What happens the county player whose club is knocked out in the first round of the championship?

Mike Quirke and Anthony Daly are celebrating the GAA's return to play plan, but say there are many questions to answer.

Sinn Féin TD Pa Daly has defended his attendance at the funeral of a member of the party in west Kerry, around 50 kms from the TD’s home in Tralee.

A slimmed-down Irish couple has written a bestselling cookery book featuring healthy versions of indulgent meals, says Clodagh Finn.

My hands are in good shape - some people might think it’s because you’d need to be going into tackles to injure them in the first place, to damage them - but there's not too much gone wrong with them over the years.

A Corkman stole a Renault Fluence and used it as a place to sleep and he was today jailed for eight months for the crime.

The Austin Stacks GAA club in Kerry has taken issue with a suggestion in this newspaper by our columnist and All-Ireland winning captain Anthony Daly that hurling doesn’t get a fair shake on Tralee’s famed Rock Street.

The head of the private nursing home sector has criticised the lack of intervention from the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 pandemic was sweeping through care facilities.

Tadhg Daly, CEO of Nursing Homes Ireland, has said that Covid-19 has brought huge levels of upset, sadness and worry in nursing homes across the country.

Tadhg Daly will appear before the special committee to address what went wrong in nursing homes.

Nursing home residents and their carers were left “isolated” by key State bodies at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the Dáil’s Covid-19 committee will be told.

All these years on, those cheeky boyos below in Lixnaw in north Kerry still can’t resist having a go at me.

Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) has called for a Covid-19 testing roadmap to clarify the testing regime that will be required to protect staff and residents in nursing homes over the next 18 months.

A 75-year-old man was tied up and locked in a room in his own house for 15 hours and was only rescued when his sister called to check if he was alright.

Thirty black sacks of domestic rubbish were dumped in a cemetery in Cork and a district court judge said it was not fair on families visiting the graves of loved ones.

The mental health charity's funding has been badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic similar to other charities in the sector and has led to an overall budget shortfall of more than €6.5m for the charity.

The University of Birmingham estimates the Irish backlog to be 16,000, which includes cancer operations.

President Michael D Higgins has said it will be awful if people forget the heroic efforts of frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic and went back to the way it was before when they were not always fully valued.

Testing results are not returned to nursing homes for a number of days while sufficient access to personal protective equipment (PPE) continues to be a problem.

Bail was refused for a former Israeli soldier accused of intimidating a witness by allegedly threatening to kill the owner of a Cork off-licence and burn him out of the premises where he previously stole a bottle of wine.

A Cork-based food safety company has launched a new hygiene standard in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which it says will help food businesses to reopen and provide greater reassurance to customers and staff.

John Daly has brought proceedings against Dublin-based Ardstone Capital claiming he was subjected to a sham redundancy with a view to denying him his entitlement. Ardstone denies his claims.

Asylum seekers who displayed symptoms of the coronavirus at the Co Kerry direct provision centre hit by an outbreak were left in their shared accommodation with their roommates pending a positive test, it has been claimed.

An Independent TD has said he, as well as businesses and community leaders in Caherciveen, Co Kerry, want the Department of Justice to move residents of a direct provision centre where there has been an outbreak of Covid-19 back to “where they brought them from”.

The staffing crisis in nursing homes is “escalating” as the promised redeployment of personnel to tackle Covid-19 is not happening.

The National Lottery has this afternoon confirmed that the winning ticketholder of last Saturday night’s €9,772,175 Lotto Jackpot ticket sold in Killarney has made contact this afternoon.

The second order of personal protective equipment (PPE) from China has been doubled to €130m and will start arriving this week.

Lottery lightning struck twice in a week for a popular Killarney supermarket, proving it has the Midas touch.

The chief executive of Nursing Homes Ireland, Tadhg Daly has said that the shortage of GP cover for nursing homes is “quite localised” and is “not a widespread problem.”

By now, Nicky English’s facial expression after scoring a late point in Tipp’s 18-point hammering of Clare in the 1993 Munster final has been interpreted as much as that of the Mona Lisa.

As nursing homes find themselves in the frontline in the battle against Covid-19, Nursing Homes Ireland chief executive Tadhg Daly gives his perspective on how the crisis has been handled and how his upbringing influenced his strong work ethic.

Anthony Daly opted for John Mullane over Nicky English in his Munster ‘Railway Cup’ dream team of the last 30 years but says the Tipp great would be on his all-time selection.

A Dublin care home for the elderly has had 11 Covid-19-related deaths within the last two weeks.

The availability of Personal Protective Equipment or PPE for nursing homes is still “patchy” and will be raised again with Health Minister Simon Harris today amid some concern that deaths due to Covid-19 in nursing homes may be under-reported.

Consultant geriatrician Dr Emer Ahern has called for more nursing staff to be re-deployed to support staffing shortages in nursing homes during the Covid-19 crisis.

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, says his team is trying to stop the virus getting into nursing homes in the first place.

Nursing homes “have yet to see the benefits” of commitments made regarding Covid-19 testing and the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE), according to the representative body for the sector.

As nursing homes strive to contain the spread of coronavirus it emerged that more than four out of ten are waiting over 10 days for test results.

Food banks are bracing for a further rise in the number of families having to avail of their services as they start to feel the full pinch of the Covid-19 shutdown.

The country’s School Meals programme is continuing and demand is greater than ever, says Jess Casey

A knockout hurling championship could be a glorious celebration at the end of the coronavirus shutdown, says Anthony Daly.

Gardaí have recorded a year on year increase of around 16% in the reporting of domestic abuse incidents between 2019 and 2020.

The Health Minister is meeting with Nursing Homes Ireland this afternoon to discuss the number of cases among the elderly.

Health Minister Simon Harris said restrictions put on people to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak cannot stay in place for very long and he is concerned about the nation’s mental health.