“He was the difference between the teams today,” declared an ecstatic St Mary’s coach, Dan Shanahan. “His puckouts were good and he hasn’t conceded a goal in four games.”

When gardaí called to the scene of a late-night disturbance at a Kerry hotel, they found a man in an injured state in a corridor with what appeared to be his guts hanging out of his torso.

A Meath man who charged a 78-year-old woman more than €43,000 for repairs to leaking gutters on her roof when it should have cost just €1,800 has escaped a jail sentence.

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