Kildare president Seamus Aldridge is surprised, given Ned Quinn’s previous experience in Kilkenny, that the CCCC chairman decided the county can’t host their All-Ireland SFC qualifier against Mayo in St Conleth’s Park on Saturday because of capacity issues.

Kildare president Seamus Aldridge is surprised, given Ned Quinn’s previous experience in Kilkenny, that the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) chairman decided the county can’t host their All-Ireland SFC qualifier against Mayo in St Conleth’s Park on Saturday because of capacity issues.

The developer of Longboat Quay, Bernard McNamara, is in negotiations to complete the fire safety work required at the development using public money.

It looks like Bernard McNamara, the man who built Longboat Quay, will get the job of sorting out its fire safety deficiencies without residents having to foot the bill, says Michael Clifford

More than 600 people will be forced to leave their homes in Dublin unless remedial fire safety work is carried out immediately.

The Longboat Quay development was found last year to have major deficiencies. We’ve

A report into fire safety on the Kildare housing estate where six homes were burnt to the ground in just 30 minutes has highlighted widespread fire safety concerns.

Owen Keegan needed this like a hole in the head last June. The Dublin City manager was already in the wars over Garth Brooks, then he heard he potentially had on his hands another Priory Hall.

Questions put to the Dublin Fire Brigade:

A man who claims he got stuck in the mud at a festival and was knocked over, breaking his ankle, has sued the concert promoters.

Munster chairman Robert Frost admitted Sunday’s hurling final was one of the most challenging organisational feats faced by the provincial council.

No JCBs will be required to complete the necessary remedial work at Páirc Uí Chaoimh ahead of the Munster hurling final, according to Cork GAA senior administrator Diarmuid O’Donovan.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh will be confirmed as the venue for the Munster senior hurling final early next week, a source close to the Cork County Board revealed last night.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh is expected to host the Munster senior hurling final on July 13, provincial sources have told the Irish Examiner.

Wicklow County Council’s legal team has asked that recordings of phone calls made at Bray Garda Station during the investigation into the deaths of two firefighters be made available to their inquest.

An Irishman linked to a criminal clan has pleaded guilty to charges he used forged documents to sell horns from endangered black rhinos to a New York collector for more than €35,000.

An Irishman linked to a criminal clan pleaded guilty today to charges he used forged documents to sell horns from endangered black rhinos to a New York collector for more than £30,000.

An Irishman used forged documents to sell horns from endangered black rhinos to a New York collector for $50,000 (€37,000), prosecutors said yesterday.

The widespread antisocial behaviour on the day of the Swedish House Mafia gig in the Phoenix Park was the result of “ineffective” policing by Gardaí, according to music promoters MCD.

A new plan for the 20,000 tonnes-plus of Irish farm plastic recycled per year was the topic of the controversial meeting between Environment Minister Phil Hogan and Michael Lowry, TD — which took place six days after the Moriarty Report branded Mr Lowry as corrupt.

GAA president Christy Cooney is confident clubs will identify their members involved in the recent unsavoury scenes in Roscommon and Tyrone.

WE have had the Queen and the president, now it is time for the Kings.

A NATIONAL anti-litter initiative called The Countryside is Watching has been launched by the Irish Farmers Association and the farm plastic recycling organisation, Irish Farm Films Producers Group, which have a combined membership of 120,000 farmers and rural dwellers.

THE appearance of poets Derek Mahon and Adrienne Rich on yesterday’s English higher level Paper II was welcomed in Kilkenny, where students had made preparations with those in mind.

A NATIONAL network of plastic collection centres for farmers has been announced by the Irish Farm Film Producers Group.

MORE farm plastics recycling in Ireland has been called for by Michael Slattery, chairman of the Irish Farm Films Producers Group (IFFPG), which collects used silage bale wrap and pit covers for recycling.

COMPANIES that recycle other materials were urged yesterday to consider farm plastics.

AN inquiry is under way into the chaos faced by concert-goers who paid up to €552 to see Barbra Streisand.

BALLYDUFF have had all of their adult hurling and football teams excluded from competitions at county, divisional board and Munster levels for the remainder of this year.

Kerry 1-14 Limerick 0-24

Kerry 1-14 Limerick 0-24

Derry 1-16 Kerry 2-15

Derry 1-16 Kerry 2-15

Kerry 3-15

Waterford 2-26

Waterford 2-26 Kerry 1-12