The High Court has struck out an action for damages by a former altar boy who claims he was sexually abused by a member of a religious order over 40 years ago.

The GAA can reverse some decisions, but others remain cast in stone. It all depends on the counties involved.

THE similarities between them first. The two men were defenders by trade and very good ones, the older of the pair being what the reporters of yesteryear liked to term “a veritable colossus” in his under-age days.

Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers new paperback series, the River Café Pocket books, cost around €13. They feature delicious recipes from London’s acclaimed River Café.

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O'Loughlin Gaels 2-12 Young Irelands 2-10

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A YOUNG Kanturk man helped Ireland to an impressive fourth place in the International Young Butcher Competition in Zurich.

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IT'S LATE November, chilly night in Gowran, another evening of drudge, of trudge through the sludge after more weeks of heavy rain, for 23 of the parish's finest. But no one's complaining.

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