DUBLIN boss Pat Gilroy insists there’s no guarantee any of the county’s big-name players will force their way back into his team between now and the start of the championship.

COMMUNITY leaders in west Wicklow are setting up a crime text alert system linking several towns and involving gardaí in the wake of the release of local convicted sex offender Larry Murphy.

A PUBLIC meeting is to be held in west Wicklow tomorrow to coincide with the release of a notorious rapist from the area.

AUTHORITIES underestimate the risk to society posed by the pending release of brutal rapist Larry Murphy, the National Women’s Council (NWC) has warned.

CELEBRATION is the last thing on the minds of Cork’s footballers, but the panel put the heartbreak of last week’s All-Ireland final defeat to Kerry behind them at the weekend as they gathered for the love-match of goalie Alan Quirke to his long-time girlfriend Christina O’Leary.

THE crowd is happy, the music is swirling, and two men jump up, pints of Guinness in hand, for a quick jig.

CHILDREN’S Minister Barry Andrews has rejected requests to remove two employees of the Health Service Executive from an investigation into how the system failed six Roscommon children abused by their mother over a period of several years.

FAMILIES have reacted with fear and anger over plans to destroy batches of the deadly chemical hydrogen cyanide by explosion on Wicklow lands later this month.

NINE O, despite a substantial rise in the weights, is the nap choice to land the Martinstown Opportunity Handicap Chase at Limerick this afternoon.

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ANYONE who doubted the quality of Hardy Eustace had their answer at Punchestown yesterday.

THE children call out his first name when Tony De Loughrey drives into the village of Jadimi in Kosovo.