One of the country’s top hurling coaches who took his own life was “lonely” following the breakdown of his marriage a year earlier, an inquest heard yesterday.

AN off-duty garda was the victim of a serious assault at the hands of young men who were euphoric from drink having won a Gaelic football match.

BACK in June, just days after Kerry had pilfered a draw against Conor Counihan’s men in Killarney, Jack O’Connor sat into his car in South Kerry and pointed it in the direction of Cork city.