Dublin U20 manager Tom Gray expressed relief after surviving Galway’s spirited challenge in the Eirgrid All-Ireland football semi-final at Glennon Brothers Pearse Park.

Galway manager Padraic Joyce says his men will need to sharpen up if they are to dethrone champions Mayo in the Connacht U20 final next Wednesday in Tuam.

Maria Kirrane is a leading advocate at UCC for applying the small steps taken by the college on sustainability across the whole of the city, writes

CO Wexford father Diarmuid Flood who last April killed his wife and children before setting fire to their home and shooting himself in the head and was “very disturbed” and was not in his “normal senses”, the inquest into the deaths of the Flood family from Clonroche heard yesterday.

The crisis in the stricken west African region of Darfur, which has left over a million people homeless, will only get worse, an Irish aid worker warned today.