Families are to get a three-month reprieve from water charges, with the first bills due to arrive in April instead of January, as previously planned.

After the demise of the idiosyncratic alt-pop band Talulah Does The Hula a few years ago, Paula Cullen, Caoimhe Derwin, Lauren Kerchner and Jessie Ward found themselves at a crossroads.

A serial garda impersonator who stopped Dublin motorists for speeding and having no lights has been given an 18-month suspended sentence for possessing unlicensed firearms and child porn.

ANDREW THOMPSON, one of the three “old men” in the Shannon team, remains one of the most formidable forces in the club game in this country.

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Harlequins will have Ajay Derwin and Reece Spee at half back for their final day Ulster joust with Ballymena in Division One of the AIB League.

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DOMINIC MALONE used the presence of Munster’s assistant coach Brian Hickey to press his claims for provincial recognition at Thomond Park on Saturday.

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