Average salaries of €100,000 each for the 113 staff at the firm operating the €500m state contract to provide helicopter Search and Rescue (SAR) services contributed to losses at the firm increasing by 13% to €3.1m last year.

Moyle Rovers 3-6 Aherlow 1-11

WHATEVER their fate in next Sunday’s provincial decider against Dr Crokes, the Nire will long remember their epic Munster senior football championship semi-final replay victory over Tipperary champions Aherlow at windswept Fraher Field, Dungarvan, yesterday.

HE WAS fresh from commentating on history, his beloved Aherlow’s first title, but Eddie Moroney still had plenty to say after this Tipperary county senior football final yesterday.