Latest: The principal of a south side Dublin school says it would be "devastating" if its playing fields have been sold.

"The one thing I took from it was I had been hurling with lads for 30 years and I thought I knew them but I didn’t f***ing know them at all. You’d get talking with lads when you’re walking with them. You’d be at home thinking about things and you find out other lads would be thinking the same things."

SEAN MELLY has been appointed chairman of Digicom, the Dublin-based firm which specialises in the areas of audio visual, document management and digital office equipment.