A YOUTH has appeared in an Australian court charged with seriously assaulting an Irish tourist, who is in a stable but “unresponsive” condition in hospital.

DE LA SALLE goalkeeper Sean Whitty was the shoot-out hero in Arklow yesterday as he saved a sudden death spot-kick before scoring one of his own to secure his school a place in the FAI’s Tony O’Neill Senior Cup final on March 22.

WITH the swine flu scares that rampaged through the Down squad two weeks ago having subsided, the Mourne County are finally able to play the last of the All-Ireland MFC quarter-finals, as they clash against Dublin in Kingspan Breffni Park this afternoon. Manager Mark Turley insists his squad are back to full health.

A Ballyfermot man who was arrested after gardai heard he was bragging to his friends about his involvement in the 'Love Ulster' riots has received a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A RETIRED consultant who performed a sterilisation procedure on a mother of five, who later gave birth to two more children, told the High Court yesterday that, at the time he had completed the operation, he was satisfied that it had achieved its objective.

A man who was sacked from a Kildare company three days after his mother-in-law died has been awarded €5,000 in compensation.