As a nation, we really love our random news stories, and we’re well aware that some of it sounds like spoof news - which is probably why Waterford Whispers’ is such a popular website.

COUNTY councillors in South Tipperary yesterday voted to reject plans for a 3,500-home and technology park development on land partially-owned by the family of former FF TD and minister Noel Davern, outside Clonmel.

The deaths of two 13-year-old teenagers in a road crash in Tipperary has devastated their small rural community, a parish priest said today.