Shops across Dublin are experiencing serious shortages in the county’s new GAA jersey due to unprecedented demands.

Arlene Harris looks at how the drive to get fit and ripped is encouraging young men to join Justin Bieber and Niall Horan in regular gym trips.

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The families of the three brothers who died at sea off the Co Waterford coast were yesterday preparing to lay them to rest, as local fishermen said fish-catch regulations had meant the Bolgers had been forced out to sea with lobster pots instead of fishing salmon on the Suir estuary.

The people of Passage East have always gone to sea, but yesterday all they could do was think about the boat that failed to come home.

BANDON withstood a late Dripsey comeback before eventually prevailing at Brinny on Saturday evening.

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FINE Gael health spokesman James Reilly has stated he believes some patients are placed on expensive medicines due to deals between hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.

A FORMER senior Mayo garda has started working for a security firm at Shell’s controversial Corrib gas pipeline site just over a year after he helped to police the project.

THE dream of a second consecutive hurling Grand Slam for Kilkenny died an early death in Fraher Field, Dungarvan, on Saturday.

CORK’s intermediate hurlers maintained the season theme of winning with plenty to spare in Saturday’s All-Ireland IHC semi-final in Portlaoise.

MAYO manager John O’Mahony is to give injured full-forward Barry Moran every chance to be fit to line out in Sunday’s last All-Ireland football quarter-final clash with Meath.

CORK finally got something from what must be considered a hugely disappointing season for the county when their intermediate hurlers took the Munster championship title with consummate ease at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last night.

JOHN GARDINER last night admitted that Cork are aware that people want them to fail following their winter stand-off, as they prepare for Sunday’s Munster SHC quarter-final against Tipperary.

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WATERFORD County Council has commenced enforcement proceedings against a TK Maxx outlet in Waterford after An Bord Pleanála found it had contravened planning laws.

TWO goals in a minute early in the second-half powered Dripsey to a comfortable victory over Modeligo in the AIB Munster JHC quarter-final at the splendid Coachford venue yesterday.

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Jack Black fears US presidential candidate Barack Obama will pull the plug on his band's upcoming campaign trail benefit concert when the Senator realises they've cursed every other politician they've supported.

JAMSIE and Rena Power are no historians but they are giving children in a Waterford village a unique insight into growing up in the 1940s and 1950s.

A 45-YEAR-OLD pedestrian who died after being struck by a HSE ambulance near Killorglin, Co Kerry, early on December 27 last, had refused two different offers of drives to his home shortly before the accident, an inquest was told yesterday.

A TOTAL of 21 people died in road accidents in Kerry in 2006, the highest number since 1995, when the toll was 22.

WATERFORD County Council has refuted claims that it is to blame for constant traffic congestion in part of the county which has spurred demonstrations since the Summer.

THEY’RE nothing if not eager in the Munster Council. Cork with 30 hurling titles and Kerry with 33 football titles may lead the All-Ireland senior stakes.

RESIDENTS in Passage East in Waterford say they are sick and tired of traffic congestion and will mount blockades, even go to jail if necessary, to free up their streets.

Ismail Kadare, the Albanian dissident and novelist awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, today spoke of his happiness about his work being circulated globally.

Gardaí took nine months to probe claims a Raphoe man was framed for making sinister death threats with a silver bullet, it emerged today.

WATERFORD County Council last night controversially held a meeting about the possible contracting out of part of its waste service in private last night.

The 18 contenders for the inaugural Man Booker International Prize were announced today.

MORE than 300 people in Co Waterford fear they may lose RTÉ television permanently following a spate of vandalism.

IF, as predicted, Fianna Fáil loses two seats in Waterford, the finger of blame will be pointed at Health Minister Micheál Martin.

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