Tipperary 7-12 Galway 2-12

An 83-year-old man yanked a gas pipe from a wall inside his house causing an explosion in which he was burned. And although his actions had been described as “foolhardy” he was yesterday awarded €72,500 as a judge said Gas Networks Ireland had left “a primed bomb” in the house.

St Brigid’s, Dublin claimed a unique All-Ireland double on Saturday.

WHEN Denise Bullman first envisioned her move from the city to the countryside, she imagined standing on her porch watching her children play safely and happily in a newly built playground.

WHEN Denise Bullman set store by a house in Ballyhooly, Co Cork, she believed she was buying not just a home, but a safe haven for her children.