Missing the All-Ireland final was never an option for Seán Morrissey. The cast and ensuing four-week recovery would have to wait.

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A Wicklow man has had his six year prison sentence for violently assaulting a father in his home reduced to four by the Court of Appeal.

Three coffins; three hearses outside the church in the village of Crooke; three men who loved boats and fishing from the time they could walk.

While the fallout from Tipperary’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kilkenny continues to reverberate, there were some green shoots for Premier hurling fans with victory in the Carrigdhoun Munster Inter-county U15 competition on Saturday.

A Wicklow brother and sister who assaulted a man outside his home leaving him with extensive head and facial injuries have been jailed for six years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A brother and sister who assaulted a man outside his own home are to be sentenced next year after a judge ordered a probation report on the pair.

Six people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the murder of Michael Connors in Wexford.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the death of a 21-year-old man in Wexford town last month.

Investigators are today trying to piece together the circumstances leading up to a multiple car crash that claimed the lives of a father and son.

Several travellers have been awarded hundreds of euro compensation after they were refused service in pubs, the Equality Tribunal revealed today.

A group of fishermen is threatening to take the Government to court over plans to cut the number of people allowed to fish for salmon in the country’s waters.