Waterford manager Derek McGrath has categorically dismissed rumours about him replacing Ger Cunningham in Dublin next season.

Many Young Men Of 20 is being revived at the Everyman, so Jo Kerrigan looks back on the original Cork-Kerry collaborations that saw the Listowel master’s plays performed on Leeside.

Tributes have been paid to Kevin Casey, the sports editor of Waterford radio station WLR FM, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 40. The award-winning presenter died after a short illness.

Xpreso aims to take the ‘sorry we missed you’ problem and waiting times out of deliveries, writes Trish Dromey.

MUSICIAN and psychotherapist Eamon Keane is a Renaissance man. 

A 28-year-old from Dublin has been named Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur for his new parcel tracking company.

Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur has just been announced, he is 28-year-old software developer Eamon Keane.

The ninth Temple Bar Trad Fest opens today and features over 200 free events, including a musical trail and a family programme.

SINGER, songwriter and composer, Eamon Keane, is returning to Cork for his first concert in ten years at CIT School of Music this Friday, Dec 20.

Men are expected to keep their feelings in check but this can get in the way of developing an emotional literacy, says Dave Kenny.

Jonathan Clancy is 27, established in his professional life as a fully qualified accountant working with Eamon Keane & Co in Ennis and a hurler of note since he joined the Clare senior panel since 2005.

The Green Party is launching celebrations for its 30th birthday today.

POPE Benedict has admitted clerical child sex abuse in Ireland had led to a breakdown in trust in the Church’s leadership but he failed to issue an apology.

RTÉ maintained its dominance of the national airwaves during 2009 according to the latest Joint National Listenership Research results, although its pop station 2FM continues to lose audiences.

George Lee’s media profile dwindled during his fleeting political career – but he made up for lost time since his resignation, writes Political Correspondent Conor Ryan

ARTS Minister Martin Cullen said he chose his words carefully when likening media intrusion into his life to male rape.

AS Dublin ground to a halt, our fearless Defence Minister, Willie O’Dea, sat back and pretty much shrugged his shoulders.

DANNY FOLEY’S fiancé yesterday pledged to stand by him, saying he was not the monster which had been portrayed.

RTÉ broadcasters have again emerged as the big winners in the battle of the airwaves as the latest Joint National Listenership Research results reveal Radio 1 remains the country’s favourite station.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney said she could not accept that a surgeon could be left with nothing to do at a busy hospital.

RURAL affairs minister Éamon Ó Cuív has said he doesn’t agree with fellow Fianna Fáil TD Mattie McGrath’s assertion that an alcoholic drink can help nervous drivers relax.

TÁNAISTE Mary Coughlan should appear before the Dáil committee investigating Fás to explain her approval of a “golden handshake” for Rody Molloy, Fine Gael has said.

MORNING Ireland continues to dominate the airwaves as the latest radio listenership showed it top of a pile of resurgent RTÉ programmes.

THE spread of swine flu in a Donegal Gaeltacht area has forced the closure of a second school, as teachers struggled to cope with the number of sick pupils.

SINN FÉIN’s Martin Ferris defended his role in spiriting away two of the gang who killed Detective Jerry McCabe, as they were released from prison yesterday, and said he did not want to add to the pain of the dead man’s family.

PAUL O’CONNELL is backing Ronan O’Gara to bounce back from the shattering experience of conceding a last-gasp penalty to the Springboks in Pretoria last week.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan has signalled there will be no further income tax increases this year.

EUROPEAN Affairs Minister Dick Roche has backed away from calls for an early vote on the second Lisbon referendum despite growing support for a yes vote.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan’s defence against negligence has been undermined by his own chief whip who claimed he would have read the full report on Anglo Irish Bank.

RTÉ Radio One and Marian Finucane in particular have emerged as the big winners in the latest Joint National Listenership Research figures which were published yesterday.

A security company worker who provided information to criminals who had planned to steal €1m from a cash-in-transit van has been sentenced to three years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

COMPLAINTS against Newstalk for sending a reporter to a psychiatric day hospital with knives in her bag and against Today FM for broadcasting a pop song called F**k You, have been upheld by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC).

WILL he start Paul Galvin? Not at all, we said. He can’t.

THE Diageo announcement saw Mary Coughlan walking into her first row since being appointed Tánaiste and Enterprise Minister less than 48 hours earlier.

CATHAL Ó Searcaigh’s decision to break his silence on the Fairytale of Kathmandu documentary reignited the heated controversy yesterday with his former media adviser describing him as having a “Judas complex”.

BERTIE Ahern’s purchase of his Drumcondra home was at the centre of fresh controversy last night as questions were raised whether files given to the Mahon corruption probe had been altered.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was yesterday facing a second front in attacks on his personal credibility, as his Fianna Fáil predecessor Albert Reynolds questioned his role in the scandal that downed the Government in 1994.

A PHOTOGRAPH of legendary broadcaster, Gay Byrne, has prompted a bitter row between political rivals.

THE ‘Playboy riots’ in the Abbey Theatre 100 years ago bring to mind how Barry Fitzgerald, later one of the most famous of all Irish actors, engaged in fisticuffs with a member of the audience, all because of the use of the word ‘shifts’.