A republic this may be, but there was a royal funeral in Ventry yesterday — footballing royalty but royalty nonetheless, the funeral of Rí an Ríocht, Páidí Ó Sé.

ONE of the country’s largest universities is sitting on a two-and-a-half tonne nuclear store of uranium rods, the remains of a nuclear reactor which has been stored in one of its basements for 17 years.