Thirty one members of the Dublin County Amateur Boxing Board have been told by a judge to pay a €60,000 costs bill arising out of an unsuccessful legal foray against their parent body, the Irish Amateur Boxing Association.

This week’s revelation that Aryzta boss Owen Killian was paid a whopping €7m failed to spark an outcry, due in part to the deliberate low-profile enjoyed by the Roscommon man and the Swiss-Irish firm he heads, says Kyran Fitzgerald.

ARYZTA chief executive Owen Killian saw his total remuneration jump by around €5 million to €7m in the group’s last financial year, making him the highest paid head of a publicly-quoted Irish company.

A CO Cork town is to print its own “currency” to promote the shop local principle.

A young Belfast man told detectives he was in Dublin to meet someone about “finance and accommodation”, after his arrest at a Clondalkin apartment on suspicion of unlawfully possessing bomb-making material, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

Newtownshandrum boss Pat Morrissey says his side's All-Ireland club hurling final win was a victory for "sheer hard work".