The National Roads Authority has been accused of being ‘party poopers’ for removing flags and banners from motorways erected by Banner supporters as they prepare to move en-masse to Dublin for tomorrow’s All-Ireland replay.

A father and daughter have been remanded in custody in relation to the discovery of €1.5m worth of cocaine and cannabis and €399,000 of cannabis, respectively, at two addresses in Co Kilkenny.

SEVEN days after they perished in the house they shared in an isolated part of Co Kilkenny, Sharon Whelan and her two daughters will be buried today in the same grave.

NEXT month’s National Ploughing Championships will stage Ireland’s only full livestock exhibition in 2007, after Sunday’s Tullamore Show and AIB National Livestock Show was cancelled due to floods.