They’ve broken in and wreaked havoc by racing stolen bikes through its bustling aisles, right under the nose of Conor’s long-suffering fishmonger mother.

Orla Fitzgerald is from Cork, and can be seen in The Young Offenders on RTÉ2 tonight, where she plays the wife of school principal Barry Walsh (PJ Gallagher).

IF the misogyny, the bigotry, the homophobia, the racism, the bullying, the hatred, the dangerous ignorance, the xenophobic nationalism and irrational hostility that make up far too much of today’s online commentary were expressed in the columns of this or any other newspaper lawyers would demand and get the kind of damages that would put the survival of any traditional media platform in jeopardy.

So there’s this little oul’ wan on the beach, it being summer when the event happens. She is elderly and small, so it is perfectly fair to describe her as a little oul’ wan. 

The Fine Gael TD abused online by colleague Barry Walsh has welcomed his resignation from the party’s national executive council after a damning 48-hour public backlash.

IN the shorthand of our time, an art form all but perfected by our American cousins, country music is described as “three chords and the truth”.

This is a problem far bigger than Barry Walsh, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

Controversial Fine Gael member Barry Walsh has resigned from the party's executive council with immediate effect amid an avalanche of criticism over his Twitter comments about party colleagues.

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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has declared that “nasty” slurs targetting women online by a senior Fine Gael figure are “not acceptable” and debate should be conducted in a responsible way.

We have blindly embraced social media without fully knowing how to handle it and the outing of Barry Walsh’s online behaviour has proven that, writes Elaine Loughlin.

A renewable energy firm refused planning for a solar farm close to Waterford Airport has appealed the decision to An Bord Pleanála.

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Small, well-presented and seeking new prospects... maybe more? That’s the possible sales pitch for Daly’s bar in Co Clare’s Ennistymon, long associated with the family of famed Clare matchmaker Willie Daly, and freshly up for grabs.

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With the publication of the Panama papers we are reminded once again of the contrast between the lives of a rich elite and the rest of humanity.

Dan Kiely, CEO of Voxpro, (Irish Examiner, April 2) said “the decision of the electorate in February’s general election was abundantly clear. The people want change and stability.”

Barry Walsh backs up his support for retention and ‘reform’ of the Seanad by quoting the situation in Scandinavian countries [Letters, March 24].

Another leaders debate has concluded without any reference to the most critical issue of our time, climate change. 

The most significant part of Michael Clifford’s excellent tribute to Joe Higgins was his description of the exchange between Deputy Higgins and Prof Patrick Honohan at the banking enquiry. 

Barry Walsh (Letters, January 27) is correct to point out that “Double speak around Putin shouldn’t surprise”.

Several passages of the judgement in the recent abortion case in the High Court of Northern Ireland make for extraordinary reading.

Barry Walsh ( Letters, January 17 ) is misled if he thinks that what he calls “illegal settlements” – ie Jewish towns and villages in Judea-Samaria (aka the “West Bank”) – formed part of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians. The Accords have nothing to say about the subject. The whole question was left to be discussed in future final status negotiations.

Without irony, the Israeli deputy ambassador lists apparent violations of the Oslo accords, which she says justify the withholding of tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority (Letters, January 10). 

Former European Youth gold medallist Gary Cully came out on top won in the clash of the Kildare lightweights at last night’s National Intermediate Championships finals at Dublin’s National Stadium when the St David’s BC southpaw beat Hughie Joyce of the St Michael’s Athy BC.

We are in a brief hiatus in the negotiations between the EU and US on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). 

You have to reach back almost 40 years for Shannon Rangers football fairytales. The division — so far into north Kerry that Clare is closer than Tralee and Limerick is as close as Listowel — have more stories about carping than cups.

HE still spins around Killarney on his bike at 55, looking as fresh as paint, uncreased by the stresses of life and Kerry’s roller-coaster ride to Croke Park.

An undercover garda who posed as a boy-racer at a late night car rally said that if one of the cars performing ‘doughnuts’ had spun out of control, "it would have resulted in carnage".

With its latest announcement of settlement expansion in the West Bank, Israel has again demonstrated that any apparently positive statements it makes regarding a two state solution are disingenuous. 

I’m sorry to read Mr Barry Walsh took such exception (Letters, August 28) to my comments that Mr Kenny is simply not up to the job he was elected to do.

Desmond Fitzgerald’s latest, tiresome personal attack on Taoiseach Enda Kenny fails to mask the bizarre logic of his views on abortion (Letters, 28 August).

Amid increased civilian causalities in Gaza, the best the UN and US can do is "express concern".

Judging by the rhetoric being used by both sides after the discovery of the bodies of the abducted Israeli teenagers, violence will again be the method of choice for Hamas and the Israeli government.

A society should be judged on how it looks after its most vulnerable, and on this score Ireland is failing.

I sat down to read Health Minister James Reilly’s opus on universal health insurance, to see if thought had been put into improving healthcare delivery.