He didn’t enjoy watching the last half hour of last Sunday’s epic Munster club final.

Despite a 2,000-strong petition by parishioners, a Limerick priest is to be transferred to another parish.

MORE matches, less training, and more marketing of games: that’s the plea from Limerick’s Niall Moran to GAA authorities ahead of tomorrow’s Munster championship clash with Waterford.

GRAPHIC media pictures taken at the scene of the hit-and-run that claimed the lives of two Irish women on a visit to Rome intensified the pain and loss of both families, mourners heard yesterday.

A MAJOR garda security operation will be in place in Askeaton today and tomorrow for the funeral of Kathleen McCarthy-O’Reilly.