A bright light went out yesterday in Irish sport and news journalism with the death after a brief illness of one of its best known practitioners — John A Murphy.

THE Gaelic Writers’ Association will today honour a journalist who has filed reports for half a century on the national games.

A lucrative new sponsorship deal between the mobile phone company 3 Ireland and the Waterford County GAA Board was officially signed off yesterday and will embrace all of the Déise teams in both hurling and football over the next two seasons.

NORA WALL, the former nun wrongfully convicted of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1999, is to sue the State for damages.