There is a full round of league action this weekend across all three divisions in the Munster Junior Leagues.

Jason Flynn was reared on tales from the 80s; nothing but stories to cling to as he hurled countless All-Ireland finals against the gable end above in Ballinakill.

All-Ireland fever grips community as local hero Jason Flynn prepares for battle with Kilkenny

A Waterford-born businessman who has lived in Australia for the last 30 years has emerged as the successful buyer of Waterford Castle, paying over €6m for the luxury hotel, set on an island on the River Suir just below the city.

IRELAND’S signature castle hotels have been changing hands with aplomb this year – think Ashford Castle, and now Adare Manor on the hook for c €40m, while this week the illustrious roll-call is joined by the more modestly priced Waterford Castle.

Waterford Castle, a hotel and resort on an island in the River Suir two miles from Waterford City, has just been publicly placed on the international market guiding over €4.5m.

Old school friends paid a poignant tribute to one of their own.

A family were keeping a vigil at the bedside of their daughter, 11, at Cork University Hospital, after she was critically injured when a tractor front loader fell on top of her.

The parents of an eight-year old girl were shell-shocked last night after landing at Dublin Airport to be told their daughter had been killed in an accident.

A provisional liquidator has been appointed to two companies which own and operate the deluxe Waterford Castle Hotel and Golf Club.

The cheery smiles, the animated conversations and the sheer buzz of being young and brimful of energy said it all about the joys of participating in sport.

The aircraft flown in a fatal crash last month did not have any technical defects that contributed to the accident, investigators have found.

An attractive package at Ballinakill, Ballinamult, Co Waterford, is on offer through Christy Buckley.

Dairy farmer John Payne from Longford has won the top award in the Connacht Gold milk quality awards.

They have lived in the shadow of their city rivals St Kieran’s for long enough.

A 71-year-old Laois man has begun a protest against the GAA’s parish rule until his club is given the right to hold on to the underage players they have been developing.

CLONMEL head the field in Munster Junior League Division One after they collected maximum points with a 28-0 away win over Kilfeacle.

THE widow of a Laois man who died near the summit of Mt Everest said yesterday her husband had her “unwavering support” in his decision to climb the world’s highest mountain.

An Irish man who has died attempting to reach the summit of Everest did not know his wife had just given birth to a baby girl back home.

Emigration has long been Ireland’s tragedy and triumph, writesPolitical Correspondent Shaun Connolly

IT looks set to be a big season in the Munster Junior rugby scene, especially with the league winners guaranteed a place in next year’s All-Ireland League.

IT looks set to be a big season in the Munster Junior rugby scene, especially with the league winners guaranteed a place in next year’s All-Ireland League.

Two men have been killed and three other people injured in a road crash in Co Kildare.

GRA Geal Mo Chroi has a leading chance in the Mayo Advertiser Handicap at Ballinrobe tonight.

Bus Éireann has launched an investigation into a fire that broke out on a school bus in Co Laois this morning.

A Laois man has been jailed for life for murdering his ex-girlfriend in Carlow almost two years ago.

A jury at the trial of a Laois man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend today heard closing speeches by the prosecution and the defence.

GARDA forensic experts are to fly to Brazil to help identify the bodies of people who perished in the Air France plane disaster a week ago.

THE families and friends of Irish victims of the Air France disaster were yesterday coming to terms with their loss after the first wreckage from the plane was confirmed found in the Atlantic.

AISLING BUTLER’S father John said his daughter was “a truly wonderful, exciting girl. She never flunked an exam in her life – nailed every one of them – and took it all in her stride as well.”

GARRYOWEN youngster Conor Murray provided the finishing touch to his side’s crucial AIB League victory over UCD at Belfield on Saturday.

JUST a half a dozen big homes, built near an apartment development, make up the Kingswood enclave, in Waterford’s Ballinakill.

JUST a half a dozen big homes, built near an apartment development, make up the Kingswood enclave, in Waterford’s Ballinakill.

AIB Cup first round results

IT’S a story heard countless times a year up and down the country: player plays under an assumed name, opponents smell something fishy, complain and succeed in getting the result overturned.

A car resembling the one belonging to a woman whose husband is on trial at the Central Criminal Court for her murder was seen travelling away from the Quays in Waterford in the early hours of the day she was reported missing.

A PEDESTRIAN died in Co Clare last night, bringing to five the weekend death toll on the roads.

Two women have been killed in a multi-vehicle car crash, gardaí said today.

WITH detached homes and stunning views over King’s Channel and Waterford Island, the new Island Point development is aimed at the upper end of the southeast’s residential market.

ONE of the country’s best-known food and accommodation critics has panned the proliferation of “ugly and uninteresting” mid-range hotels springing up across the nation.

FUTURE Gordon Ramsays, Richard Corrigans and chefs of a quieter yet no less talented disposition gathered in Dublin over the weekend to do battle in kitchens for one of the most hotly contested title in Irish culinary circles.

GARDAÍ in Waterford will this morning launch a fresh appeal for information in tracing the final movements of murdered mother-of-one Margaret (Meg) Walsh.