Jimmy Crowley has started a new folk club in his native city, writes Pet O’Connell

A voluntary patient at a psychiatric unit who was coming off drugs threatened to stab a nurse who challenged him for allegedly trying to supply drugs to another patient.

The provost of Ireland’s oldest university has been accused of trying to turn Trinity College Dublin into a “second-rate polytechnic” by introducing full semesterisation.

The Cabinet was divided over the merits of allowing postal voting after reports of widespread abuse of the system during the 1985 local elections.

Some of the 30-year-old archive material published today shows how very little has changed and how very much has changed.

It was not just the GAA that provided a link between Irish sporting organisations and the 1916 Rising, writes Kevin McCarthy

Trinity College Dublin breached university ranking guidelines by sending “misguided and naive” letters to graduates and academics reminding them that the evaluation process was under way.

No excuse for slapping a child will be accepted by the courts henceforth. The law has been changed to clarify a grey area that persisted for 155 years around physical punishment by parents and minders.

The latest university league tables show mixed results for Irish third-level colleges but the country still has nine in the top 5% in the world.

Ireland’s top universities have slipped slightly in a major world ranking system but the country still retains four in the top 300.

The Government's roll-out of high-speed broadband to every second level school in the country has officially been completed.

The coalition of Fine Gael and Labour became increasingly concerned during its first year in office about its poor record on communicating government policy to the public.

There were disagreements between ministers over the size of a proposed increase in electricity prices in May 1983.

A nanotech researchfacility in Trinity College Dublin is to create 50 jobs after securing €8m in funding from industry.

THE leaves are brown. The Battle of the Estimates is under way. Blood is flowing along the corridors at the heart of Government.

A MAN who left a betting shop with €250 in his wallet was attacked and robbed in a nearby laneway, a court heard yesterday.

Five leading multinational companies have today confirmed the availability of 175 job vacancies in the IT, telecommunications, customer service, HR consultancy and pharmaceutical industries at East Point Office Park.

THESE are busy times for Toomevara GAA PRO Tommy Shanahan.

A former secretary general of the Department of Health could have been sacked three months before he was finally removed, Tánaiste Mary Harney revealed today.

PROFESSIONALISM in the GAA and the tax implications for players vis-a-vis increased mileage rates and endorsements are raised in a very thought-provoking report to next Sunday’s Tipperary convention by county secretary Michael O’Brien.

A FIANNA Fáil senator has said corporal punishment should be brought back in schools in a bid to curb lawlessness.

The GAA may be prepared to turn to arbitration to sort out the growing number of appeals and objections.

Kilkenny 3-15, Tipperary 1-7

Kilkenny 3-15 Tipperary 1-7

TIPPERARY have not allowed the John Boland affair to deflect their attention from tomorrow’s All-Ireland MHC final against Kilkenny.

A Co Tipperary minor hurler has won a High Court injunction against the GAA which will allow him to be selected for the All-Ireland final on Sunday.

THE intervention of GAA president Seán McCague and the management committee in Croke Park has resulted in Tipperary’s John Boland missing out on the greatest day in his sporting life.

Tipperary minor hurler John Boland will miss the All-Ireland Final against Kilkenny on Sunday next following a ruling by the Management Committee that any player receiving a red card gets an automatic one month suspension.

The decision to overturn a red card in a Tipperary MFC match is likely to be dramatically reversed again.

TIPPERARY defender John Boland has been cleared to play in next month’s All-Ireland MHC final against Kilkenny.

INJURIES to centre back David Kennedy, wing back John Boland and wing forward Lee Shanahan have caused a delay in the selection of the Tipperary team for Sunday’s All-Ireland minor hurling championship semi-final clash with Wexford at Croke Park.

The Tipperary Minor Hurling selectors have remained faithful to the team which defeated Limerick in the Munster semi-final by naming the same 15 for Sunday¹s clash with Cork in the Munster Final in Pairc Ui Chaoimh.