The former Garda press officer who helped run a smear campaign against whistleblower, Maurice McCabe, and then lied to the Disclosures Tribunal about the nature of his involvement is to get the bulk of his legal costs.

A Co. Wexford man has avoided being sent to jail after he agreed before the High Court to comply with orders not to interfere with a property in receivership.

A Co. Wexford man has been given a week by a High Court judge to decide if he will comply with a court order not to interfere with a property in receivership.

Celtic have allayed fears over Kieran Tierney's fitness after the left-back went off injured against Rangers.

As he takes the call in the office of his Toyota dealership in Clonmel, John Kennedy looks at the framed photograph of Clonoulty-Rossmore’s 1997 senior county-winning team. The win, over Mullinahone, doubled the two-time All-Ireland SHC winner’s county senior medal haul, following the 1989 success against Holycross-Ballycahill.

Former communications minister Pat Rabbitte has said his retired garda driver told him of rumours on the Garda “grapevine” about Maurice McCabe, including that he could not be trusted with children.

A fertility expert has warned that plans to permit surrogacy in Ireland are too restrictive and that people would continue to seek surrogacy abroad even though it remains a grey area.

A fertility expert has warned that plans to permit surrogacy in Ireland are too restrictive and that people would continue to seek surrogacy abroad even though it remains a grey area.

Four Limerick-based students are to be allowed back into the house they have been renting following a ruling by a High Court judge.

This September, Stephen Cluxton will aim to become only the second man in GAA history to lift the Sam Maguire Cup on three consecutive occasions, the first being Wexford football captain Seán O’Kennedy between 1915 and ’17.

A new regulatory framework for water safety at Irish swimming pools is to be implemented following the death of a three-year-old boy last year.

CCTV footage revealed the final movements of Ronan Kennedy, aged three years and ten months, at the Quality Hotel in Youghal, Co Cork.

A father, whose three-year-old son drowned, was told the children using the hotel’s kids’ club should wait for armbands to be given out by staff, an inquest heard.

Children entering a hotel pool area were instructed to wait to be given armbands by kids club staff, an inquest heard.

As 'Jackie' opens in cinemas, Ed Power looks at her love of and visits to Ireland.

Celtic youngster Eoghan O’Connell has unshakeable belief in his ability to retain his place in an oversubscribed Hoops defence.

The history of Gaelic football is littered with disputes, controversies, and occasional pronouncements that its extinction was both imminent and welcome, writes Paul Rouse

Celtic first team coach John Kennedy has said they are looking to be an attacking side under Brendan Rodgers.

With the sun blazing down on a splendid looking Turner’s Cross for yesterday evening’s international between the Republic of Ireland and Belarus, one couldn’t help but feel not only pride in being Irish, but pride in being from Cork.

Last Saturday evening when Gary Brennan stood on the steps of the Hogan Stand, it served as a reminder of another fact of the county he represents so well.

There was an echo of Ballyporeen when the former first lady of the United States, Nancy Reagan, was laid to rest beside her husband Ronald in the grounds of his presidential library in California over the weekend.

The A&E at University Hospital Limerick has been described as a ‘cattle mart’ where elderly female patients on trolleys are being robbed of their dignity.

A steering group to develop a national cancer strategy for the next 10 years has been established by Health Minister Leo Varadkar.

Good films and a great atmosphere contributed to another success in Schull, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Helen O’Callaghan says the dangers on farms can be underestimated.

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Lance Armstrong insists he would never cheat — at golf.

A businessman has been disqualified from being a director of a company for the next seven years over his failure to deliver a statement of financial affairs following the liquidation of his company.

The official liquidator to the former operator of the Unicorn restaurant has told the High Court the firm’s directors are in contempt of court for failing to file outstanding accounts with the Companies Registration Office.

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Sinn Féin pulled off the previously unthinkable electoral feat of winning a seat in each of the five electoral areas in Co Tipperary, increasing their council representation from one to five.

It wasn’t the All Star that capped James O’Donoghue’s marvellous 2013 season but the wink that greeted it.

For many of the players honoured in Croke Park yesterday as ‘Stars of the 80s,’ an All-Ireland senior football medal simply eluded them, while for a few of them it was never more than a dream.

Former Celtic defender John Kennedy admits he would try to unsettle Mario Balotelli if he was playing against the temperamental AC Milan striker tomorrow night.

Drinks giant Diageo has announced a net growth in sales of 5% for the year to end June but said its Irish operations continued to be challenging with Guinness sales here down 5%.

Eoin Kelly’s nine points were not enough to save Mullinahone from a heavy drubbing (1-18 to 0-9) by Éire Óg, Nenagh in the second round of the Tipperary senior hurling championship at Boherlahan.

Author of The Field, John B Keane, would have travelled to Co Donegal to hear the case of a family split by a contested will over a family farm, a court heard yesterday.

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