AMID all the usual defendants who appear in the dock during the normal daily business of the Dublin District Court, Seán FitzPatrick stood out like a sore banker.

“WHERE are all the men?”

A MIDLANDS coroner has warned that suicide is “rampant” in rural society as yesterday alone he heard inquests into the deaths of five people who had taken their own lives.

WEXFORD ploughman John Whelan became the first man from Ireland to win the European Reversible Ploughing Contest at the weekend.

KILKENNY will be short ten of their All-Ireland winning squad for their opening Allianz NHL game against Galway at Pearse Stadium on Sunday.

Every suicide should get the same level of media coverage as a road accident to bring home the scale of the epidemic, a TD said today.

A factory security man has told the jury in the 'fake accident' trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that neither saw nor heard any indication of a major collision at the alleged scene.