It is unprecedented — but entirely fitting — that two individuals who triggered the resignations of a minister for justice and a Garda commissioner, while forcing a Taoiseach to change his tune, should be honoured among the recipients of the People of the Year awards. But that is precisely what happened at the weekend, bringing to a close, for now, a chapter of the saga surrounding garda whistleblowers Maurice McCabe and John Wilson who have exposed wholesale corruption within the gardaí.

Whistleblowers Maurice McCabe and John Wilson have been honoured for their efforts to expose corruption in An Garda Síochána at an awards ceremony at the weekend.

A teenager who used his karate skills to fight off a bull which gored his father and flipped him in the air like a rag doll and another boy who saved a mother and child from drowning have received outstanding bravery awards from the gardaí.

Sunday looked like the perfect day.

TALLIES of 2-2 apiece from John Cooper and Conor Keane helped Farran NS to win this Allianz Sciath na Scol F9 final at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.