Tomorrow morning, a dozen or so of Darragh O’Connell’s closest friends and family will leave Abbeydorney in Kerry and point their cars towards Carlow.

I live in a modest three bedroom home just a couple of miles from where I was born and raised. That happens to be in the area of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown. For that privilege, I must pay €497 in property tax — a figure that will no doubt increase. 

Caroline O’Doherty meets Gerry Doyle, who fears the budget may inflict more cuts in services to his autistic son Patrick, 26

THE new editor of the Limerick Leader yesterday apologised for a column published by the newspaper which was branded as racist by some readers.

The Leinster Under-21 squad for the upcoming season has been announced today.