Longford booked their place in the O’Byrne Cup semi-final for the fourth year in a row with six points to spare over Carlow in Glennon Brothers Pearse Park.

Up to 1,000 people will this weekend mobilise in an air, sea, and land search for missing R116 helicopter crew members Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith.

Waste water from towns and villages in counties Cork, Donegal, Wicklow, Galway, Clare, Mayo, Waterford, Wexford and Dublin is putting Irish bathing waters and rivers at risk as raw sewage isn’t being removed.

FARMERS, the self-employed, nurses who’ve just finished a night shift, retired and off-duty gardaí are all to be found in the midst of the search for the missing fishermen at Glandore Bay.

The High Court has approved an award of €1.28m to a Co Waterford teenager who lost his leg in a farming accident.