GAA president Liam O’Neill has strongly defended his commitment to Gaelic football and admitted his shock at the reaction to his misinterpreted Congress comments.

A Cavan-based construction firm currently working on London’s 2012 Olympic Stadium could face a €6m fine for unsafe building site conduct which left an employee paralysed from the neck down.

An Bord Pleanala has given the green light to a controversial €115m commercial and housing development just outside Nenagh, Co Tipperary.