Clare’s Jamie Shanahan has been ruled out of the Munster senior hurling championship after undergoing surgery to alleviate a long-standing back issue.

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Two Chinese "bandits" have been given seven-year sentences for their "brutal and vicious" armed robbery on female fellow nationals in which they stabbed a garda who had helped foil their criminal escapade.

Police officers in New York shocked by the lack of protection for gardaí are offering to send over their spare anti-stab vests.

Gardaí today reiterated their call for anti-stab vests to be introduced before lives were lost on duty.