Dawn raids and doggedness lifted Listowel to the top of this year’s Tidy Towns competition after 25 years of trying.

It’s a busy roundabout at the best of times, but it’s about to get a whole lot busier thanks to a new bee-friendly initiative.

There have been reports of scam calls coming from the Liberia +231 prefix.

Congratulations and thanks to Dr Tom Butler (Analysis, October 19) for his very informative and important article about the dire educational consequences of letting students study via electronic devices.

Should children be left to their own electronic devices in the classroom? No, says Tom Butler, who argues against the myth that the wholesale application of computers is beneficial to students

Carbon monoxide alarms are to be made available to thousands of older and vulnerable people following a major review of a government grant scheme.

One of the most eagerly-anticipated video game releases is expected to smash sales records after going on sale worldwide today.

The creators of Grand Theft Auto V have launched an investigation after copies of the eagerly anticipated video game appear to have been dispatched days ahead of its official release.

"Hello… yes, I can't come in today I've got a *cough* terrible dose.

Fans are expected to be queuing around the block tonight to get their hands on one of the most eagerly anticipated computer game releases of the year.

A Cork town is looking blooming fantastic as it prepares to represent Ireland in a major European floral competition tomorrow.

The former head of the Irish Republic’s forensic state laboratory has said he is surprised no-one was ever prosecuted for the IRA killing of 18 British soldiers.

Telecoms watchdog Comreg is considering banning calls to and from certain sub-Saharan countries after the re-emergence of a scam in which mobile customers can have their call credit stolen.

JOY unconfined for Drom & Inch yesterday in Semple Stadium as they won their first Tipperary senior hurling title, edging out Clonoulty Rossmore by two points to get their hands on the Dan Breen Cup.

KEEPING Lar Corbett scoreless — it’s a winning formula.

Swansea have tied yet another of their key players to the club after Nathan Dyer signed a new three-year contract at the Liberty Stadium.

TIMMY HAMMERSLEY scored 0-13 for Clonoulty-Rossmore yesterday in their facile West Tipperary SHC final victory against Cappawhite at Dundrum.

FOOD producer Cuinneog has reported sales growth of 12% for 2010, boosted by new export growth in Britain and Italy.

A PENSIONER has been sent forward for trial on 72 charges of sexually abusing seven of his daughters.

THURLES SARS retained their Tipperary senior hurling title in dull and damp Semple Stadium yesterday, capping off a superb year for their four Tipperary All-Ireland-winning stars, but only after a testing final few minutes against a young Clonoulty-Rossmore side that will surely come again.

This afternoon saw Ballyboden St. Enda's and Thurles Sarsfields claim Senior Hurling Championship titles in Dublin and Tipperary respectively, while Loughrea and Clarinbridge will have to meet again following their drawn Galway decider at Pearse Stadium.

ON the Clonoulty-Rossmore team facing Thurles Sarsfields in Sunday’s Tipperary SHC final in Semple Stadium you have Tom Butler, and then you have Big Tommy Butler.

CLONOULTY-ROSSMORE claimed the spoils in this Tipperary SHC semi-final in Thurles yesterday despite having played second fiddle for long spells to a Kildangan team that has come a long way in a short time.

CLONOULTY-Rossmore captured the Tipperary Co-op Supervalu West Tipperary senior hurling championship for a fourth successive year with a comfortable nine-point victory over Éire Óg Annacarty at Seán Treacy Park yesterday.

FOR a growing number of people the mobile phone is replacing the home phone as their primary means of electronic communication, according to a new ComReg survey.

ONE-WAY traffic in this, the last of the four Tipperary senior hurling quarter-finals played in Semple Stadium at the weekend, as champions Toomevara continued their well-timed run towards retaining their title.

Toomevara 0-17 Loughmore-Castleiney 0-13

Clonoulty-Rossmore 0-17 Thurles Sarsfields 1-14

CONSUMERS are getting a better deal when using their mobile phones on foreign holidays or business trips abroad, but should be getting cheaper texts, watchdogs said yesterday.

YOUR columnist Ryle Dwyer clearly subscribes to the Bart Simpson school of thought on climate change — ‘We didn’t do it. Nobody saw us do it. You can’t prove anything’.

THE Royal Society, one of the leading academies of science in the world, states on its website: ‘It has become fashionable in some parts of the British media to portray the scientific evidence that has been collected about climate change and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities as an exaggeration.’

FOLLOWING the derogatory letter (Irish Examiner, February 21) from the Directors of the Cork Greyhound Racing Company, most of whom are supposed to be representing Cork greyhound owners and breeders ...

HOUSEHOLDERS are to get a helping hand to guide them through the maze of different companies offering home phone services and broadband.

IRISH shoppers will be spending almost €55 million on the internet in the run up to Christmas, with concert tickets, compact discs and DVDs among the most popular items so far.

MORE than a decade after it was first proposed, Ireland is to finally get its first Stringfellow’s club - complete with its renowned nude table-side dancers.

Fireman’s son Paul McCartney and his wife have donated a painting from their private collection to the members of the New York Fire Department – and the subject is something likely very close to their hearts.

BRIAN O’MAHONY’S praise for US Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan (Irish Examiner, July 3) is misplaced, as any objective analysis of the US economy would indicate.

THE analysis of the American economy that appeared in last week’s Money & Jobs section (Irish Examiner, October 10) was clearly drafted using spectacles manufactured in a room overlooking the White House rose garden.

I WISH to respond to Terry Prone's pious, politically correct opinion piece on male circumcision (Irish Examiner, August 25).