Following the traditional ‘slamming shut’ of the transfer window, albeit at the markedly un-traditional time — before a ball has been kicked in anger — attention can now turn to how teams will line up and not to what gaps still need to be filled.

Self-confessed IRA man Michael Hayes could be questioned by the British authorities in connection with the Birmingham pub bombings, High Court judges have heard.

A crisis is looming at University Hospital Waterford over Christmas as up to 100 shifts will have no staff cover, it has been claimed.

A Catholic priest shot and killed Patrick Pearse and two other Irish republicans in west Cork during the Civil War, leading anti-Treaty IRA members later claimed, writes Niall Murray.

Gardaí have been asked to interview self-confessed IRA bomber Michael Hayes by lawyers acting for the Birmingham pub bombings inquests.

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An office manager who was wrongly portrayed as “an employee from hell” by her employer has been awarded €159,705 for being unfairly dismissed.

The death of Michael Hayes, president of Mary Immaculate College (MIC) in Limerick, occurred at the weekend.

A judge said yesterday that ‘peace now reigns’ between two west Clare brothers who were before the court on charges arising from friction between the two.

Defending champions Clonmel got their Munster Junior League campaign off to a winning start with a victory over one of their main challengers, Bandon.

A community rocked by one of the worst trawler tragedies in recent times will host a novel fundraiser today as it continues to await news from the RNLI as to whether a lifeboat station, established in the wake of five deaths, will become a permanent fixture in the area.

A woman was floored by an “indestructible” boxing machine while socialising in a Co Limerick nightclub with her boyfriend, a court heard.

A road rage incident got out of control when a man climbed into the cab of a truck, punched the driver, snatched his phone, and threatened that he would have stabbed him in the throat if he had a knife.

It was a day of shocks in the Bank of Ireland Munster Junior Cup as holders Shannon are knocked out by Cashel and both Muskerry and Midleton lost to sides in a lower division.

Storm Desmond caused the postponement of 11 of yesterday’s Munster Junior League games as only eight survived the weather.

The daughter of a trawlerman who drowned with four of his crew has claimed worker exploitation in Ireland’s fishing industry is the exception and not the norm.

The daughter of the tragic Athlone couple shot dead in Tunisia spent her birthday yesterday saying a tearful goodbye to her beloved parents.

It is the time of year when several clubs will be battling it out for silverware. Meanwhile, the province’s top Junior club, Clonmel, saw their hopes of going up to the Ulster Bank League suffer an serious blow by last weekend’s defeat to Dundalk.

Families of two Egyptian victims settle for €137,700 and €162,700.

Clonmel were crowned Munster Junior League champions for the first time as Junior Clubs again dominated in the Munster Junior Cup.

The family of an Egyptian fisherman who died when the Tit Bonhomme trawler sank off Glandore, Co Cork, three years ago has settled its High Court action for €262,700.

There have been many weather-related drownings off the south-west coast since what’s regarded as the worst in 1847 claimed the lives of 92 of the 110 passengers and crew onboard the Stephen Whitney.

Fishermen are almost 40 times more likely to be killed at work compared to the average worker.

One of the country’s most under-threat women sat in a Limerick court and heard that her partner, a notorious rapist, was now a changed man since meeting her and having a child with her.

THE spectre of someone suffering a heart attack, or another life-threatening illness, or being involved in a serious accident in a remote part of the South-West is fuelling concerns about likely cutbacks in ambulance services.

The widow of the drowned skipper of the doomed Tit Bonhomme trawler has called for an immediate review of how the 999 calls from the sinking vessel were handled the morning of the tragedy.

The widow of the skipper of the ill-fated Tit Bonhomme said yesterday was second hardest day of her life, as a jury at the inquest into the deaths of five crew on the fishing trawler returned verdicts of accidental death.

The change of course which led the fishing trawler Tit Bonhomme to smash into Adam’s Island in Glandore Harbour was due to “human intervention”, an inquest heard yesterday, in dramatic testimony that challenges aspects of the only report yet carried out into the tragedy.

The Marine Surveyor who investigated the wreckage of the Tit Bonhomme says that it was likely that the skipper Michael Hayes was not at the helm at the time of the crash.

The sole survivor of the Tit Bonhomme said he had slept for up to eight hours on the trawler’s fishing expedition in January last year, in a fresh statement that challenges the findings of the only official report conducted into the tragedy.

Rarely has a voice ever carried so much panic.

There could have been at least two more survivors of the Tit Bonhomme tragedy if there had been a quicker helicopter response, the widow of its skipper Michael Hayes claimed.

More lives could have been saved in the Tit Bonhomme fishing tragedy if the helicopter response had been quicker, the skipper’s widow believes.

A “GARBLED message” just before 6am on a Sunday and lasting just over three minutes alerted Valentia marine rescue centre to the tragedy of the fishing vessel Tit Bonhomme.

The report into the Tit Bonhomme trawler tragedy will recommend better enforcement of EU regulations governing working hours for fishermen.

A draft report into the sinking of a fishing trawler off the Cork coast appears to suggest the vessel may have been on auto-pilot when it became stranded at the entrance to its home port of Glandore.

The report into the Tit Bonhomme trawler tragedy is expected to focus on what roles crew fatigue and their training in emergency drills played in the disaster which claimed five lives.

A coastal community which witnessed one of the worst trawler tragedies in recent years has launched a bid to secure an inshore lifeboat.

A priest and a retired fisherman have accepted a major award on behalf of an entire community which played a vital role in recovering the bodies of five fishermen who drowned off the West Cork coast.

A tragedy that touched the hearts of the nation exactly 12 months ago was remembered in a fishing village last night.

The victims of the Tit Bonhomme trawler tragedy will be remembered during a special Mass next week to mark the first anniversary of the vessel’s sinking.