WHEN you’re a scriptwriter whose latest TV series is an irreverent take on the 1916 Rising, it throws you a little when you meet your director for the first time and realise he’s a descendant of one of the most celebrated fighters to die at the GPO.

St Vincent’s Cork 39 Our Lady’s Castleblayney 17: St Vincent’s picked up Cork’s second win at the U14 All Ireland Schools Finals week with a 39-17 win over Our Lady’s Castleblayney yesterday.

There were new Club Senior Football champions crowned in a number of counties today, with Errigal Ciaran ending their six-year wait for another Tyrone title.

VIGILANCE among farm workers involves a few minutes of forethought and planning which could save lives, IFA deputy president Eddie Downey told an Irish meeting on Agricultural Occupational Health and Safety in Dublin yesterday.

Nature’s Way pleaded guilty at Kilkenny District Court today to eight breaches of the Product Prices Regulations 2002 and was fined €6,000.