King of the Claddagh Michael Lynskey and his community took to the Galway waterside at the weekend to welcome home a workboat which plied the Atlantic during two world wars.

A 12-month-old boy whose mother died six months after he was born has been abandoned by his father, a family court judge has said.

Brendan McGovern leads the Irish challenge in Sardinia at the halfway stage in the Starwood PGA of Europe Championship after rounds of 70 and 75.