A 53-year-old Dublin mechanic will be sentenced next week for killing his partner after she caught him trying to shoot himself.

AN Irish family on holidays in Spain was viciouslyattacked by a mob of fellow Irish holidaymakers because one of them was wearing a Cork football jersey.

IN highly dramatic fashion, Kinsale Community School won the Cork County Vocational Schools A Ladies Football Championship for the first time after a thrilling victory over Boherbue Comprehensive at Kilmichael yesterday.

The body of a Waterford woman whose husband is on trial for her murder would have been dumped in a river not far from where her body was found two weeks after her disappearance a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

West End musicals Mary Poppins and The Producers lead the nominations for this year’s Laurence Olivier Awards.

LIMERICK Golf Club, represented by Juan Fitzgerald and Aisling Noone, held off stern opposition from 39 other clubs to win the Irish Examiner-sponsored Munster Mixed Foursomes Cup Final at Muskerry yesterday.