It started just five days after Dublin’s All-Ireland triumph with the news that Brian Dooher was pulling the shutters down on his 16-year career and only ended last week with Kevin Hughes’ decision to follow suit.

THE bodies of two ministers have been exhumed from a Presbyterian churchyard in to make way for a couple who have bought the building to use as a family home.

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The vastly-experienced Brian Dooher will start for Tyrone against Monaghan in Sunday's Ulster SFC quarter-final at Healy Park (throw-in 3.30pm).

A DISPUTE over ownership of a strip of land between the home of Pat Kenny and his neighbour erupted into physical confrontation shortly after the broadcaster voiced fears that there might be attempts to develop properties in what he called “our enclave” in Dalkey, Dublin, it was claimed in the High Court yesterday.

FR AIDAN TROY has been called in to broker a truce between two families feuding over the burial plot of a suicide victim.

A priest has been called in to broker a truce between two families feuding over a burial plot, it emerged today.

JOHN, Edward and Rory McMahon are alive today only because of the bravery of their sister Ciara.

Lawyers for a detective at the centre of garda corruption allegations in Co Donegal have accused the detective's wife of lying to the Morris Tribunal set up to investigate the claims.