A psychiatric assessment has been ordered on a 27-year-old man accused of murdering a shop manager last Thursday.

A civil servant who was found guilty of spying on her former supervisor by hacking into her phone’s voicemail messages, has escaped punishment.

Mick O’Dowd of the Skryne club was ratified as the new Meath senior football manager in succession to Seamus McEnaney at last night’s county board meeting in Navan.

Meath legends Colm O’Rourke, above left and Graham Geraghty, above right, are among the nominations for the county’s vacant senior football post.

Shane McAnarney has been a Meath senior footballer since 2006, but try asking him when he made his debut and he will tell you it came as recently as last year.

Bail has been refused to a Corkman charged in relation to false imprisonment and aggravated burglary at a family home in Co Limerick, last week.

Bail has been refused to a Corkman charged in relation to false imprisonment and aggravated burglary at a family home in Co Limerick, last week.

An inmate at Limerick Prison who concealed a mobile phone internally had to be rushed to hospital to have it surgically removed, a court heard.

Thousands of rugby fans who will throng Limerick on Easter Sunday for the do-or-die Heineken Cup clash between Munster and Ulster have been given extra warm-up time by the city’s legal referee.

A man who appeared in court yesterday charged with 21 counts of sexual assault on a girl has been ordered not to contact the alleged victim — including contact through social media websites Facebook and Bebo.

ONLY in Ireland could a situation arise in which gardaí face unprecedented public opprobrium for doing their jobs.

PROWLING for sex with prostitutes ended in “remorse and significant embarrassment” for 21 men caught by female detectives in a Garda operation.

THE “temporary unavailability” of judges led to one man doing the work of possibly three at Limerick District Court yesterday.

A MAN charged with setting fire to his house with his mother and girlfriend inside the dwelling, was refused bail at Limerick District Court yesterday.

A MAN yesterday appeared at Limerick District Court in connection with the murder of retired Eircom worker, Martin Purcell.

A LIMERICK-based solicitor is to face trial by a jury on a charge of alleged fraud, a court has heard.

A DISTRICT Court judge has thrown out a number of cases relating to speeding offences, detected by the new mobile safety cameras.

WITH Kildare being such a good second-half team, yesterday’s Croke Park clash was always going to be decided after half-time.

“MAY you live in interesting times” is an old Chinese saying that has a certain resonance in Meath football at present.

SEAMUS McENANEY is expected to have just one selector, Armagh’s Paul Grimley, for Sunday week’s Leinster SFC quarter-final against Kildare.

THE Croke Park Streets Committee has sent a letter to Queen Elizabeth II asking her to speak on its behalf when visiting GAA headquarters next week as part of her state visit to Ireland.

A RETIRED priest was verbally abused as he left a court after being returned for trial on two counts of indecently assaulting two teenage girls in Co Cork in the 1980s.

AFTER nine long weeks of speculation, and much debate from both sides, Meath has, for the first time, appointed a manager from outside the county.

A MOTORIST who was found to be more than two-and-a-half times over the legal drink limit, had the case against him dismissed because of the humidity level in the Garda station where he was breath tested.

BEFORE four-by-fours and fourballs formed the small talk at county board meetings, the GAA was run very differently.

DISGRUNTLED residents in the Croke Park vicinity are planning a protest convoy on the main Dublin-Cork road on the morning of tomorrow week’s All-Ireland SFC final which could cause serious delays for fans travelling to the game.

I WILL always be grateful to Eamon O’Brien for the role he played as a selector when Meath won All-Irelands in 1996 and 1999.

RESIDENTS in the Croke Park area are contemplating the possibility of taking a class action against the GAA as a result of the ongoing dispute over the handball and community centre beside the Dublin stadium.

GAA Director General Páraic Duffy has admitted that there are “inequities” in the structure of the senior football championship but he has also told advocates for change there are no easy means of ironing out the kinks.

All-Ireland SFC Round 4

ANTHONY MOYLES was happy to let Meath’s attack bask in most of the acclaim after Sunday’s devastating destruction of Dublin, but the versatile veteran feels a strong case was made for the defence as well.

THE difference between winning and losing sides is all too obvious but the disparity between the victorious Meath and Louth players after yesterday’s pair of Leinster semi-finals was truly revealing.

HISTORIC.

IT IS difficult to look at games like yesterday’s Meath v Dublin clash from a neutral perspective.

LAOIS manager Sean Dempsey is adamant the off-field problems which contributed to the county’s footballers’ disastrous summer campaign in 2009 are a thing of the past.

ANYONE under the impression provincial titles don’t mean as much as they used to obviously hasn’t spent much time of late in Meath.

OFFALY manager Tom Cribbin accused referee Derek Fahy of “destroying” yesterday’s opening game in Portlaoise with his decision to send John Coughlan off two minutes after the interval.

AT LAST.

MEATH manager Eamon O’Brien has called on the GAA to ‘clarify’ the revised handpass rules in Gaelic football.

A GARDA was arrested yesterday in connection with the attempted robbery of a shop in Carrigaline, Co Cork.

DCU’s recent love affair with the O’Byrne Cup grew yesterday thanks to an impressive last quarter against Meath that takes them into their second final in successive seasons.

EVEN extra-time couldn’t separate these two sparring partners last week and only a 73rd-minute point from Meath’s Cormac McGuinness prevented another extended night of football at Páirc Tailteann last night.