Shane McEntee was a politician, a husband and father, and a Meath GAA man who rose to the higher ranks of Fine Gael after a crucial by election seat victory for the party.

SAY what you like about wartime British efforts to turn Hitler into a woman, but at least they recognised a problem and tried to solve it.

THEIR song provided the background music to Tipperary’s All Ireland hurling final triumph last year and now they’re back with a new track to support their county’s push to retain the McCarthy Cup.

Ryanair is to cease its flights between Dublin and Kerry and between Dublin and Cork in the next two months.

A TIPPERARY village’s All Ireland hurling celebrations turned to tragedy when fire swept through the home of a well-known brother and sister, an inquest heard yesterday.

JP MCMANUS donated more than €10.5 million last year to 143 charities, new figures show.

THIS looks the easiest of the 10 Cork County Council electoral areas to predict, especially as it’s only a three-seater – and the three outgoing councillors are firm favourites to be returned.

The Catholic Church is appealing for information on the whereabouts of people killed by the IRA during the Troubles.

IT SEEMS we’ve swapped the tyranny of the crozier for the far more subversive tyranny of political correctness.

The Democratic Unionists were tonight urged not to break a deadline for securing policing and justice powers for the Northern Ireland Assembly just for the sake of it.

MAYO enjoyed All Ireland success in more places than Croke Park last Sunday.

A POWERFUL production of Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans by Ballyduff Drama Group of west Waterford won the Bryan MacMahon Trophy, the top award in the open competition at the North Cork Drama Festival, now in its 54th year.

All Ireland property developers Dunloe Ewart and the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society have teamed up to produce an ambitious multi-million pound plan which would transform a large area of south Belfast, it was revealed today.