Two years ago, St Saviours and Ballinameela faced off in a battle to avoid the drop from top flight football but this weekend both booked their places in the Waterford SFC quarter-finals.

Kilmurry-Ibrickane, champions for the past two seasons, were brought back down to earth at Cusack Park on Saturday when they succumbed to an impressive Cratloe by 0-11 to 0-4, in round one.

Potholes can kill. Our health and safety laws are truly an ass. Surely our legislators realise that potholes cause tyre sidewall rupture.

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A 34-year-old Wicklow man accused of murder has denied returning to the crime scene to look for a phone dropped during the shooting.

Irish families devastated by the anti-nausea drug were awarded a maximum of £21,000. It was never enough, they tell Helen O’Callaghan

Two brothers who stabbed a father and son during the course of a burglary in what a judge described as “having no legitimate excuse or motivation” were sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

CONTENTIOUS plans for a €40 million private hospital for Ennis have been thrown out by An Bord Pleanála.

CLARE County Council has come under fire for giving the go-ahead to contentious plans for a €40 million hospital in Ennis.

OPPONENTS of a planned €40 million private hospital on the outskirts of Ennis yesterday outlined their opposition to the project at an oral hearing.

FARMERS have lost some of their best stock after cattle rustling incidents in Kerry and west Limerick.

PLANNING permission has been given for a €40 million private hospital on the outskirts of Ennis after councillors overwhelmingly voted through a rezoning to accommodate the proposal.

UP to 40 beds have been omitted in a revised plan for a private hospital on the outskirts of Clare’s county town.

PLANS have been lodged for a €50 million 140 bed private hospital in Ennis, Co Clare, that will provide 400 new jobs when operational.

THREE candidates have been nominated to contest the election of the next president of the Irish Farmers Association.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy, staying with relations during a midterm break, died after a fall from a car bonnet, an inquest heard.

THE director of the project to reintroduce eagles to Killarney National Park yesterday said two white-tailed eagles found dead near Glencar, Co Kerry, had been poisoned “without a shadow of a doubt”.

A father of three who punctured the lung of "an innocent young man" after stabbing him in "a deliberate and brutal way" has been jailed for five years by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

DESPITE objections from farmers, white-tailed sea eagles are to be introduced into Kerry this year.

CONTROVERSY continues to surround plans to introduce white-tailed sea eagles to Kerry and West Cork.

A HUGE bird of prey extinct in Cork and Kerry for about 100 years may be reintroduced to Killarney National Park.

THERE will be no forced redundancies at the ESB generating station in Tarbert, Co Kerry, which is to close in 2010 with the loss of 129 jobs, the ESB pledged yesterday.

THERE will be no forced redundancies at the ESB generating station in Tarbert, Co Kerry, which is to close in 2010 with the loss of up to 129 jobs, the ESB pledged yesterday.

RESOURCES have nothing to do with hospital hygiene, according to Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney.

IN JULY, our national newspapers informed us of how the CIA has been issued with operational carte blanche in Ireland for the purposes of countering global terrorism, although Justice Minister Michael McDowell refuted such claims.

THERE are fears the ESB may scrap plans to bring a controversial powerline through north Kerry, as landowners and farming organisations continue to be divided on a compensation package.

One of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother told gardaí he “played no role in the death of that poor woman”, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A MOTORIST pleaded guilty to driving without a seat belt yesterday but said the safety laws should be changed.

A woman who defrauded the Department of Social Welfare of nearly £40,000 over a seven-year period has been ordered to do 150 hours community service by Judge Elizabeth Dunne.