UL 2-30 WIT 1-20

The love affair started well over 20 years ago, when Eamonn Langton, owner of Langton’s Hotel in Kilkenny, was on one of his regular trips to the British capital.

Wexford 1-21 Kilkenny 0-21 (after extra time)

Wexford 1-21 Kilkenny 0-21(after extra-time)

A tiny airline is offering a new reason to lose weight before your next trip - tickets sold not by the seat, but by the kilogram.

Kevin Walsh will continue as Sligo senior football manager for the 2013 campaign, following his reappointment at a County Board meeting last night.

And so Championship 2012 ended with the most predictable winners imaginable after the least predictable journey imaginable.

Coveted like a neighbour's wife, the Michael Moynihan End of Hurling Season Awards are back for 2012.

UP to six-in-10 patients fitted with faulty hip implants will face replacement surgery in the future, according to a legal firm working on behalf of some of those affected.

ARMED gardaí have been patrolling a housing estate in Waterford city following the escalation of a feud that led to the stabbing of a man on Monday.

THE public row over the Prison Service and conditions at Mountjoy Prison escalated yesterday when the chairman of the Mountjoy Visiting Committee disputed claims from an outspoken former committee member.

Senior star Richie Hogan has been named to start for Kilkenny in tomorrow's Bord Gais Energy All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling final against Clare, despite concerns over an ankle injury earlier in the week.

AN ARMY bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion on a device found at a hotel in Waterford city on Saturday, just two days after a suspect explosive device was dealt with at a house in the city.

Liam Kearns future as Laois senior football manager is not under any threat, despite his side's six-point loss to Wexford in the Leinster championship at Croke Park on Sunday.

A NEWBORN baby born shortly after her 16-year-old mother was rammed by a car during a long-standing feud was “critical” in hospital last night.

The investigation into who masterminded and bankrolled the plane bombing plot will be a global and multifaceted probe led by British, US and Pakistani authorities but reliant on intelligence from other countries, counterterrorism experts said Friday.

Afghan guerrillas have undermined huge armies time and again, but the Taliban and its long-staying guest, Osama bin Laden, face big troubles if they take to the hills of southern Afghanistan to wage a guerrilla war.