Like Len Gaynor, Willie Walsh, former Bishop of Killaloe, is a Tipperary man who played his part in Clare’s hurling breakthrough. Retired now, he has questioned everything, from his faith to the meaning of it all. But never his devotion to the game of hurling.

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FOR several years Sean McGinley has been heading across the Atlantic from June to December to shoot a crime series on CBC, Canada’s national television station. 

A woman who was in labour drove her car into a roundabout to grab the attention of motorists.

International horsewoman and dressage coach Anne-Marie Dunphy has settled a dispute over the alleged unlawful seizure of her sole horse transporter, the High Court was told yesterday.

One of the country’s leading international horsewomen and dressage coaches, Anne-Marie Dunphy, has told a judge that her professional career has been jeopardised by the unlawful seizure of her only horse transporter.

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All we know is Mrs Doyle would not be impressed.

ACC Bank has secured €6.5 million summary judgment orders against a Co Westmeath couple over unpaid development loans.

The High Court has approved a €4.5m settlement to a 14-year-old Sligo boy with cerebral palsy and severe spastic quadriplegia.

THIS is a very belated note of praise for the excellent teamwork of Sgt Adrian Lomasney in Midleton and gardaí Pat Grace and Karla Fay of Youghal.

The Doyle family has purchased more than half the total stock in Jury’s Doyle Hotel Group.

THE Doyle family won control of the Jurys hotel group last night after agreeing to buy the 8.3% stake in the company owned by reclusive builder Liam Carroll.

BUILDER Sean Dunne has hired a top corporate finance executive as he weighs up a takeover bid of the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group.

PROPERTY developer Sean Dunne has added to his Jurys Doyle stake in a further move to safeguard his attempt to buy the hotel group’s €260 million Ballsbridge site.

THE Doyle family is expected to vote for the sale of the 4.8 acres Ballsbridge site to property developer Sean Dunne for €260 million at the Extraordinary General Meeting on 27 September.

THE Doyle family may vote against the €260 million sale of the Jurys hotel group’s land in Dublin to builder Sean Dunne.

FURTHER share purchases in Jurys Doyle took place yesterday but, at this stage, the Doyle family and developer Sean Dunne have a controlling interest in the group between them.

THE Doyle and Beatty families could prove pivotal in the fight for control of the Jurys Doyle Hotels Group.

A trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard that the deceased’s blood was found on the clothing of his older brother, who is charged with the Waterford man’s murder.

SKELLIGS has its selling points in abundance it's a solid and sound house, with a sought-after, salubrious suburban address.

THE prime suspect for the murder of two female patients in the grounds of a Dublin psychiatric hospital in 1997 has refused to attend an inquest into their deaths.

LONG before the names of Brian and Frank Lohan hit public consciousness, long before the days of wall-to-wall sporting hype, the name Gus Lohan was almost as renowned as that of his two hurling sons today.