The Stillorgan gaelscoil were deserving winners as they withstood a brave second-half comeback from Kilkenny CBS.

A report by a leading academic has called for lending restrictions on credit unions to be eased in order to provide consumers with more mortgage options — for which there is “pent-up demand”, according to one of the sector’s biggest bodies.

A Galway man has described the “surreal” evacuation of Brussels Airport yesterday morning, and said the panic caused by the explosions resulted in a stampede as people tried to escape the departure gates.

Adventurer Ian McKeever took “the road less travelled”, mourners at his requiem Mass were told.