Nuns who ran the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork should be questioned under caution by gardaí, a woman who gave birth to an infant there nearly 50 years ago has said.

Limerick woman, Ann O'Gorman, who had a little girl called Evelyn at Bessborough when she was just 17 years old, says that gardaí need to intervene in order to question members of the religious order who are still alive.

A State Commission has found that the bodies of hundreds of children from one Dublin mother and baby institution were used in anatomical research up to the late 1970s.

Four years after the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, the focus of its investigation has clearly moved away from Tuam and onto other headline-generating institutions like Bessborough and Sean Ross Abbey, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

Ireland Under-20 Grand Slam winner Rob Russell got among the tries as Dublin University claimed the scalp of All-Ireland League leaders Cork Constitution to take a step closer to a historic semi-final place.

IT Tralee manager Liam Brosnan accused the referee of 'targeting' their Kerry county players as the college exited the Sigerson Cup with 12 men and lost Kerry defender Gavin Crowley to injury.

The impressive 2018 winners will face the top-three teams in the all-time roll of honour.

The Moriarty Tribunal, into certain ‘Payments to Politicians and Related Matters’, was established in 1997 and took nearly 14 years to reach its conclusions — and even after that decade-plus commitment to thoroughness some of its findings remain contested and are still the subject of Supreme Court proceedings.

Sigerson Cup - St Mary’s 2-14 DCU-Dóchas Éireann 2-13 (AET): St Mary’s manager Paddy Tally praised his side after their dramatic upset in beating hosts and favourites DCU-Dóchas Éireann.

A look ahead to today’s action in Divisions 1A and 1B...

St Mary’s College 16 Cork Constitution 20: Cork Constitution survived a late onslaught from St Mary’s College to claim a narrow win in Division 1A of the Ulster Bank League at Templeville Road on Saturday.

Limerick City’s St Patrick’s Day parade grand marshal, Myles Breen, summed it up well: “What an audience.”

Previews of all today’s Division 1A/1B games.

It is good to see the Greece giving its population of almost 11 million the opportunity to vote on whether they wish to accept further austerity measures as part of the bailout. They obviously believe the people must have a say. They are sharing the decision, because it will be the people who will live with the outcome.

Sigerson Cup semi-final

Cistercian College, Roscrea 31 St Mary’s College 14: Leinster Schools’ Junior Cup: Adi Donovan was the hero at Donnybrook yesterday, as his hat-trick of tries helped Cistercian College Roscrea to make a perfect start to their Leinster Schools Junior Cup campaign.

Cistercian College, Roscrea 31 St Mary’s College 14: Leinster Schools’ Junior Cup: Adi Donovan was the hero at Donnybrook yesterday, as his hat-trick of tries helped Cistercian College Roscrea to make a perfect start to their Leinster Schools Junior Cup campaign.

Feeling frugal? Katie Wright reveals the insider tips, tricks and cheats you need to hunt down the best value in beauty buys.

Junior Rugby Focus

South Kerry SFC final: St Mary’s 0-14 Waterville Frank Casey’s 0-7

St Mary’s College 20 Lansdowne 38

The top two in the Munster Junior League will be aiming to pull away from the pack this weekend but both face potential banana skins.

The remains of six nuns who cared for the dying, sick, and poor in a Cork town are to be exhumed and reinterred in their regional headquarters in Limerick.

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Fermanagh 1-10 St Mary’s 3-8

Garryowen 15 St Marys College 24

St. Mary's College 44 Young Munster 24

Lansdowne exacted revenge for their defeat to Young Munster in December by whipping the Limerick men 37-17 on the Aviva Stadium’s back pitch.

Cork and Limerick both claimed victories over college sides in the opening round of the Waterford Crystal Cup today.

Tipperary senior hurling manager Eamon O’Shea has warned of serious repercussions for any player breaking the disciplinary code.

St. Mary’s College 16 Old Belvedere 18

It has been a disappointing start to the season for Ulster Bank League champions St Mary’s College, and Dolphin are keen to heap on the misery at Musgrave Park today.

The debate is ongoing in the Department of Transport on whether or not to close or greatly downgrade the coast guard stations at Valentia Island, Co Kerry, and maybe the one at Malin Head at the northern tip of Co Donegal too.

A man in his 60s has been killed in a crash in North Tipperary.

St Mary’s College 23 Young Munster 19

As far as club rugby is concerned, Castle Avenue in Dublin’s Clontarf is the place to be this afternoon.

THE curtain came down on another basketball extravaganza in Castleisland last night, their 42nd consecutive blitz, at a packed Castleisland Community Centre.

FEW need reminding that Leinster have beaten Munster in each of the last five meetings, once in the Heineken Cup and four times in the Magners League.

Young Munster 16 Shannon 3

St Mary’s College 15 Blackrock College 34