Tributes have been paid to a young Kerry GAA player who died after an accidental clash during a school final.

The principal of one of the schools involved in the first black card controversy has hit out at comments suggesting members of their management team inappropriately influenced officials during the contested fixture.

PARENTS supporting a controversial all-Irish education policy at a new school in Dingle yesterday called for a boycott of the survey on the issue being carried out by the Department of Education.

EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin has intervened in the bitter row over the policy under which subjects are taught through Irish in a new school in Dingle, Co Kerry.

THE row over the Irish-only policy in a new school in Dingle deepened yesterday, with claims that women providing accommodation for students on Irish language summer courses (mná tí) are being pressurised to support the school’s policy.