Mayo 1-12 Galway 0-13: Andrew Farrell’s goal 10 minutes from the break helped Mayo to their first Connacht junior football title since 2012.

The manager of a Marks & Spencer food store has denied claims by a former employee that staff were being given impossible deadlines by which to check food expiry dates.

A former sales adviser in the food section in the Killarney branch of Marks and Spencer Ireland says he was unfairly dismissed.

Cashel will face the biggest test of their superb ODM Munster Senior Cup run when they visit Cork Constitution in the semi-finals on October 13.

Dolphin and Highfield will contest the Cork Charity Cup final while Young Munster and UL Bohemian go head-to-head in the Limerick competition decider following the four semi-finals played over the weekend.

Galway’s powerful showing in the first period of extra-time dumped the holders, Sligo, out of the Connacht Junior Championship in last night’s quarter-final at Kilcoyne Park, Tubbercurry.

James Reilly, the health minister, has been accused of hypocrisy after appointing yet another expert on a €164,000-a-year contract to tackle the waiting list and trolley count crisis.

RICHMOND took another step closer to winning their third Munster Junior League title with an 11-5 victory over nearest challengers Galbally in a Division 1 top of the table clash at the Limerick venue.

My first memory is of rain.

DEVELOPER David Daly and his children have taken legal proceedings aimed at preventing the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) insisting on repayment of their €457 million loans with AIB or the appointing a receiver over properties.

GOLDEN Kite landed the €50,000 Gigginstown House Midland National at Kilbeggan last night, getting the better of Decoy Daddy on the run-in after the last fence fall of narrow leader Classic Frontier and then surviving a Stewards Enquiry.

TEENAGER Eddie Linehan registered his first racecourse success when getting Shanghai Star home a short-head winner of the Sligo Claiming Race at Sligo last night.

REFEREES were kept plenty busy in the WJ Dolan Tyrone SFC quarter-finals over the weekend with eight players dismissed as Dromore, Ardboe, Clonoe and Donaghmore booked semi-final spots.

PATIO continued trainer David Marnane’s superb season when landing the ‘Thanks To Ballinrobe Race Sponsors 2008’ Race at Ballinrobe yesterday.

COUNTY Waterford householders will continue to have to shell out a flat fee of €150 per annum for their waste collection service, though the council has received a €2 million plus grant to help meet the cost of dealing with landfills in the region.

South-East Correspondent Neans McSweeney reports on the costly business of waste management.

A LOCAL authority which was told the Environmental Protection Agency intends to refuse it permission for a waste licence at a planned landfill is expected to appeal the decision next week.

Waste situation in Waterford has reached crisis point, writes South-East Correspondent Neans McSweeney.

AS workers at a CoWaterford landfill prepare to wind down the operation, householders are bracing themselves for a record hike in refuse charges.

AS workers at a County Waterford landfill prepare to wind down the operation, householders are bracing themselves for a record hike in refuse charges.

DAIRYGOLD said it has taken action to ensure that there will be no reoccurrence of the recent bad odours resulting from the spreading of organic waste on two Waterford farms.

HOUSEHOLDERS in Waterford who don’t pay up or who dump their refuse in neighbours’ bins are being warned that they will be caught, have their service withdrawn and be fined.

AN environmental solutions company which proposes to develop a recycling facility in Waterford is being told it will have to wait for planning after the council said it is seeking further information on the project from the developers.

Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott was finally back in town tonight after a five-year campaign brought a statue of the iconic figure onto a Dublin street.

A campaign by fans of iconic Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott to have a statue erected in his memory will come to fruition tonight when it is unveiled in Dublin’s city centre.

WATERFORD County Council has proposed a private meeting next week to discuss waste disposal, sparking fears that part of the service is to be privatised.

STUNNED county councillors in Waterford say they can not support proposals to double refuse charges in the region, as is proposed by the local authority to meet its spiralling debts.

REFUSE charges in several parts of the country are expected to double in the next three to five years.

The trial of two gardaí accused of beating a protester at the May Day 2002 Reclaim the Streets demonstration continued in legal argument in the absence of the jury for most of the day in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court,

SIX Irish Examiner journalists have been nominated for the 2004 ESB media awards.

Senior officers have identified each of the three gardaí on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The trial of three gardaí accused of beating a Reclaim the Streets protestor on the head with their batons has continued in legal argument in the absence of the jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Three gardaí have gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of beating a 2002 Reclaim the Streets protestor on the head with their batons.

Three gardaí accused of assaulting a member of the public during the Reclaim the Streets protest on College Green, Dublin in May 2002 have gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man was arrested today by detectives investigating the murder of man in Belfast city centre three years ago.

The Dublin Circuit Criminal Court trial for three gardaí who face charges of assaulting protesters at the 2002 'Reclaim the Streets' protest has been set.

I SEE that the Taoiseach has come out in support of Michael McDowell’s attack on Sinn Féin (Irish Examiner, Dec 11).

Trial dates have been set by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for six gardaí who face charges of assaulting protesters at the "Reclaim the Streets" incidents last year.

Six gardaí who were charged with assaulting protesters at the 'Reclaim the Streets' riots last year will have their trial dates fixed on July 15.

By Caroline O'Doherty

WHEN Brian Murphy was born 18 years ago today, his mother Kathleen learned her youngest child of four boys and two girls had Down’s Syndrome.

Northern First Minister David Trimble has challenged Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to act after accusing the IRA of direct