Referee James Owens has revealed the abuse his family were subjected to after last year’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final between Waterford and Cork.

The son of an elderly man, who waited three-and-a-half hours for an ambulance after his lungs collapsed, has said medical services in the area demonstrate the risk of “death by geography”.

THE Irishman who led the operation to capture dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003 has landed a senior role with the controversial US private security firm formerly known as Blackwater.