Easter Saturday, Macroom; the shifting of a collective mindset.

Gardaí are examining a possible drugs link after a pipe bomb was found outside a house in Cork yesterday —one of two pipe bomb incidents the Defence Forces dealt with in just 12-hours.

Gardaí have launched an investigation after a viable pipe bomb found in the garden of a house was wheeled in a pram through housing estates to a Garda station.

“Don’t let the game pass you by. Don’t worry about the outcome, worry about the job at hand. What are you going to do? Thinking about winning doesn’t mean you are going to win. Don’t sit back and wait for it.”

GOOD lawyers don’t look for popularity in the cases they take but even Kevin Feeney must have wondered how he got landed with one particular brief which looked like it could only put him in a lose-lose situation.

CELTS on the left, one, two, three..... RARRRRRRGH”.

Few people know the words of ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’, and fewer still know what they mean, so why, asks Ryle Dwyer, is playing ‘Ireland’s Call’ at rugby matches such a big deal?

Munster rookie JJ Hanrahan could hardly have asked for a better first competitive that Thomond Park on Friday night.

SO much physical and mental energy goes into preparing for an international test match that to have it called off as you are literally about to leave the dressing room must be emotionally draining.

JAMES LAST may or may not be tuning into the big match early on Saturday morning.

THERE’S no point in beating around the bush: the stand-out flashes of genius in the hurling and football championships have come in the last couple of weekends.

MUNSTER and Ireland stalwart Mick Galwey last night credited Moss Keane, who died yesterday, as one of the key inspirations behind the province’s remarkable European success in the professional era.

IT SEEMED entirely appropriate at a time of unprecedented activity in the construction sector in this country that Lansdowne Road should finally play host to the demolition experts.

ONE of the towns worst affected by November’s devastating floods yesterday moved a step closer to a full-scale flood relief scheme.

Flooding, ice and a drinking water outage caused chaos across Cork city and county today.

I have learned through harsh experience that every Australian side will fight to the death.

HE is considered by many to be the greatest Lion of them all. With an incredible five tours as a player and one as manager, 17 test appearances, including two winning test series against New Zealand and South Africa as captain, Willie John McBride’s pedigree as a legend of the game was cemented long before his retirement.

Charlie Mulqueen talks to rugby legend Gerald Davies about the principles of rugby, touring and being next year’s Lions manager.

Stormont ministers will be briefed today at their fortnightly Cabinet meeting on a bus accident which claimed the life of a teenager in the North.

A SCHOOLGIRL died and her cousin was critically injured when a lorry crashed into their schoolbus on a notoriously dangerous Northern Ireland road yesterday.

A schoolgirl died and her cousin was critically injured when a lorry crashed into their school bus on a notoriously dangerous road in the North today.

IDEALLY, Nickey Brennan would like to have formally assumed the role of GAA president in his native Kilkenny this weekend.

THERE were lessons for everybody in the Quigley report, said Martin Cullen on Thursday.

GOOD times for Irish rugby, good times for Eddie O’Sullivan.

THE annual Canon Hayes National Sports Awards in Tipperary will incorporate a new category this year in memory of the late international rugby player and coach, Mick Doyle.

Irish rugby player and coach Mick Doyle is to be honoured at a major national awards event in Tipperary next month, it emerged today.

THE recent tributes to Mick Doyle revealed his many contributions to Ireland.

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Mourners today heard how Irish rugby legend Mick Doyle was a great giant of a man and a loveable character who touched every one he met.

The funeral of former Irish rugby player and coach Mick Doyle is taking place today in Kildare.

Hugh Farrelly charts the colourful career of Mick Doyle, one of Irish rugby’s greatest characters.

THE sporting world united yesterday in paying tribute to former Irish rugby player and coach Mick Doyle, who died following a car accident in Dungannon, Co Tyrone.

TO understand Mick Doyle, to understand his great vitality, you should realise his extraordinary background.

NEWS of Mick Doyle’s death was received with a deep sense of shock in his native Kerry yesterday.

Former Irish international rugby coach Mick Doyle was driving to a business meeting when he was killed in a road crash, it emerged tonight.

The world of Irish and international rugby was today mourning the tragic death of one of its most colourful characters, Mick Doyle in a road accident in Co Tyrone.

Sports Minister John O'Donoghue has paid tribute to Irish rugby legend Mick Doyle who died tragically in a car crash this morning.

Former Irish international rugby coach Mick Doyle was killed in a road accident today.

CONCERNED people should be able to go into a garda station and find out if their neighbour is a paedophile or sex offender, a garda conference heard yesterday.

THE MAGNIFICENCE of Ireland’s triumphant march towards Triple Crown glory has captured the imagination of the country.

THERE was a bit of brouhaha on the airways this week after Martin Ferris’s replacement on Tralee Town Council proposed a motion condemning the decision by the IRFU not to play Amhrán na bhFiann at rugby internationals abroad.

IN 1989, Buck Shelford’s World Cup-winning All Blacks rolled into town and our rugby lives changed forever.