A LATE flash of genius from Leinster out-half Alex O’Driscoll lit up an attritional A Schools interprovincial encounter in Midleton yesterday.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney has challenged claims by health service chief Prof Brendan Drumm that he did not anticipate a loss of income as a byproduct of the new consultants’ contract.

UP to 30 recently qualified nurses and four consultants at Sligo General Hospital were told yesterday their contracts will not be renewed at the end of the month due to the staffing freeze signalled by the Health Service Executive (HSE) earlier this month.

Sean O’Riordan

Limerick 2-12 Cork 1-18

THE lives of pedestrians are being put at risk because of a lack of regular driving tests and unregulated driving instructors, a doctor warned yesterday.

Three men were being questioned in the UK today after a police officer was stabbed to death and four others injured during a raid on terrorist suspects linked to last week’s discovery of the deadly poison ricin.