They have another jersey for the wall now. Right up there alongside the Irish one, a Sam Warburton jersey from the World Cup quarter-final in 2011 and the prized geansaí of Kiwi legend, Richie McCaw.

Tricolours erected to mark Ireland reaching the finals of the Euro 2012 Championship still hang on many buildings on the main street of Blessington.

A Dublin plasterer has been given a two-year suspended sentence for letting another man have €14000 worth of cannabis resin in his car.

A father-of-10 who was found shot dead in a pool of blood had been involved in a long-running feud with members of his extended family, an inquest heard tonight.