CHAMPIONS Monaleen remain on track to defend their title.

THE Limerick SFC reign of Dromcollogher-Broadford is over as they crashed out at the semi-final stage at the hands of Monaleen.

Offaly 1-19 Limerick 1-13

Offaly 2-17 Limerick 3-13

Forensic accountant Peter Russell, who specialises in liquidations, sees the personal suffering every day that comes with the territory, writes Jennifer Hough

Auckland flanker Daniel Braid was named New Zealand’s rugby footballer of the year at the New Zealand Rugby Union awards on Thursday.

Shannon Schools 0-10 Colaiste an Spioraid Naoimh 1-6

Garryspillane 1-16 Patrickswell 0-14

Monaleen 1-12 Na Piarsaigh 1-12

Patrickswell 4-12 Ballybrown 1-9

Monaleen 2-9 Ballylanders 2-3

SENIOR players Seanie Buckley, Pat Ahern and Johnny McCarthy are included in the Limerick team to play Waterford in the Munster U21 FC semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday.

Northern Ireland’s prison chief faced demands for his resignation today over alleged abuse of loyalists held in a high security jail.

More than 50 prison warders homes were attacked in Northern Ireland last year, it was revealed today.

A PARCEL bomb addressed to the governor of a top security prison in the North was intercepted at a post office yesterday.

Limerick include five senior panelists for their Erin Munster U21 hurling semi-final clash with Tipperary at the Gaelic Grounds tonight.

Limerick senior hurling selectors have made one personnel change and three positional changes from their last outing for Saturday night’s All-Ireland hurling qualifier against Tipperary in the Gaelic Grounds.

JOHN GARDINER could make a sensational return for tonight’s Erin Foods Munster under 21 championship against Clare at the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick.

LIMERICK will be without team captain Tommy Stack for their make-or-break Allianz National Football League clash with Armagh at the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday.

The permanent separation of loyalist and republican prisoners in Northern Ireland’s top security Maghaberry jail was finally ready to be implemented today.

LIMERICK manager Pat Joe Whelahan was almost lost for words after yesterday's Allianz National Hurling League defeat by Tipperary at the magnificently redeveloped Gaelic Grounds.

Loyalist prisoners in Northern Ireland’s top security jail were being locked in their cells tonight after a riot during which 18 prison officers were injured.

Loyalist and republican prisoners could rebel against a tough new separation regime at a top security Northern Ireland jail, it was claimed today.

POLICE were called into the North’s Magilligan Prison yesterday after the majority of prison officers walked out.

Police were called in to run prisons in Northern Ireland tonight after warders failed to report for duty.

Prison officers in Northern Ireland were today threatening to take strike action after a series of attacks on them inside the high-security Magilligan Jail.

The separation of loyalists and republicans at a Northern Ireland prison has left staff morale at an all-time low, it was claimed tonight.

More than 800 members of the security forces who died in Northern Ireland during the Troubles were honoured today at the unveiling of a new memorial.

A three-day rooftop protest at Maghaberry Prison ended today when the remaining prisoners climbed off the roof.

A BOMB attack on a prison officer’s home in which his young daughter had a narrow escape after unwittingly picking up the device was branded contemptible yesterday.

Cork 3-10 Limerick 1-11

Eight prisoners who staged a rooftop protest at a jail over cell conditions were back behind bars today.

Eight prisoners who staged a rooftop protest at a jail over cell conditions were back behind bars tonight.

A firebomb found inside a Northern Ireland jail today is believed to be part of a campaign by loyalist and republican paramilitaries bidding to be segregated.

The oldest parts of Northern Ireland’s main prison, which was opened just 17 years ago at a cost of £40m (€58m), are “unsafe and unsatisfactory” and should be replaced as soon as possible, according to an inspection report published today.

Prison officers in the North today demanded that they be told what was being done to protect them as they planned unofficial industrial action for the second time this week.

EAMON CORCORAN has withdrawn from the Irish team to play Scotland in the shinty international at Croke Park on Sunday.

The head of prisons in Northern Ireland urged police today to end the misery of warders who fear their details are on suspected IRA hitlists.

Princess Anne today recognised the sacrifice of 29 prison officers in Northern Ireland who died while in service.

Ten prisoners have been set free from jail in Northern Ireland after a landmark ruling from Europe that their human rights had been abused.

Almost 350 drug finds were made in Northern Ireland’s prisons last year, it emerged today.