Legendary Tipperary hurler Michael Maher, whose death has occurred, was the last surviving member of the fearsome full-back line famously known as ‘Hell’s Kitchen’, having been predeceased by Kieran Carey and John Doyle.

Pre-tax profits at Glen Electric, the Northern Ireland-based division of electric appliance giant, Glen Dimplex last year decreased by 39% to £41.75m (€56.71m).

Pre-tax profits at Glen Electric, the Northern Ireland-based division of electric appliance giant Glen Dimplex, last year increased by 13.5% to £68.5m (€87.2m).

Sixty years ago, Tipperary had a youngster on the bench for one of the great Munster hurling finals.

The discussion at the Tipperary press night was wandering here and there and eventually stuck on the notion of full-back play.

Cork and Tipperary face each other in the All-Ireland semi-final on Sunday. Calm down, there are a few sleeps to go yet. To get you in the mood, we examine, in quotations, the relationship between the counties.

Pre-tax profits at Glen Electric, the Northern Ireland-based division of electric appliance giant Glen Dimplex, decreased by 4% to £60.3m (€72.4m) last year.

The end came with a telephone conversation on Friday evening.

All wax and no wick, all hat no cattle, all sizzle no steak — for years it looked like that was forever going to be the story of Drom-and-Inch GAA club in mid Tipperary.

A son of the mayor of Galway will be sentenced in June for the violent sexual assault of a nurse in a laneway.

A son of the mayor of Galway who violently sexually assaulted a nurse in a laneway causing her severe head injuries will face sentencing in June.

A COMPANY that provides the use of an MRI scanner to Cork University Hospital and which is run by consultants saw its profits fall slightly last year.

IT was steady as she goes for a consistent Mitchelstown side who were never seriously troubled by Urhan in this Cork JAFC quarter-final at Dunmanway.

WHEN Eddie Hogan emigrated to New York in 1985, he was leaving behind a different kind of famine.

ONE Tipperary hurling legend led the tributes to another last night following the death, aged 80, of eight-time All-Ireland senior medallist John Doyle.

TIPPERARY stars and officials paid tribute to John Doyle yesterday.

THE HSE has been forced to bail out a major hospital charity with taxpayers’ money.

He speaks softly but carried a big stick. Michael Maher was one of the greatest full-backs to ever play hurling. The Tipperary legend spoke to Michael Moynihan.

IN the gentle autumn sunlight, yesterday, relatives and friends came with flowers; some wiped tears away and crossed themselves as their lips moved in prayer.

Mallow 1-19 Castlelyons 0-9

A CORONER presiding at an inquest into the deaths of two young men in an horrific car crash in Co Kerry yesterday called for a change in the law and the possible introduction of speed limiters for young drivers.

A MOTHER who arrived at a scene where her 19-year-old son had been fatally attacked, saw blood on the road where he had died.

A 19-YEAR-OLD man arrested by gardaí in Killarney arising from an investigation into the murder of another teenager in the town was released without being charged.

A VERDICT of “unascertained death” has been recorded after a bar manager was found dead following after a golf outing.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of a 30-year-old man in Killarney, Co Kerry, at the weekend, yesterday appealed to people who saw him in a number of pubs in the town prior to his death to come forward.

CONCERN continues to grow about Kerry’s appalling road safety record.

A senior garda, Killarney Superintendent Michael Maher, has said poor communication infrastructure hampered Monday's emergency operation near Molls Gap.

RESPECTIVE team managers Michael Maher and Noel Lucey have a personal interest in the outcome of tomorrow’s All-Ireland junior camogie final between Clare and Dublin in Croke Park (1pm).

Ballingarry 1-15 Mullinahone 1-14

GARDAÍ are fed up working out of a temporary station in Castleisland, Co Kerry, and will refuse to work there from July 1.

CHRISTMAS 2004 will be one never to forget for all the wrong reasons for four families from Dublin’s northside after events in the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

The sentence date for convicted murderer Christopher Dunne for the fatal stabbing of teenager Alan Higgins over his mobile phone has been set by the Central Criminal Court.

UP to six houses in the Killarney area were searched yesterday by members of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and Kerry gardaí as part of an investigation into the activities of rogue traders.

Seventeen-year-old Christopher Dunne has been found guilty of the murder of Alan Higgins for his mobile phone at the Central Criminal Court.

The "only reasonable" verdict to be reached in the trial of a teenager accused of murdering Alan Higgins "is one of murder", a jury has heard at the Central Criminal Court.

The DNA of murdered schoolboy Alan Higgins was found on the clothes of the teenage accused, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.