Ben Dunne said: “I wouldn’t have it on my conscience to pay someone €203 a week and ask them to try to live on it.”

Siobhan Woods, Noelle Healy, Carla Rowe, and Sinead Aherne all raised green flags for the Sky Blues, who moved four points clear of the relegation spot after their victory.

Dating from the 1930s, this house is in one of the most sought after areas of Limerick city, writes Trish Dromey.

With 12 Leinster Schools Senior Cup titles, Belvo were favourites to prevail over the Jeremy Staunton-coached Castleknock.

The eagerly awaited TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, a documentary about much-loved rock star Phil Lynott and the story of how Ireland repealed the Eighth Amendment to name a few.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Francis 'Frankie' Dunne have spoken to a man in Romania.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of Churchfield native Frankie Dunne are understood to have travelled to Romania to question a man in relation to the investigation.

The outstanding Aishling Moloney kicked a point deep into stoppage-time to earn Tipperary a share of the spoils with Dublin at the end of a tense Lidl NFL Division 1 clash at Ballyboden St Enda’s.

Jimmy Dunne has seen the world, Arklow to Alaska. He also saw the corridors of Croke Park. Now he stands in Pearses Park, his home ground

The Haven Montessori school in Bandon is to close in June after 32 years in business.

WIT are back in the Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-finals after a four-year absence.

A crazy game of hurling in the month of January, as best described by Pádraig Walsh. The Tullaroan centreback and county star, was one of four brothers who helped the Kilkenny side to All Ireland intermediate hurling championship glory in Croke Park on Saturday night.

John Fogarty previews the weekend's GAA fixtures.

The pair were sent off in the semi-final win over Tooreen of Mayo last Saturday week.

Spiralling insurance costs are the “straw that broke the camel’s back” for those in the childcare sector as creches nationwide look set to soon shut their doors for 24 hours.

The brutal death of Frankie Dunne, whose dismembered body was found dumped behind a derelict house in Cork just over a week ago, is incomprehensible, wrong, pointless and without justification, mourners at his funeral Mass were told.

As it stands the pair will miss the All-Ireland final against Tullaroan in Croke Park on Saturday week.

Gardaí are believed to be spearheading an international manhunt for a suspect after the “macabre” decapitation of a man in Cork City.

As gardaí follow more than 300 lines of inquiry over the gruesome killing of Frankie Dunne, his family has said they are “numb and in shock” after his death.

The victim of a gruesome murder was not a violent man and garda sources say they do not know what he could have done, if anything, to have warranted being killed in such a brutal fashion.

Murder victim Francis 'Frankie' Dunne was a client of a high-support shelter a short distance from where his decapitated body was found.

Gardaí investigating the gruesome killing of another homeless man in Cork, whose head and arms were apparently cut off, have appealed for witnesses to contact them.

Six points from Daire Bolger helped Rathgarogue-Cushinstown become the first Wexford club to lift the Leinster Club JFC crown following this exciting decider at Páirc Tailteann on Saturday.

Not for the first time in this Munster intermediate hurling club championship has the resolve and character of Fr O’Neill’s been tested. This provincial final victory in Fraher Field, Dungarvan was built on a fierce work-rate and will-to-win, just like they showed in their extra-time victory over Blackrock earlier this month.

Kildare lightweight Brandon McCarthy claimed his 15th Irish title — and his first Elite belt — at the National Stadium last night.

Paul Dunne's nightmare season took on more Dantesque proportions when he was forced to withdraw from tomorrow's Final Stage of the European Tour Qualifying School with a niggling wrist injury.

Two years after holding off Rory McIlroy to win the British Masters, Dunne lost his card after missing the cut in the Portugal Masters last month.

A Munster Club IHC final against Waterford’s Ballysaggart awaits Fr O’Neill’s as the Cork champions made easy work of their Clare counterparts Broadford in Midleton.

30 years on from Clare's solitary Munster Senior Club Camogie Championship title, newcomers Scariff-Ogonnelloe joined Sixmilebridge on that storied roll of honour following a gritty final victory over Tipperary's Drom & Inch in Cappamore this afternoon.

Blackrock and Fr O’Neill’s served up a hurling classic at Kilfinane, a Munster club intermediate championship quarter-final that defied the tough conditions for this time of the year and that was fully enjoyed by the huge crowd at the Blackrock venue.

Thomas McCarthy pays tribute to his late friend — poet and journalist Seán Dunne

The GAA are strongly considering the decommissioning of the ‘maor foirne’ role in Gaelic football and hurling.

The woman at the centre of the controversial Miss D case in 2007 has revealed that she was told by social workers at the time that getting an abortion was murder and that she was advised to stay in a mental hospital.

Over the years, some outstanding teams have claimed the Seamus Long Cup, and on Saturday night in Páirc Uí Rinn, Fr O’Neill’s joined this illustrious group.

Private and stately, Rockbarton House also offers plenty of free rein to buyers who enjoy equestrian pursuits.

Fr O’Neill’s held off Blarney in today’s tense Cork PIHC semi-final at Páirc Uí Rinn.

That I can say I feel for Richard Keogh this morning is not the same as saying that he was not guilty of an appalling error of judgment, to put it at its mildest, for his involvement in the events which culminated in the car crash on Tuesday night. One that saw two of his Derby County team mates arrested on drink-driving charges and the club captain and Irish international sustaining a serious knee injury.

A record-breaking crowd of 56,114, but the fare they bore witness to won’t live long in the memory as Dublin needed just five scores to secure a third consecutive All-Ireland ladies football title

Dublin manager Mick Bohan has made two changes in personnel to the team that lined out against Cork for Sunday’s TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Final against Galway at Croke Park.

A devastating ten minute period after half-time propelled Fr O’Neill’s into the quarter-finals of the Cork PIHC as they saw off the challenge of Fermoy at Ballynoe yesterday.

At one time, there were anything up to 1,500 of them, dotted around the country.

Richard Dunne believes Mick McCarthy’s demand for his players to put the emphasis on applying rather than absorbing pressure — in contrast to what he saw as a fear of failure beginning to inhibit the team under the previous management regime — means Ireland are now in a better position to make home advantage tell against Switzerland tonight.