Former GAA President Christy Cooney is set to take over the management of his home club, Youghal, for the coming year.

Despite winning 32 Cork senior hurling titles, Blackrock have only won four county U21 championships.

A doorman guarding a republican social function at the Widow Scallan’s pub in Dublin was shot dead while trying to fend off a loyalist bomb attack, an inquest heard today.