We live in a Suicide Box – a horrible phrase, but an apt metaphor for how we live today, says author Lucy Costigan.

It has been a hectic afternoon at the Palms Casino for Catherine Costigan.

Tipperary SFC final replay

Neighbours fought in vain to save a 55-year-old wheelchair-user who died in a suspected arson attack at his home in Bray, Co Wicklow, early yesterday.

The son of a woman murdered in 2002 wants a range of minimum sentences of 15 to 30 years and whole-life terms for murderers, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

An Irish student invaded the pitch after a recent Man United game – and got taken down hard.

Tipperary GAA chairman Sean Nugent has accused the Gaelic Players Association of hampering his county’s fundraising initiatives in the USA.

Former solicitor Thomas Byrne has been convicted of stealing €52m from the banks and defrauding 13 clients out of their houses or money.

Former solicitor Thomas Byrne said he engaged in several “unorthodox” deals with clients to transfer their houses into his name, but denies engaging in fraud.

Former solicitor Thomas Byrne has denied forging the signature of a client's daughter on a deed transferring their family home in Walkinstown over to him.

An alleged victim of former solicitor Thomas Byrne has described her “horror” at discovering he had transferred her family home into his name.

Keith Costigan is still on Dublin time, having just returned to Los Angeles from a trip home.

A paediatrician has told the trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby, that the child had suffered severe brain damage.

POOR Aodhan Ó Riordain. Last week, the Labour party TD personified the dilemma haunting his party.

Wexford handed Tipperary a 15-point mauling in this Allianz Division 3 NFL ame at Wexford Park yesterday.

ACE forward Barry Grogan helped himself to 3-3 at the Clonmel Sportsfield yesterday as Tipperary demolished Waterford IT by 22 points to book their place in the semi-finals of the McGrath Cup.

AS treasurer Eamonn Buckley told delegates after the 2008 accounts showed almost a 50% jump from the previous year’s figures: “You won’t have success without cost.”

LIMERICK and Wexford have reacted strongly against the decision to restructure the Allianz Hurling League from next year.

CHAMPIONS Shamrock Rovers put bottom club Drogheda to the sword with an utterly convincing performance at Hunky Dorys Park last night.

JOHN DILLON scored in each half as Sligo Rovers registered their first home win of the season at the Showgrounds last night.

Drogheda United 2 Derry City 2

AS a Tipperary man, former county chairman John Costigan took great pleasure in reading outgoing selector Eamon O’Shea’s interview with The Irish Examiner before Christmas.

TYRONE’S participation in the Dr McKenna Cup was thrown into doubt last night following the tragic death of team manager Mickey Harte’s daughter Michaela while on honeymoon in Mauritius.

JOHN MISKELLA has been recalled by Cork for tomorrow’s All-Ireland second round football qualifier against Cavan in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

TOMORROW in Semple Stadium, Robbie Costigan finds himself leading the Tipperary football fight from the back.

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LAST week was the 30th anniversary of Charlie Haughey’s election as Taoiseach for the first time, but the occasion seemed to pass without notice in the media. Maybe it is a measure of how low he has descended in the eyes of the public. Although he had always been acutely conscious of carving out a place in history for himself, it seems his reputation is now in tatters.

The Murphy report into the rape and molestation of 320 children by 46 priests in the Dublin Archdiocese has found the Church and a former Garda Commissioner covered up abuse.

The Catholic hierarchy in Ireland was granted immunity to cover up child sex abuse among paedophile priests in Dublin, a damning report revealed today.

FORMER Tipperary chairman John Costigan revealed that “one of the best discussions the county board has had this year” took place in Thurles before delegates gave the interim agreement a resounding thumbs up.

CORK senior football manager Conor Counihan insists he has no problem with the ban on collective winter training for intercounty teams.

World renowned playwright Brian Friel joined the walk of fame at one of Dublin’s top theatres today.

Tipperary football manager John Evans has made four changes to his side for this Saturday's All-Ireland SFC qualifier against Louth, at Drogheda.

Limerick 0 St. Patrick’s Athletic 1

THE TO-DO list was pretty long in Semple Stadium, but over eighteen months they ticked all the boxes Floodlights.

ONE of the more interesting motions debated at the week-end GAA Congress came at the very end of the Saturday session and, through an oversight, wasn’t even included in the agenda. Dealing with the topical issue with the age eligibility of young players for the various championship grades, it came from Tipperary. And, according to board chairman John Costigan it was “about the survival” of 25 clubs in the county.

THE rumour was this: that Fine Gael had a ‘bombshell’ about the Taoiseach’s finances which it planned to launch at Fianna Fáil on Day 21 of the election campaign.

Reigning champions Kerry coasted into the Munster SFC final as they were untroubled by Tipperary in a 0-17 to 1-05 triumph in Killarney this afternoon.

A Kilkenny man who murdered a 36-year-old mother of two at her home lost his appeal against the conviction today.

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THE time has come to stop the “madness” of over-training players, said outgoing Tipperary Chairman Donal Shanahan in his address to yesterday’s annual convention in Thurles.