Change is necessary if the body is to achieve its aim of streamlining and simplifying a complex and confusing array of legal entities, writes Colleen Cleary

At last count, Paudie Murray’s backroom team numbered 16. That’s a fair number of lieutenants to have in your corner. Then again, it’s a fair operation he’s running.

Laura Treacy may be inexperienced when it comes to top-flight camogie but the 20-year-old has a wise head on those young shoulders.

The jury in the Elaine O’Hara murder trial was shown a photograph of a punctured and bloodstained mattress, which gardaí found following the discovery of her remains in September 2013.

The jury in the Graham Dwyer trial has seen a photograph of Elaine O’Hara’s punctured and blood-stained mattress, which Gardaí found following the discovery of her remains in September 2013.

SuperValu is aiming to create 300 jobs this year, as part of an ongoing expansion drive.

A contact centre company, founded with nine staff less than two years ago aims to recruit another 100 employees at a jobs fair today and tomorrow.

A call centre has delivered an early Christmas present of 250 jobs to an unemployment blackspot.

Two hundred and fifty new jobs have been created in Co Wexford.

Hectic times for Cork camogie star Eimear O’Sullivan but she wouldn’t change it for the world.

Castlemagner 0-14 Rathpeacon 1-7

Markets calmed yesterday as investors’ concerns eased a little about the uncertainties created by potential changes in the French and Dutch governments.

JOBS Minister Richard Bruton has warned that the Government can’t create new jobs and it is up to successful companies to come up with their own plans and develop their own markets in order to expand.

Some 250 new positions are being created in Waterford through the expansion of Irish company Eishtec.

A WATERFORD man accused of murdering his wife told gardaí he would not have brought the man she kissed back to the house the night before she disappeared, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A Waterford man accused of murdering his wife told gardaí he would not have brought the man she kissed back to the house the night before she disappeared a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

THE battle for Fitzgibbon Cup semi-final places commences this afternoon with games in LIT Grounds, UL Grounds and Dangean, while the fourth quarter-final is fixed for St. Pats Grounds, Drumcondra on Thursday.

THE Cork Ladies Mini-Marathon should be given a more realistic title.

ALL the pointers tomorrow are that Kilkenny will be far too strong for Tipperary in the All-Ireland U-21 hurling final at Croke Park (1.30pm).

FOLLOWING champion Newtownshandrum’s opening round Cork County SHC victory over Bride Rovers on Friday, Cloyne, the beaten finalists for the last two years, got down to business in fine style at Ballynoe yesterday when beating Killeagh 4-10 to 3-6.

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT are yet to decide whether Eoin Kelly plays in today’s Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final against UCC.

UCD 1-12 Birr 1-7

BIRR manager John Goode will be praying that Brian Whelahan has not aggravated a groin strain after taking part in a charity walk with other GAA legends Eoin Liston, Jack O’Shea and Henry Shefflin in Malawi.

Graigue-Ballycallan team mates John Hoyne and Eddie Brennan have earned recalls to the Kilkenny starting line-up for tomorrow's All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Galway (Croke Park, 3.30pm).

Brian Cody's Kilkenny have reclaimed the Leinster SHC title - beating holders Wexford in an action-packed final played out in front of 35,010 spectators at Croke Park.

Kilkenny 6-28 Offaly 0-15

Kilkenny 3-20 Clare 0-15

Kilkenny 3-20 Clare 0-15

Kikenny 3-26, Wexford 0-5

Kilkenny 3-25 Wexford 0-03

Cork 1-11 Kilkenny 1-14

Kilkenny 1-08 Clare 2-13

Waterford 0-17 Kilkenny 2-16

Waterford 0-17 Kilkenny 2-16

Babs Keating's UCD side kept on track for Leinster hurling glory as Tipperary's Diarmuid Fitzgerald hit the only goal in their 1-20 to 0-11 AIB Club quarter final defeat of Portlaoise at O'Moore Park.

The Kemmy Business School (KBS) at the University of Limerick has announced its first business advisory board.

Two men accused of murdering a woman in a neighbouring apartment in Cork were heard whispering in their flat before she was killed and were seen leaving the block afterwards, a court heard today.

Mallow2-13 St Vincent’s2-9