The WAKO Junior World Championship finished on Saturday and the Irish team left with their best ever medal haul.

It is believed a fire which claimed the life of a five-year-old girl in Co. Roscommon on Sunday night may have been connected to an incident which took place earlier that night in a local nightclub.

IT’S been a very good July for Church Cross, Skibbereen dairy farmer Jerry Hegarty. A couple of weeks ago he won his second All-Ireland Intermediate Road-bowling title in a titanic man-to-man struggle with Ulster champion Harry Toal.

CLAMPERS were issued with a parking ticket in Galway after a member of the public tipped off the gardaí.