My earliest memory of Páidí Ó Sé is of a young lad in perpetual motion with ball in hand playing against the gable end of his house in Árd a’ Bhothair or soloing up the cosach, that picturesque little byroad to Dunquin.

A former “murder squad” member told the Court of Criminal Appeal today that “no violence whatsoever” was “ever” used against a Meath man, by gardaí investigating the disappearance of Una Lynskey almost 40 years ago.

Documents relating to the investigation into the killing of Una Lynskey in 1971 were stored in a disused toilet after they were moved from a “rat infested” former Garda Station, the Court of Criminal Appeal heard today.

A MAN is expected to be charged for the murder of a neighbour in a small Tipperary village at the weekend.

Carlow officials reckon they may be in a position to announce their senior football team's new manager tomorrow.

FEAR stalked the Border area and bodies were regularly dumped along roadsides in the mid-1970s, an Oireachtas all-party body heard yesterday.

Fear stalked the Border area and bodies were regularly dumped along roadsides in the mid 1970s, an Oireachtas all-party body heard today.

A THREE-decade-old loyalist murder and questions over the failure to bring prosecutions will be raised with the North’s secretary of state by the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

A FORMER head of the garda murder squad made startling claims yesterday that garda headquarters suppressed an investigation into the killing of a Louth man 29 years ago.

JOHN COURTNEY, who was approached to manage the Wexford senior footballers, has launched a stinging criticism of the Board for their handling of the process.

MORE THAN 60 armed detectives and uniformed gardaí were detailed for the biggest security operation ever mounted for a court case in Limerick, as four men appeared in connection with the murder of crime boss, Kieran Keane.

FEARS of a revenge attack were growing in the Moyross area of Limerick city after a 23-year-old man was murdered on his way home from a party early yesterday morning.

MURDERER John Crerar may never have been brought to justice had the winter of 1979 not been so severe.

THE political time bomb now ticking away for one Cabinet minister is whether or not to release convicted murderer Malcolm McArthur.

Damien Richardson has parted company with Shamrock Rovers. The reasons behind his departure are not known.

Former Bohemians manager Roddy Collins has threatened to walk away from his current employers at the British Third Division side Carlisle.