A pensioner who brutally raped a six-year-old girl in 1979 will be jailed for two years after prison authorities assess how his medical care needs will be met in custody.

There you are, on the beach, when a Hammerhead shark swims right up to say hello.

If you weren’t there, you’d have missed the send-off Joe McQuillan got from St Conleth’s Park on Saturday night.

Standing outside the dressing rooms in St Conleth’s Park on Saturday night, Daniel Flynn made his way from the field, a relieved and slightly sunburnt man.

THE GAELIC Players Association last night claimed the Leinster CounciI decision to press ahead with Sunday’s provincial quarter-final between Rathnew and the Dublin champions shows “scant regard for the physical and psychological well-being of the players involved.”