It was a case of late heartbreak for Cork City on Valentine’s night as an 86th-minute Ciaran Kilduff goal delivered victory for Shelbourne on their return to the Premier Division, leaving Neale Fenn’s new-look side with much to ponder as they now face into the daunting test of back to back away games against Shamrock Rovers and Dundalk.

Gardaí have made four further arrests in relation to the abduction of Kevin Lunney.

“Will it be a tale of goalkeepers?” George Hamilton intones portentously as the camera zooms in on Kasper Schmeichel. “Will it be a tale of goalscorers?”

The light from a strong winter sun shone down on the funeral cortege as it arrived at the church.

The Association of Catholic Priests received many messages from people applauding the organisation for coming out strongly in support of Co Cavan priest Fr Oliver O'Reilly after it emerged that businessman Sean Quinn complained about him to the Vatican.

There are reports that the main suspect in the the kidnapping and torture of Kevin Lunney has died.

DURING the week, two executives of Quinn Industrial Holdings said the border region was “perilously close” to becoming lawless. During the Troubles, the region was pretty lawless, or so it appeared when novelist Colm Toibin met Seán Quinn in 1987.

The threat follows last month's abduction and torture of Quinn director Kevin Lunney, who is still recovering from his injuries.

Every now and then random events collide in a way that highlights the distance between promise and performance.

Gardaí investigating the assault on Kevin Lunnery have announced that they have completed their search today in the Ballinagh area of Cavan.

“Any proper individual with a sense of morals would condemn that,” he told regional radio station Northern Sound.

Kevin Lunney, 50, was abducted and “brutally” beaten and dumped 22 miles away before he was rescued by a passerby who called emergency services.

A senior executive in the companies once owned by billionaire Sean Quinn sustained life-changing injuries when he was abducted and beaten by a masked gang, police have said.

RTÉ has launched its new season schedule with an event at its headquarters stocked to the gills with razzmatazz and celebrity.

Take a peek at some of the slate here.

Shane Daly Butz is determined to use the World University Games as a spring board to kick start his football career.

A legal action against former Anglo Irish Bank executive Thomas Browne has been listed for hearing in the Commercial Court for April next year.

The Central Bank has decided to continue existing restrictions on ordinary investors using contracts for difference (CFDs), the market financial bets that played a starring role in the collapse of the Sean Quinn business empire after he used them to build up a huge stake in Anglo Irish before the bank’s collapse.

Construction products and packing group, Quinn Industrial Holdings is seeking to expand into the ready-mix concrete market to tap the building boom in the Dublin area and is open to making acquisitions if opportunities arise.

In April 2007, at the height of the madness, I felt the wrath of one of the most powerful figures in the country at the time.

Two further judgments, for a total $133m and for a total 72m Russian roubles (about €1m), have been obtained on consent against some members of businessman Sean Quinn's family and some of their spouses.

A conditional judgment for €445m is part of the settlement of the long and bitter litigation between the Quinn family and State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation.

A settlement could be reached next week of the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s five adult children challenging the validity of securities provided by them for hundreds of millions of euro in loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies.

The marathon case by Sean Quinn’s five adult children has been further adjourned by the High Court to tomorrow as settlement talks continue.

Settlement talks are underway in the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s five adult children denying liability for some €410m under guarantees of loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies.

Talks are underway in the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s children denying liability for some €415m under guarantees of loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies, the High Court has heard.

The case, initiated in 2011, is currently being heard by Mr Justice Garrett Simons and may last months.

A High Court judge will rule next week whether Sean Quinn’s children can pursue a key claim their father unduly influenced them to sign securities for loans of hundreds of millions by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn group companies.

Two former senior executives with the Quinn group are "very reluctant" witnesses in the action by Sean Quinn's adult children disputing any liability under guarantees for loans of more than €415m, the High Court has been told.

Sean Quinn’s family used the Quinn group as their “personal bank” from which they extracted some €1.95bn to fund their personal lifestyles, property acquisition and significant losses, the High Court has been told.

What with the week that’s in it, there has been a lot of talk about how much things have changed since 1979. And there has been huge change, writes Michael Clifford.

A High Court judge has deferred, pending the outcome of a further hearing, a decision on whether to direct payment of about €10,500 arrears of living expenses to Sean Quinn Junior and his wife.

Counsel said the cessation of the payments had caused the couple of Farmleigh Close, Farmleigh Woods Castleknock, Dublin some hardship particularly around Christmas.

Tiny Magnetic Pets started out the wrong band in the wrong place.

In his book, ‘The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border’, Garrett Carr blends rhythms of philosophy, history, legend, memoir, and travelogue into a beguiling melody. Brendan Daly savours the tune

The three US-based investment funds which own the construction supplies and packaging divisions of the old Quinn Group are set to spend another €10m on the business this year in a bid to support its long-term growth.

Colm O’Regan is trying to be Zen about queues. 

The Slieve Russell Hotel has been closed after an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.