TWO weeks ago, their senior hurlers returned home disconsolate after giving up their All-Ireland title, but last night Tipperary GAA supporters were en fete again as they welcomed their young footballing heroes home to the GAA’s birthplace.

A man has been jailed in the UK and his wife given a suspended sentence for abducting a baby boy who was later found abandoned at the cathedral in Carlow town.

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin said he could not agree with some Catholics who wanted the Church to proclaim closure on past clerical child abuse and move on.

A couple have been charged with abducting an eight-month-old boy who was found in a cathedral in Carlow, police in the UK said today.

Gardaí are hopeful that an eight-month-old baby boy who was abandoned in Carlow will be re-united with his legal guardian in the coming days.

A baby boy found abandoned in Carlow Cathedral yesterday has been identified as having gone missing from the Nottinghamshire in England the previous day and is to be reunited with his legal guardian.

Gardaí are appealing for a couple to contact them after a baby boy was found by a member of the public yesterday afternoon in the Cathedral of the Assumption in Carlow town.

THE GAA will conclude their 125 celebrations on Sunday in Thurles, on the anniversary of the day the Association was founded in Hayes Hotel in 1884.

THE president of the GAA, Mr Sean Kelly, has expressed his sadness at the death of former Galway footballer Sean Purcell, winner of an All-Ireland medal with the County in 1956.

THE Taoiseach and Justice minister were among the guests at a special ceremony installing the new bishop of Kildare and Leighlin.

The new Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin says that there is no place within the priesthood for anybody that harms children.

A massive commemoration of the centenary anniversary of the death of the first Patron of the GAA, Archbishop Thomas Croke is taking place this evening in Thurles, the birthplace of the Association.