We may well admire the whistleblower in the abstract but the organisations we, and they, belong to, are more primitive in their reactions, writes Mary Morrissy

A retired couple were among three Irish people who died after a house fire on the outskirts of London.

Cork 1-10 Mayo 0-10: Ephie Fitzgerald admitted that collecting his first piece of silverware as Cork ladies senior football team manager on Saturday came as a huge relief.

Ephie Fitzgerald collected his first piece of silverware as Cork ladies senior football team manager this evening – as the Rebelettes powered to a fourth successive Lidl Ladies National League Division 1 title.

A heavy young man launched himself from the balcony of a crowded Kerry nightclub landing on a young nurse on the dance floor below, a court heard.

Leinster Colleges SAFC final - St Benildus College (Dublin) 2-7 Marist College (Westmeath) 1-6: Goals in the first quarter by Paddy Flaherty and Joe Rafferty proved pivotal as St Benildus claimed a first provincial title in Saturday’s Leinster Colleges final at O’Connor Park.

South Kerry manager John Sugrue played down the row that developed between some of his players and Legion at the final whistle.

Tipperary 3-21 Louth 0-7: “Is it worth anything to us really,” questioned Peter Creedon.

AIB Munster Club JFC: Glin (Limerick) 1-8 Kill (Waterford) 0-8

Ballintubber 3-9 St Brigid’s 1-13

St Brigid’s 3-12 St Faithleach’s 0-7

The DPP has asked for an order preventing a convicted sex offender from contacting children online after a court heard he was using Twitter to claim he worked for the band One Direction.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has asked for an order preventing a convicted sex offender from contacting children online after a court heard he was using Twitter to claim he worked for the band One Direction.

Tipperary 3-17 Laois 4-9

It’s being joked that Labour councillors are such an endangered species in Cork that the two remaining should be given sanctuary at Fota Wildlife Park.

Chairman of the Gaelic Games Doctors’ Association, Dr Danny Mulvihill, has queried the concerns about a rise in serious hip injuries and the danger of kidney failure among Gaelic players.

A well-known Labour councillor has quit the party, saying it has abandoned the very people it was supposed to represent.

Kerry 0-17 IT Tralee 0-8

1. Páraic Duffy, Director general

Adam, Ahern, Black, Bolger, Brennan, Breslin — the names read like poetry under the Menin Gate. Molloy, Moran, Morgen, Mulvihill, Murphy, Murray — all buried in unknown graves in Flanders soil.

Former junior minister Willie Penrose has applied to rejoin the Labour Parliamentary Party, 23 months after he resigned the whip over the closure of Mullingar barracks.

A long-serving county councillor’s shock resignation was prompted by power being stripped from local authorities.

Cork County Council has been urged to acquire, as a potential floating museum or restaurant, one of two Irish Naval Service ships due to be decommissioned.

A luxurious robe belonging to one of the Titanic’s most controversial survivors has been added to a popular exhibition about the doomed liner.

The chairman of the Gaelic Games Doctors’ Association (GGDA) hopes common sense will prevail in terms of hydration protocols in this weekend’s championship games, revealing player could lose “4 or 5% of their bodyweight” in these sweltering conditions.

Galway 1-12 Tipperary 0-11

Galway 1-12 Tipperary 0-11

Irish Heart Foundation has said that commercial interests have been put before the health of Irish children in the revised code from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI).

Offaly 2-10 Tipperary 1-08

Nearly a thousand tech jobs are available in some of the world’s top companies, but Ireland does not produce enough skilled graduates to fill them.

The Irish Heart Foundation has repeated its call for a tax on caffeine-filled “energy” drinks after a study warned they can cause heart problems and, potentially, death.

Calls are being made for a 10% tax to be placed on all sugar-sweetened drinks.

GAA president Liam O’Neill has launched a remarkable broadside against inter-county managers, claiming they wield too much power.

GAA doctors’ chief Danny Mulvihill has warned he and other inter-county medics will quit if the new sideline regulations aren’t relaxed.

Kildare senior football team doctor Danny Mulvihill will openly contravene the new sideline regulations this weekend.

Documentary makers say steelworkers in France whose futures look uncertain will “probably feel very nervous” when they see how employees were treated by one of the world’s richest men after he closed a plant in Co Cork in 2001.

A 61-year-old man who stole over €20,000 in a “graves for sale” scam has been jailed for two years.

With increasing numbers of people booking their holidays online, traditional travel agents have been warned to embrace the digital world or risk being left behind.

DOWN may have made history on Saturday, but manager James McCartan still believes the sooner the dreaded six-day turnaround is put out to grass the better – and fairer – it will be for losing provincial finalists.

Tipperary’s senior footballers know they face an ongoing battle to win over the sceptics in a traditional hurling county.