Diarmuid Whelan struck a magnificent 10 points as Laois ended Kildare’s reign as Leinster and All-Ireland U20 champions at the first stage in St Conleth’s Park last night on Tuesday evening.

A five-year jail term with the last year suspended was imposed on a man who set fire to two cars outside a house in Glanmire but said the owners had nothing to fear from him as it was a mistake and he had burned the wrong vehicles.

A Tusla child and family agency employee who was caught with thousands of child pornography images claimed to gardaí that he downloaded them in an effort to figure out paedophiles and sex offenders as part of his work.

A "naive" man who made a “catastrophic error of judgment” by opening the gates of his father’s quarry and allowing the IRA to take explosives away has avoided an immediate jail sentence.

Cork city’s Clancy’s bar is set to rise again, in time for its 195th birthday, part of a c€3.5/€4m total investment by its new consortium of owners.

Waterford and Limerick are still alive in the Munster MFC after last night’s error-ridden stalemate in Dungarvan. Déise full forward Aaron Ryan struck two late points to level matters for the fourth time in a game that featured 53 frees.

Captain Kyle Shelly kicked 2-8 (2-2 from play) as a strong, skilful and speedy Tipperary had the two points wrapped up by half-time.

Bees are under threat in Ireland, but a handful of experts are now marshalling an army of volunteers all over the island to protect these miniature wonders, writes Amy Lewis.

A data-driven game uses cognitive training and brainwaves to improve attention levels in children, writes Trish Dromey.

Elden has smartly landscaped, walled-in back gardens, paved terrace/patio, and much more, says Tommy Barker.

A bizarre plan to get shot dead or sent to a psychiatric hospital saw a man arming himself with a hammer and knives in a Garda station to provoke a response from armed gardaí.

A West Cork man accused of breaking his best friend’s cheekbone with a punch to the face after drinking 15 Jaegerbombs, five or six bottles of Heineken, and 10 to 12 shots of tequila has been acquitted.

A recently relet restaurant in Cork city centre, between the GPO and St Patrick’s St, and part of a corner-set property with two other tenants earning €150,000 combined per annum, is for sale, priced at €2.1m.

A West Cork man who denied fracturing his best friend’s cheekbone with a punch to the face on a night out in Union Hall sent a text saying: “Hey lad, sorry about last night. I don’t know what happened. I’ll pay your hospital bill. Sorry.”

A brick was used to beat a man around the head as his attacker left him bleeding on the ground crawling away to get medical help.

Sentencing of a man who smashed a patrol van with a lump hammer and produced knives in a Garda station, hoping he would be shot dead, was adjourned yesterday for a psychiatric report.

Latest: Dublin City University says it is in the early stages of planning for the construction of an extra 850 bedspaces on their Glasnevin and All Hallows campuses.

APARTHOTEL use is mooted for a Cork bar and entertainment complex, just put up for sale and with almost 200 years of trading history in the heart of the city centre.

There are still a number of rogue crisis pregnancy agencies in operation despite a HSE crackdown, it has been claimed.

The debate on the Eighth Amendment has prompted a surge in the number of people accessing post-abortion counselling.

A man has been jailed for two and a half years for the “insidious and frightening” harassment of a woman at her workplace.

Amid a sea of human misery there were heartwarming moments: The arrival of a new life and migrants singing happy birthday to a 21-year-old sailor who was happy to forego celebrating his milestone day to ensure they were safe.

A CRACKING good quay- and harbour-fronting site in the heart of top tourist town Kinsale has come to market, with huge redevelopment scope.

Trish Dromey reports on a beautiful dwelling with attractive views of the Bandon Valley

Gardaí in Carrigaline, Co Cork, searched the home of a young man who was never in trouble before and found €31,000 worth of cocaine stashed under his bed.

Hot on the heels of the circa €4m investment sale of the former Pavilion retail unit on Cork city’s prime shopping thoroughfare, St Patrick’s Street, comes another section of the 1921-built ex-cinema.

A father whose four-year-old daughter died found himself facing sentencing yesterday on a charge of assault causing harm to a man he met in Cork City in the hours after the funeral.

A woman facing jail for the drunken neglect of her children went back on the drink on Christmas Eve and stole a purse — and yesterday she was remanded in custody for a month pending the sentencing for neglect.

Ballydonoghue 5-9 St Senan’s 0-8: Before the start of yesterday’s North Kerry SFC final, Raymond McGibney of the Irish Defence Forces stood underneath the tricolour and read out the 1916 proclamation. The Ballydonoghue rising, joint-manager Denis Lynch would tell us afterwards, was five years in the making and ended with a first divisional title in almost a quarter of a century.

Those in the hinterland of North Kerry are billing it as the game of the year.

The search for new restaurant outlets in Cork city centre is seeing new arrivals cannibalise older traders and throws up lifespan questions for some long-established eating houses.

The event will take place tonight, Tuesday 08 November.

A judge is considering jailing a social worker after she put the names of children who were never in care on a HSE register in order to defraud the State of nearly €100,000.

It is four years since Kieran Behan expressed the hope that his historic appearance at the Olympic Games in his hometown of London would act as a springboard for the sport of gymnastics in Ireland. Signs are that it has certainly helped.

The number of medical card holders taking oral contraceptives has more than doubled since 2009, according to the HSE.

Mother of six faces charges of child neglect following blackout

The number of Irish women travelling to Britain for an abortion has almost halved in the past 14 years.

Dublin Institute of Technology will be celebrating Brendan Behan with a public lecture and launching the DIT Brendan Behan Award next Monday.