A 77-year-old retired primary school teacher was jailed yesterday for a disgraceful breach of trust where he sexually abused a 9-year-old boy eight times in the early 1990s.

A referee abandoned a county intermediate football championship game eight minutes from the end as he feared for his safety.

Parents from rural schools around Cork and Kerry brandished placards at the hurling and football double-header in Cork, urging the Government not to shut down rural Ireland.

A CAMPAIGN to stop cuts to primary school buses in rural areas is “only just beginning” according to activists who have mobilised up to 600 parents from schools across Munster.