Dunlop champion Declan Boyle is an absentee from Sunday’s third round encounter the Seven Oaks Hotel Carlow Rally.

WITH immigration levels once again mirroring those of the 1980s, a new generation of Irish people has been forced to seek employment overseas. This Christmas, less than half of them will get to come home and celebrate the festive season.

The HSE was accused of preparing an “ambush report” against a creche facing eight breaches of childcare regulations.

THE death of a 19-year-old man from a suspected cocaine overdose and subsequent multiple seizures of narcotics in a rural part of north Cork has accelerated an anti-drug programme in the area.