The trip to Laois and Offaly in three weeks will mark a historic first appearance for Ballincollig in Féile na nÓg, the national football festival for U14 players.

A SENIOR manager of a Co Clare engineering firm has secured a €185,000 compensation payout after the Employment Appeals Tribunal ruled that he was unfairly sacked from his job by the firm’s US parent company.

GARDAÍ arrested two men for questioning yesterday about a Hallowe’en night arson attack that caused €5 million damage.

A GARDA car was petrol-bombed and a business was gutted in one of a series of arson attacks in what was one of the country’s worst Hallowe’en night attacks.