All-Ireland champions Cork and beaten finalists Galway lead the way in the Electric Ireland minor football team of the year, with four players from either county selected.

A new lifeboat service went ‘live’ yesterday in a fishing village touched by one of the worst sea tragedies of recent years.

The RNLI plans to start recruiting volunteers immediately after sanctioning a two-year lifeboat trial in a coastal community which witnessed one of the worst fishing tragedies in recent years.