There’s a little history between Ballygunner and Na Piarsaigh. Given the pool of clubs jostling to get out of the Munster club SHC, that’s hardly surprising, but Paul Flynn is worried that the backstory may be more beneficial to the Limerick champions than to his club mates in black and red.

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Gardaí fear the attempted murder of a man in the early hours of yesterday has resurrected a feud that previously claimed the life of a youth and the near killing of an unarmed garda.

“I imagine people weren’t expecting us to win in Waterford this year,” says Ballygunner selector Gary O’Keeffe.

A man has secured a fresh appeal to the Supreme Court against his conviction for the murder of his friend who was in a permanent vegetative state for almost two years after being shot twice in a car in Dublin.

A judge has today accused a man of smirking during his sentencing hearing at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of his friend.

AFTER an amazing Avonmore Milk Munster Schools’ Senior Cup tie at Cork Institute of Technology yesterday, both sides must battle again for the right to meet either St Munchin’s or Ardscoil Ris in the semi-final.

A matter of inches prevented Glenstal causing a sensational victory over holders Rockwell in an exciting Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup game at Clanwilliam Park, Tipperary.

Rockwell open their Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup title defence against Glenstal in Tipperary today (Clanwilliam Park, 3pm).

A 26-year-old Dublin man has today been jailed for life for murdering his friend Ian Kenny, who he shot during an afternoon in South Dublin in 2007.

A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence from a deputy state pathologist the cause of death was pneumonia.

A murder trial has heard evidence from a neuropathologist that the deceased suffered an acute brain stem injury which he was unlikely to survive.

The trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering his friend has heard he only meant to shoot him in the arms and thought he would run.

A MAN serving a 12-year sentence for the attempted murder of his friend, who has since died, is now on trial for his murder.

The murder trial of a Dublin man accused of shooting his friend in the head has heard that he told gardaí: "It was him or me."

The jury in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering his friend with a shotgun has been discharged.

A Dublin man is to go on trial having pleaded "not guilty" to the murder of his friend two and a half years ago.

THE power and pace of centre Robert Campbell was the decisive factor in CBS Naas’s second Leinster Schools Section A McMullen Senior Cup title in six seasons at Navan RFC yesterday.

A 22-year-old man shot two years ago in Dublin has died in hospital, it has emerged.

GARDAÍ yesterday said the 12-year sentence handed down to Jonathan Dunne for the attempted murder of Ian Kenny was “fair enough”.

A Dublin man who shot his friend with both barrels of a sawn off shotgun and then threw him from his car was jailed for 12 years today.

A Dublin man shot his friend with a sawn off shotgun outside a southside suburban shopping centre and then threw him from his car as a favour for drugs dealers, a court heard today.

A gunman who blasted a garda sergeant with a shotgun in a cocaine-crazed incident arising from a feud between members of two west Dublin families has been given a 12-year sentence.

The Special Criminal Court has remanded five men in custody today after they were charged with being members of the INLA.