Tipperary native Michael Hunt, 74, a schoolteacher in Rathmines, is the ‘Mr Chips’ of Irish schools’ athletics. President of the ISAA for the past 21 years, he is stepping down in December so today’s Irish Life Health All-Ireland Schools’ Track & Field Championships will be his last at the helm.

If the upgrade to the national electricity grid is not carried out, the country will face blackouts, Gridlink project manager John Lowry said yesterday.

Commercial viability of wind exports ‘uncertain’.

THE mother of a 15-year-old girl who is believed may have travelled to London after meeting a man on the internet said she had warned her daughter of the dangers of speaking to people online.

A DRUNK driver who dragged his dying wife from the passenger seat of their car to blame her for the fatal crash was convicted of causing death by careless driving in Britain yesterday.