The Korean Peninsula may be the most dangerous place in the world with the threat swapping between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un ratcheting up tensions in the region. Brian Keane is chairperson of Seoul Gaels GAA club which lies 35 miles from the border with North Korea. He tells Colm O’Connor about life — and gaelic games — in the Far East in these tense times

A 25-year-old man who left a hard-working Polish father of four with a permanent disability, has been handed a 10-year sentence in Tralee.

Members of a Polish family in Tralee suffered terrible consequences when they intercepted a burglar of Russian origin, a sentencing hearing was told.

A law graduate has been sentenced for five years in prison with 18 months suspended for setting fire to a medical student in a Galway nightclub three years ago.

Gardaí yesterday refuted a suggestion they had tipped off an RTÉ radio programme about an early morning incident in Co Kerry in which a father and son were stabbed.

A 23-year-old man has been remanded in custody in connection with an alleged stabbing of a father and son in Tralee shortly before 6am last Tuesday.

It’s been four months since our GAA season began here in Seoul, Korea and we have reached the midway point in our season.

As usual, Seoul Station was the meeting point early Saturday morning as we prepared to make the two and a half hour train trip to Ulsan for the second round of the Korean league.

GALWAY junior champions Naomh Pádraig, Clonbur eased their way into an All-Ireland club final with a facile victory in Carrick-on-Shannon yesterday.

A BIG funeral for a giant of a man.

The jury in the trial of a Dublin accountant accused of assaulting a former Ericsson engineer leaving him blind in one eye has been discharged having failed to reach a verdict.

A Dublin accountant has denied he shoved a former Ericsson engineer’s head through a glass door at a house party four years ago.

An accountant has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for assaulting a former telecommunications company engineer who is now blind in one eye.

REIGNING Waterford senior football champions Ballinacourty advanced impressively into the quarter-finals when they overwhelmed Kilrossanty 3-14 to 0-7 at Bohadoon in one of six games played over the weekend.

FARMERS have been urged by Liam Alyward MEP to support the Lisbon Treaty (May 6).

THE Martin Donnelly/Sean Kelly professional cycling team will make its Irish debut in this weekend’s five stage Credit Union Rás Mumhan in Co. Kerry.

Two Sinn Féin members have occupied a petrol station in Dublin in protest at the jailing of five gas pipeline protesters.

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JULIAN WINN, a former winner of the FBD Insurance Rás, will have a powerful new ally when he bids for a second title on Sunday week, with Yanto Barker an exciting addition to the Wales Stena team.

A NEW chapter is about to be added to Brian Keane’s incredible sporting life story.

PAUL GRIFFIN (Earl of Desmond) will don the race leader’s yellow jersey with a miniscule time advantage of .18 of a second over fellow Kerry cyclist Eugene Moriarty (Cycleways.com) when Killorglin Credit Union Rás Mumhan enters the final day that will decide the overall title over three laps of the 15-mile Beaufort circuit followed by four laps of the 13-mile Donal McKenna Circuit.

The postal row in the Drogheda area has been referred to the Labour Relations Commission.

RESCUE services were last night investigating a report that a light aircraft had crashed into mountains in Co Kerry.