IN the early months of 2009, staunch Nenagh Golf Club members, Paddy Heffernan and Seamus Hogan, began to plan an assault on the Bulmers All-Ireland Bruen Shield.

THE Rathkeale tree stump which some people claim projects the image of Our Lady is losing its drawing powers.

ALL the drama and excitement associated with the Bulmers Irish Cups and Shields came very much to the fore at Kenmare Golf Club when Nenagh and Douglas qualified for the national finals of the Jimmy Bruen and Pierce Purcell Shields.

MARGARET SHERIDAN, one of the hundreds who yesterday visited the willow tree stump in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, which many claim projects the image of Our Lady, said it has worked a miracle of sorts for her husband, Dan, who is on dialysis.

HUNDREDS of people gathered last night in an all-night vigil to pray at the stump of a felled tree which locals in west Co Limerick claim projects an image of Our Lady.

The removal is due to take place in Dublin this evening of the murdered criminal Seamus Hogan.

Two men have been arrested following an early morning shooting in Dublin.

Detectives investigating the murder of a prominent Dublin criminal on Saturday night will meet this morning to review the case.

Detectives have recovered the black Mazda car used in the gangland-style assassination of a leading Dublin criminal, Gardai said today.

Gardai are appealing for information about two cars seen in the vicinity of last night's gangland-style shooting in Dublin.

The battle for control of Dublin's drugs trade is mounting with the shooting