Mike Quirke’s Laois footballers recorded their first win of the campaign when they emerged with six-points to spare over Armagh at MW Hire O’Moore Park, Portlaoise, on Saturday evening.

People are being encouraged to play a greater role in their own healthcare.

The centralisation of driving licence production was branded an attack on rural Ireland yesterday, as the Road Safety Authority defended the new system as the cheapest for consumers.

LAST year’s beaten finalists St. Brendan’s, Tralee CBS, Limerick Colleges and newcomers DLS Macroom are the only schools definitely through to the knock out stages of the Corn Uí Mhuirí after Christmas.

Tralee CBS 0-16 Castletroy CS 2-5