GP Lucia Gannon fears for the future of rural doctors. She tells Áilin Quinlan the government must get to grips with the shrinking numbers of GPs that threaten the health of small communities across the country.

The partner of a garda whistleblower who claimed he was subject to harassment and intimidation voluntarily left the home where she was living with him on three occasions, the Charleton tribunal has heard.

Dublin 1-28 Galway 1-19: It wasn’t exactly revenge for 2015 but victory at Parnell Park to secure a Walsh Cup final place at Croke Park must have been sweet for Dublin.

Dublin hurler Shane Durkin is officially the GAA’s most attractive player.

Dublin have managed a measure of revenge for their All-Ireland elimination at Tipperary’s hands last summer with a comprehensive and impressive 12-point win in their opening Allianz Hurling League Division 1A game in Donnycarney.

Dublin 0-28 Antrim 2-12: Walsh Cup: They may need someone to lift the Walsh Cup very shortly though Ger Cunningham still isn’t sure exactly who his Dublin captain for 2015 will be. 

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Dublin manager Anthony Daly felt his side simply just didn’t do enough, as they relinquished hold of the Leinster Senior Hurling title this afternoon, after Kilkenny claimed a 12-point win at Croke Park.

Camogie: Galway’s campaign to defend their Liberty Insurance senior camogie title met with an early setback after old rivals Wexford inflicted a 2-12 to 1-11 defeat at Kenny Park on Saturday.

KENYA:

Kilkenny 0-24 Dublin 1-17

A new drug therapy available to Irish patients is being hailed as a cure for skin cancer which, up to now, had a very poor prognosis.

This game turned on a few events. Dublin centre forward Ryan O’Dwyer, who was having a big influence on the game at the time, picked up a second yellow card with 20 minutes left at a time when the Metropolitans were a point to the good. For the record, the first card was harsh. Anthony Nash sent the free over the bar to level proceedings.

Confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers whether he could embark on an unusual project: Would the spy agency allow Mohammed, who had earned his bachelor degree in mechanical engineering, to design a vacuum cleaner?

Dublin manager Anthony Daly has resisted the temptation to tinker with his team for Sunday's Leinster SHC semi-final against Kilkenny at O'Moore Park (throw-in 3.50pm).

Aidan Murphy became the first holder of the Jim Geasley Cup when he beat Edmond Sexton in the last shot at Cobh on Sunday.

A baby who is currently enduring gruelling surgery to reconnect his digestive system has benefited from a fund raised by a cancer treatment campaigner whose funeral takes place today.

A Dublin woman who led a campaign to force the HSE to provide a life improving cancer drug has lost her battle with the disease.

Business leaders in Cork are seeking an emergency summit with the city manager to tackle the biggest number of shop closures in living memory.

Brian Wilmot’s senior career continues its upward trajectory following a hard earned Munster championship win over Eamon Bowen Snr at Waterfall on Saturday He opened with a brilliant bowl past the Glasha.

A mother of a young child with autism has today hit out at the standard of services available in Ireland.

The last time a competition ended like this, it must have been the OK Corral in 1881.

Dublin 3-13 Limerick 0-18

TIPPERARY held off a second-half comeback from Dublin to emerge victorious in a high scoring senior hurling challenge at Geraldine Park, Athy, Co Kildare last night to commemorate the replayed All-Ireland final played between the counties at this venue in 1909.

JAMES O’DONOVAN finished powerfully to beat David Hubbard by a over a bowl of odds in the Bill Barrett Cup final at Caheragh on Sunday.

JOHN CREEDON bowled well to beat Aidan Murphy and Eamon Bowen Jnr in the Kealkill Cup final on Sunday.

PARENTS of children with autism are being encouraged to join a postcard campaign to protest plans to transform the country’s 13 ABA schools for children with autism into special schools using a range of different teaching methods.

DUBLIN hurling boss Anthony Daly admits his future is unclear after his charges sensationally crashed out of the All-Ireland SHC race at Croke Park on Saturday.

DUBLIN hurling boss Anthony Daly admits his future is unclear after his charges sensationally crashed out of the All-Ireland SHC race at Croke Park on Saturday.

Kilkenny 4-19 Dublin 0-12, Croke Park

Dublin 0-25 Laois 0-16

NHL DIVISION 1:

Dublin 1-21 Tipperary 1-12

CAPTAIN Shane Kavanagh claimed the Walsh Cup for the first time on Galway’s behalf and then declared the Tribesmen want to stay in Leinster permanently.

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DUBLIN 2-16 ANTRIM 0-12

Dublin 0-15 Clare 0-15

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A 20-YEAR-OLD woman who died of pneumonia attended her local GP the day before her death complaining of feeling unwell, the Dublin Corner’s Court heard yesterday.

THE family of an Irish soldier found shot dead inside a secure base in Afghanistan last September are “upset” at a US Army finding that she committed suicide.

THE man who headed the State’s probe into the misdiagnosis of a breast cancer patient was “surprised and disappointed” but not “horrified” when it revealed systemic mismanagement at two HSE hospitals.

A "once-off interpretive error by a locum consultant pathologist in Cork University Hospital (CUH)" has been blamed for the misdiagnosis of cancer sufferer Rebecca O’Malley.