Coláiste Chríost Rí 1-18 Tralee CBS 1-18 (AET): Coláiste Chríost Rí had to score the final four points at Mallow on Saturday to send this Corn Uí Mhuirí semi-final tie to a replay, but it was difficult to argue against a draw being the fair outcome.

150 staff members at the State's only youth detention centre will walk off the job today.

The manager of Oberstown Children Detention Campus has said riot gear for staff is not the answer to issues at the facility as workers veer towards possible industrial action.

A TRADE union has claimed that huge savings would arise if the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food got its own trained staff to undertake factory meat inspections currently done by external inspectors.

IMPACT claimed yesterday that plans by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to close its Tallaght district veterinary office within the next six weeks will hit services to farmers in Co Dublin and east Wicklow.

Driving instructors believe new legislation on provisional driving licences will cause chaos, it emerged today.

Ireland beat Wales 7-5 at the Clan Naofa Boxing club in Dundalk last Friday night in a keenly contested Boy 4 international.

Irish drivers cause twice as many road deaths as some other EU countries, it emerged today.

Plans to clear the driving test backlog were given the green light tonight as unions voted in favour of allowing the privatisation of tens of thousands of tests.

The cancellation of more than 1,300 driving tests to allow testers to debate privatisation plans aimed at reducing the backlog was unavoidable, it was claimed today.

Unions representing civil and public servants are due to meet government officials today to discuss their opposition to plans to limit future promotions to staff involved in the decentralisation programme.

STATE sector unions last night demanded the Government remove the entire sector from its controversial decentralisation plan after just 7% of workers applied to decentralise.