.

Some of the counties worst affected economically by Covid-19 are among the winners of a new tranche of tourism project funding.

Robert Hume highlights a case of blatant sexism one hundred years ago.

The live streaming of Limerick county championship fixtures later this year will be behind a paywall.

Colette Cowan, head of the UL Hospitals Group, said she expects there will be a “surge” of cases of Covid-19, flu and respiratory related illnesses at UHL over winter.

What happens the county player whose club is knocked out in the first round of the championship?

Mike Quirke and Anthony Daly are celebrating the GAA's return to play plan, but say there are many questions to answer.

Farmland market news

Just eight prosecutions have been taken in the last decade for illegal burning of vegetation in Munster, it has emerged, as emergency services fought several wildfires this weekend, including one close to an explosives plant.

Two young boys have been rescued off the Clare coast after they were reported to be adrift in a small inflatable dinghy.

As much as we’d come to associate this time of year with glorious hurling weekends magnified by the sport’s highly satisfying new format, we may have forgotten the soundtrack that usually accompanied football around now: the din of complaints and demands for a “new championship structure”.

In these highly-charged times, emotional and psychological resilience are tested as they have not been in several lifetimes.

This may come as something of a shock to all of you this morning, struggling to get the scrambled eggs in past the face mask, but it’s true.

More than 70,000 homes and businesses are at risk from coastal flooding due to climate change in the next 30 years - with Munster counties firmly in the crosshairs of Mother Nature’s angry response to humankind’s dereliction of duty when it comes to harming the planet.

Three yellow wind warnings are in place across the country.

Large parts of the workforce in Munster are vulnerable to any prolonged economic crisis from the Covid-19 health fallout, new figures suggest.

Met Éireann have announced a number of status yellow wind warnings and a weather advisory for the whole country.

Leitrim is now the only county in Ireland with fewer than 100 cases reported, with just 74, while there have been relatively low numbers recorded in Carlow, Clare, Sligo and Waterford.

“To mention putting hunger into Cork players shouldn’t be a problem. If they’re not hungry now, when are they going to be hungry? Or how are you going to put the hunger into them?"

Businesses across Munster are diversifying their output to meet the challenges the coronavirus pandemic has created.

"I went through a phase where I’d dislocate the very top of the fourth finger on my catching hand, just taking the eye off the ball."

The pundits will be analysing two classics from recent years.

As an island Ireland has the opportunity to “stamp down” the coronavirus to “a really low level”, Professor Glynn said.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has called for areas and institutions with clusters of the coronavirus to be identified and for the widespread wearing of masks to prevent infection spreading.

Welcome to Chapter Seven of the Irish Examiner's #CoronavirusSolidarity diary.