Nina McFeely, wife of bankrupt Priory Hall developer Tom McFeely, has asked a judge to allow her continue living in their €10m Dublin 4 home until one of her children completes his Leaving Cert in June next year.

“Human life is sacred and the taking of human life by any group, for any reason cannot be justified,” Fr Michael Canny said yesterday following the murder of Andrew Allen in Buncrana.

Killers who shot dead a man in Donegal are imposing the law of the jungle, a priest who knew the victim has said.

LEINSTER’S U18 schools side left Cork with a victory over Munster to their names last night, just as their predecessors did 111 years ago.

Former Cork hurling boss Gerald McCarthy was told he would get a bullet in the back of the head if he did not stand down as manager, when he received a threatening phone call Cork District Court heard today.

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PRESENTATION Brothers, Cork were ultimately comfortable winners over Ard Scoil Rís at Musgrave Park, Cork yesterday — but not before they were made to dig deep by a team who won their place in the last eight through the back door system.

SO CONGRATULATIONS to Paul Doolin on being named Philips Sports Manager of 2007.

Environmentalists today mounted a fresh legal challenge to force the state to halt work on a multi-million euro motorway through the ancient Hill of Tara.

An ancient burial ground near the Hill of Tara in Co Meath was razed to the ground during overnight work on the controversial M3 motorway, environmentalists claimed today.

RADIO star Gerry Ryan has received a major reprimand from the broadcasting authorities for holding a crude discussion about sex toys during his morning show on 2FM last April.

A TWO-year-old child with a previously undiagnosed congenital bowel problem died just over 24 hours after developing severe stomach pains, an inquest heard yesterday.

A distraught mother told today she knew something was terribly wrong when her two-year-old daughter woke with the fear of God on her face complaining about a terrible pain in her stomach.

SOME like it hot and those that do yesterday voted a Dublin hotel that houses Marilyn Monroe’s bed the country’s top spot for love.