The parents appear to be "excellent" parents whose objections are not based on religious or ideological grounds but because they do not accept their son's diagnosis or that he is as ill as his doctors maintain, Mr Justice Peter Kelly noted.

The GAA world yesterday began to pay its respects to Dublin football great Anton O’Toole, 68, following his death after a 15-month battle with cancer.

Over the coming weekends, luxury buses with complimentary wifi and mobile phone chargers will roll into county grounds all over Ireland.

A three-month jail term was imposed on a young Kerry man for his part in conning a middle-aged householder in Cork to pay €50 to clean gutters but then securing a total of €4,250 by deception.

Reigning Galway SHC champions Liam Mellows will face Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry in the quarter-finals this year.

The divided reaction to David Hickey’s interview carried in this newspaper on Saturday wasn’t unexpected.

An investigation into alleged blackmailing of a man using a gay dating site resulted in the accused pleading guilty yesterday to demanding thousands with menaces.

Upperchurch-Drombane caused a bit of a stir with a 0-20 to 1-13 win over a fancied but understrength Drom-Inch in the Tipperary SHC first round at Templetuohy on Saturday evening.

Just when it seemed hurling was entering a post-Kilkenny-Tipp era, the first national final of the year is… Kilkenny-Tipp. It’s something to relish, writes Kieran Shannon.

The morning after the madness of the day before and normality was holding sway in the heart of the city.

Bandon Grammar School 7 Crescent College Comprehensive 32: Holders Crescent College Comprehensive had to come from behind but still managed a fully deserved Clayton Hotels Munster Junior Schools win over Bandon Grammar in this second round “losers” tie at Musgrave Park yesterday.

Jake Morris finished with eight points as Nenagh CBS pulled away in the second-half to beat Castletroy College 1-20 to 1-13 in Newport.

Former Hill hero David Hickey believes this Dublin squad is special in more ways than one...

An appallingly mean theft by a Wexford man who travelled to Cork City and stole an 82-year-old woman’s handbag resulted in him having his jail sentence increased on appeal yesterday from six to eight months.

Galbally caused the shock of the weekend as they beat Clanwilliam in the Bank of Ireland Munster Junior Cup.

It was a day of shocks in the Bank of Ireland Munster Junior Cup as holders Shannon are knocked out by Cashel and both Muskerry and Midleton lost to sides in a lower division.

It was another exciting weekend at the top of Division 1 of the Munster Junior League.

Bandon came close to causing a major shock in Division 1 of the Munster Junior League against defending champions Clonmel. The second division champions were leading 7-6 at half time with a try from Chris Laidler which Richard Walsh converted.

A trembling 82-year-old Cork woman brought a courtroom to a standstill as she asked how the big strong men who told her they were robbing her could do what they did to old people or any people.

It was good to hear that old favourite Dan The Man, trained by David Hickey, will be given his chance to stand at stud, now that he has been retired from racing.

In his column entitled ‘Prochoice must be proactive ahead of campaign’, Shaun Connolly like the majority of the Irish media, is pushing for a secularised value-free Irish society.

False modesty may be something Jim Gavin can occasionally leave himself open to being accused of, but no such thing is at play when he insists that Kevin Heffernan’s team of the 70s will always hold pride of place in the Dublin football pantheon.

JIM Gavin quickly shot down comparisons between this current Dublin group and those from the glittering era of the 1970s.

Patients needing a pancreas transplant say they are none the wiser about their situation after Beaumont Hospital in Dublin issued a statement on the future of the country’s pancreas transplant programme.

It was an extra special moment for Síle Murphy and her family when they appeared together on RTÉ’s Late Late Show last night.

Three men appeared in Cork District Court yesterday on assault and damage charges arising out of an allegedly serious incident at a house in Bishopstown on St Patrick’s Day.

Longford u21s 1-17 Louth u21s 1-04: Longford advanced to the semi-finals of the Leinster U21 Championship for the third year in-a-row with 13 points to spare over Louth.

A man prompted by unrequited love to spy on a woman’s home was yesterday given an eight-month suspended jail sentence.

One David Hickey, with an address in Wales, was moved to put pen to paper after watching the recent England-Germany women’s international on television.

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Fewer than one in five Garda recruits who have started their training at the Garda College in Templemore are women, following a recruitment policy which attracted 25,000 applications.

Michael Clifford begins his article on the family law courts (June 23) by stating that the evolution of the family has added complications when relationships break down.

Trainer/rider Denis Hogan completed a double with odds-on favourite San Gabriel and Ocean Glandore at Ballinrobe last night.

Youghal are the Munster Club IHC champions following a titanic battle with Ballina at Mallow yesterday.

Ballina (Tipperary) 1-12 Dromin-Athlacca (Limerick) 0-14

If politicians doubt why they are reviled, all they have to do is look at the glaring contradictions between their rhetoric and the facts of Irish political life.

Two years ago, as an All-Ireland-winning selector, Dr David Hickey claimed Dublin had surpassed the county’s great 1970s team on which he featured.

Nemo Rangers 1-12 Bishopstown 1-08

Sanctioning doctors for failing to wash their hands has been dismissed as a “stupid suggestion” by the head of Beaumont Hospital’s transplantation unit.

Dublin defender Kevin Nolan has revealed the impact Type 1 diabetes has had on his inter-county career.

Your editorial (Aug 21) parsing the “pantomime” performance of the Seanad’s summer sitting, strikes a resolutely resonant ‘cluster-chord’ for the total overhaul of legislative process and statutory governance.

Bishopstown 4-11 CIT 1-09