Wicklow face Derry in the Allianz Division 2B League final tomorrow afternoon, a game you may associate with simmering dissatisfaction about its location (Inniskeen, which is not Croke Park).

The owner of the Tipperary Crystal brand has sued a giftware seller for allegedly passing off their trademarks on the packaging of items being offered for sale, writes Ann O’Loughlin

The owner of the Tipperary Crystal brand has sued a giftware seller for allegedly passing off their trademarks on the packaging of items being offered for sale.

A Cork woman has rejected claims by accountancy firm Grant Thornton she disseminated or has retained any confidential material contained on a computer disk mistakenly sent by the firm to her.

EVERY friendship has its share of give and take. 

Criminal proceedings may be considered in relation to the deaths of two men in separate workplace accidents within days of each other in Cork, it has emerged.

Kildare 0-17 Dublin 2-14 (AET): If Dublin go on to win the EirGrid All-Ireland U21 title later this month manager Dessie Farrell will savour easily his greatest achievement in management.

Senior panellist Con O'Callaghan starred again for Dublin with 1-7 but Cillian O'Shea was the game breaker in Navan with a vital late goal to secure a three-in-a-row of EirGrid Leinster U-21 football titles.

The cost of a long-awaited pier for an internationally known shell-fishing area is pushing towards €10m, it has emerged.

Gardaí are hoping to speak to a Co Limerick farmer today who almost died when thieves ran him down in a speeding car.

Finding money to carry out necessary dredging at an essential port will be a "significant challenge" for Kerry County Council.

Scientists at odds with authorities in wanting light, less costly, unmanned UAVs to ferry goods around our skies, says Thomas Grose

Growing up in Granagh, Co Limerick, theatre director Joan Sheehy, was always fascinated with the story of Ellen Hanly, known as ’The Colleen Bawn’, from Granagh, who was immortalised in literature, drama, film and opera.

The great-granddaughter of the first manager of the Cork Opera House has donated to the theatre a treasured family artefact which he received in appreciation for his work there more than a century ago.

The site of an old shipwreck, displaced in recent storms, is dangerous because of unstable sand dunes, it has been warned.

West Clare man Jim Scanlan said it is “devastating” for the village of Kilmihil to be losing its Garda station.

Writing and producing six plays in a day is the focus of 24 Hour Plays at the Abbey, says Pádraic Killeen

A host of Ireland’s finest performers are up for Britain’s coveted National Television Awards, it has emerged.

Health Minister James Reilly had to be told by the secretary general of his own department that it was “inappropriate” to involve civil servants in political work.

People are being warned to stay away from sand cliff areas on beaches which are “inherently unstable”.

Kerry County Council is to ban swimming near piers, introduce a fee for parking near beaches and charge for mooring small boats as part of controversial draft harbour bylaws.

It has emerged a lump sum severance payment of €430,000 is to be paid to the outgoing Secretary General of the Department of Health, Michael Scanlan.

The top civil servant in the Department of Health is to step down in the coming months with a retirement package of over €430,000 and an annual pension of €107,000 per year.

AN internal report outlining how the hospital system will be reconfigured — including the exact services to be moved from 10 small hospitals — is set to be given to Health Minister Dr James Reilly.

THE controversial withdrawal of services from smaller hospitals under the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) ambitious reform programme is to be halted pending review.

LIMERICK senior football manager Maurice Horan has revealed that he will be without the services of Pádraig Browne and goalkeeper Conor Ranahan for the coming season.

THE boss of the HSE has said his organisation must take responsibility for accountancy failures related to the spending of millions of euro of ‘partnership funding’ some of which was used to finance at least 21 foreign trips by dozens of state employees and trade union officials.

Two senior trade union officials were the signatories to a bank account at the centre of a State training scheme expenses controversy, it emerged today.

INDEPENDENT planning experts have welcomed a move to open up dialogue with architects and others involved in house design.

Three close friends killed in a road accident after enjoying the first day at the Listowel racing festival have been named.

STAFF at state-aided voluntary bodies face wage cuts of more than €20 million after the Government told the Health Service Executive to press ahead with the cuts, despite the Tánaiste’s assertion they would not be affected.

THE ownership of eight Presentation Brothers’ schools has been taken over by a board of lay trustees. They include seven Cork schools.

CRIMINAL elements in Clare were warned that gardaí will “meet them head-on” and not allow them to take over an Ennis housing estate that was the scene of a grenade attack last weekend.

RELATIVES are being prevented from visiting the graves of loved ones at a Co Limerick cemetery due to fears they may end up joining the dead.

MEDICAL staff were doing nixers in a public hospital for Barringtons private clinic in Limerick, it has emerged.

A SOLITARY bouquet of flowers lay at the waters edge yesterday as disbelieving neighbours prayed at the spot where the bodies of a mother and her two children were taken from a river in north Cork.

Incompetent dentists, nurses, opticians and pharmacists could be named and shamed under new laws, it emerged today.

HEALTH chiefs admitted yesterday that they don’t know how many people are employed in the €12 billion-a-year service.

HEALTH chiefs last night sparked alarm by admitting they do not know how much is being spent on their computer system upgrades as the Government moves to pump billions more into the projects.

A FLAGSHIP €143 million health scheme to get patients off waiting lists by paying for them to go private has been criticised after figures show more than a third of those helped were treated in the same hospital that left them languishing in the first place.

THE State is preparing to write off a substantial portion of the €9 million owed to it by GPs, but it remains to be seen if they will repay the reduced amount.