It was a simple and dignified ceremony, straight-forward and to the point with little or no fuss, one he himself would have been proud of.

A GARDA superintendent whose officers searched a bingo hall and seized property in a case where the licence is in dispute said yesterday at the High Court in Cork that “the last thing I wanted to do was go down there and take bingo books from old ladies”.

MAGICAL days for Limerick’s Blackrock GAA club ahead of tomorrow night’s All-Ireland Club JHC final against St Colmcille’s of Tyrone.

WHEN I set up home many years ago in what’s now the Cork suburb of Blackrock, it seemed we were living in the countryside.