They marched in their hundreds, retracing the footsteps of the volunteers who took to the roads of Co Cork on Easter Sunday 1916.

A fleet of ‘Banner Bangers’ was on parade in Ennis yesterday ready to lead the mass exodus from Clare today to Dublin for the All-Ireland final hurling replay.

The State spent almost €17m last year keeping 27 troubled children in specialised residential care.

FIRE fighters in Limerick city and county will no longer have to deal with water shortages on call-outs with the delivery of three water tenders which will have capacity for 25.5 tons (25,500 litres) of water.

THE state is paying private residential childcare companies in the region of €14,000 a week to look after individual children, while beds remain empty in homes run by the Health Service Executive (HSE).

CARE workers say they are powerless to prevent a repeat of the Tracey Fay tragedy because their hands are tied by the law.

SOCIAL care workers are “walking on eggshells” and feel they cannot respond in a normal and natural way to children’s needs due to the increasingly strict guidelines they must adhere to.

I SUPPORT Cork Corporation’s efforts to address traffic congestion.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin has admitted that administering mood-altering drugs to children in care is “not the best response” to treating them.