As individual professional archivists and information professionals, we wish to add our support to the calls for the full and immediate withdrawal of the Retention of Records Bill 2019 (Abuse records Bill should be withdrawn, December 4, 2019).

Twenty archivists and information professionals at some of Ireland’s main universities have called for “the full and immediate withdrawal” of legislation seeking to seal millions of child abuse records for 75 years.

James O’Donovan, Tim Young, Billy McAuliffe, and Aidan Murphy were the top four performers in Sunday’s senior men’s trials for the Irish road team at next year’s European championships in Germany.

Ulster visitors Cathal Toal and Thomas Mackle pulled off a significant double over Munster rivals at the weekend. Toal beat James Buckley at Ballincurrig in the Mick Barry Cup and Mackle beat Aidan Murphy in the Sonny O’Donovan Cup in Ardcahan.

A cyclist who was knocked off his bike in a collision with a vehicle when he was cycling in the wrong direction on a bicycle lane sued the motorist yesterday, but the judge said that the cyclist’s injuries could not be visited on the shoulders of the post mistress driving the car.