Former chairman of Clare GAA Michael McDonagh is spearheading a campaign for the county board to follow the Cork GAA lead by issuing a commemorative jersey marking one of the most high profile victims of the War of Independence in the Banner County.

Noel Walsh and Gabriel Keating didn’t set out to become pioneers in the early 1970s, rather both men were simply unhappy with the set-up in front of them.

THE company at the heart of a migrant labour scandal at Dublin’s Port Tunnel was yesterday accused of intimidating Polish workers in an attempt to track down the sources of an Irish Examiner investigation into abuses of labour law.

THE consortium building Dublin’s Port Tunnel has pledged to directly employ Polish workers if the Warsaw-based company at the centre of a migrant labour scandal does not comply with Irish labour law.