IN A country of petty injustices, why does nobody in authority mention them?

Suspensions totalling 60 weeks have been handed out to players and officials involved in a melee near the end of a recent Meath SHC game between Gaeil Colmcille and Drumree at Longwood.

Two youngsters clashed in the 1987 All-Ireland minor final, Tipperary v Offaly, who featured in a lot of headlines subsequently. You know them well...

A Dublin man convicted of a gangland drive-by murder has won the right to appeal his case to the Supreme Court.

DETAILS of the planned €500,000 memorial to victims of institutional child abuse will be announced next summer more than three years after it was proposed.

BALLINACOURTY dramatically dethroned title holders Stradbally in a tension-filled Waterford SFC final at Fraher Field, Dungarvan, yesterday.

POLICE are examining a revolver recovered from an Irish man they arrested in a Costa del Sol drugs den.

SURVIVORS of institutional abuse have told the Government they will not support a national monument dedicated to their childhood suffering — as the Government is refusing to listen to them.

A EUROPE-WIDE hunt is under way to track down two Irish crime bosses wanted in relation to the investigation into the Christy Kinahan international crime syndicate.

WITH the publication of the Pope’s letter concerning abuse by religious orders in Ireland imminent, may I ask people who have been so supportive of survivors of abuse in the past once again to show their solidarity with us by engaging in some form of protest in their church as the pontiff’s letter is being read.

SURVIVORS of a procedure where the pelvis of women in labour was split in two have demanded the resignation of Health Minister Mary Harney over her failure to establish an inquiry.

IRISH nationals in Haiti yesterday told of the horrific impact of the massive earthquake.

HOW a TD can sit in his recession-proof job, for now, and decide it is okay for a nervous driver to use alcohol as a stimulant leaves me somewhat bewildered.

A €500,000 budget has been made available by the Government for the memorial promised in honour of the victims of institutional child abuse.

FINGERS were jabbed through the air, thick with recrimination and hurt – the only surprise is that for once the Government wasn’t the target.

Children’s Minister Barry Andrews today insisted Irish people no longer have the deference towards the Catholic Church that allowed institutional child abuse to thrive for decades.

THE wall of officialdom refused to crumble, right up to the very end.

A GANG hitman was arrested yesterday after shooting a doorman in the face because he had been refused entry twice.

GARDAÍ conducted inquiries yesterday into the identity of a man, thought to be Irish, arrested by Spanish police investigating the murder of Dublin gangster Paddy Doyle in the Costa del Sol on Monday.

Won’t you come into my parlour?” said the spider to the fly.

Kevin Doyle will tonight win his first competitive cap for the Republic of Ireland – netting his dad a €15,000 windfall.

I AM a non-smoking publican (having previously smoked for over 30 years) in a small village in the South-East.

BIRR’S All-Ireland club hurling winning manager Pat Joe Whelahan has criticised the GAA’s disciplinary system after being forced to watch his side defeat Castletown in the Leinster championship from the stands.

EDDIE Enright is expected to play through the pain barrier for Thurles Sarsfields in Sunday’s Tipperary SHC final clash against Mullinahone in Thurles.

The mother of hill walker Joan O’Leary, who died after a fall while hill-walking in Kerry, revealed today how horrific accidents have robbed her of two children.