In the closing days of August 1975, Paddy Downey, the revered Gaelic games correspondent of The Irish Times, made a little pilgrimage to Kilkenny and had a ball.

Four people have died in three separate road crashes in Kilkenny, Galway and Dublin today.

A number of motorists have been injured in a crash involving an articulated lorry in Co Kilkenny, gardaí said today.