O’DONOVAN JOHN, owned by Richard Keane, Goolds Cross, Co. Tipperary, and trained by David Flannigan, who could be backed at 10-1 before the stake commenced, proved a surprise winner of thefeatured Fitzgerald Cup, the All-Aged event, at the second stage of the Glanworth Coursing meeting.

ONE of her little brothers came forward with a Cork football jersey; another with a Harry Potter book — representing just some of the passions of Alicia Brough, a young woman who loved life.

ONE of the worst multiple murders in the history of the state yesterday claimed the lives of a mother, her two young children and a friend.

VETERAN drummer Jack Countey yesterday stole the show at Limerick’s International Bands Parade.

WHEN the Supreme Court delivered its judgment in the X case on March 5, 1992, Mr Justice Niall McCarthy delivered a scathing critique of the legislative branch of Government.

A YOUNG couple were yesterday trying to come to terms with the tragic death of their three-year-old daughter.