Clare County Council is set to proceed with legal action against telephone companies that have left phone kiosks in a "ruinous, derelict, and neglected" condition.

They might have to wait another three weeks to learn their fate on the hurling pitch, but Kilkenny folk are celebrating victory in another field after winning the national Tidy Towns contest.

Abbeyshrule in Co Longford has been crowned the Tidiest Town in Ireland for 2012.

THE pensioner priest with the Midas touch has done it yet again.

WEEDS were plucked, grass cut, litter banished, rust vanished and a zero-tolerance policy imposed on dereliction of both duty and property.