Castlehaven 1-14 Ballincollig 1-11 (Cork SFC quarter-final): Expectations were high ahead of this meeting of the last two Cork SFC champions, but Castlehaven and Ballincollig went a long way towards delivering in Dunmanway on Saturday night.

Industrial stoppages could be just days away at Bord Na Móna, with staff due to begin a ballot for action today.

Industrial unrest is brewing at Bord na Móna over a 3.5% pay rise demand.

Over half of au pairs earn less than €3 a hour, according to a survey which says Ireland "has become inextricably linked with cheap childcare and domestic work in the private house."

A man killed by a rockfall inside a mine in Tipperary has been named as Mario Francis from the Philippines.

Talks will reconvene at the Labour Relations Commission today between management and workers at Lagan Brick in Co Cavan.

Workers at Lagan Brick in Cavan are demanding more information about why the company shut up shop last month.

A PROMISING GAA player who was just one month short of his 15th birthday has died in tragic circumstances in West Cork.

THERE was mixed news for the country’s mine workers yesterday.

More than half of the workers at Tara Mines today struck agreement with bosses over cost-cutting plans after weeks of crisis talks.

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, May 6), Jack Lane drew attention to John Regan’s review of my book, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press) where the reviewer stated that Peter Hart was “fortunate in finding survivors of the ambush alive and lucid nearly 70 years after the event… one of whom, he notes, visited the site with him”.

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, May 6), Jack Lane drew attention to John Regan’s review of my book, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press) where the reviewer stated that Peter Hart was “fortunate in finding survivors of the ambush alive and lucid nearly 70 years after the event… one of whom, he notes, visited the site with him”.

An enhanced redundancy deal has been accepted by 300 SIPTU members at NEC Ballivor.

Unions representing the 350 workers laid off at the NEC Semiconductors plant in Co Meath tonight said all hopes of saving the jobs were gone.

One of the world’s leading microchip manufacturers, NEC Electronics, tonight blamed soaring production costs for the loss of 350 jobs with the closure of its Co Meath factory.

A man killed in a mining accident in Co Meath lost his brother in a similar tragedy years before, it emerged tonight.