Last Sunday saw the curtain come down on what was one of the more enjoyable and competitive national football league campaigns in recent memory.

A Co Leitrim man has lost his appeal aimed at allowing him seek permission to challenge the Yes result of the abortion referendum.

Gillian Treacy and her sons Ciarán and Sean spent the afternoon walking in the woods with the boys’ grandparents - a car crash on their way home devastated their family, and united a stunned community determined to help.

ADDRESSING the national conference of the Irish Planning Institute, Ciaran Tracey, planning officer with Leitrim County Council said if the economic conditions that prevailed in the last year do not pick up, it will take “about nine years to clear vacant housing stock in urban parts of the county and God knows how long elsewhere”.