When GAA Director General Páraic Duffy wrote in his annual report that the biting incident during Donegal and Dublin’s league game in April was one of the year’s lows he could not have anticipated the reaction that was to follow.

West Cork €95,000

Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, has stepped down as the MP for Mid-Ulster.

Residents in a wide area of mid-Kerry are experiencing an “absolute nightmare” due to constant breakdowns in public water supplies, it has been claimed.

County SHC champions, Drom-Inch had a comfortable 0-21 to 0-12 win over Burgess in the third round at Dolla yesterday.

Cork City is alive to the sound of music this weekend but there are dozens of other events throughout the South-West to whet the appetite of bank holiday visitors and revellers.

Martin Coppinger kept his Munster senior championship hopes alive when he beat James O’Donovan by five metres at Bauravilla on Sunday.

A NINE-point victory for Drom-Inch. And after completely outclassing their opponents it was the least they deserved.

SOME of the country’s largest rural and regional hospitals are set to spend up to 10 times more on agency workers to fill staff gaps this year than in 2005.

MID-WEST tourism interests are hoping to repeat the good fortune of those who came across the ‘Great Clare Gold Find’ at the Bronze Age Mooghaun ringfort by making it a major tourist attraction.

SCHOOL principals have called for clearer guidelines and faster responses from the Health Service Executive on reporting of suspected child neglect.

INDUSTRIAL action is looming in the HSE’s Mid-West region over management plans to get rid of up to 300 health service staff on temporary contracts.

KILLUMNEY village is an attractive little hub in mid-Cork with a shop, a pub and a co-op. It combines the best of little Ireland with fast access to Ballincollig and Cork city.

FARMING accounted for almost 40% of all workplace fatalities in 2008, although just over 6% of the workforce is employed in the agri-sector.

A CONTRACT has been signed by the HSE for the construction of a satellite dialysis unit near the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.

THE views of an Oxford University professor and the county manager have been ignored by Kerry councillors, who have agreed to rezone historic demesne lands for residential purposes.

A 16-YEAR-OLD Limerick girl miraculously escaped death yesterday when she was accidentally shot by friends doing target practice with a powerful handgun at an all-night house party.

A LIMERICK girl suffering from cystic fibrosis is living in a cramped flat with her mother despite pleas from doctors to the city council for more suitable accommodation.

A THREE-YEAR slide in industrial job numbers in the Mid-West was halted in 2004, according to Shannon Development's annual report, published yesterday.

A FORMER ministerial driver yesterday assumed high office himself.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen, begins a five-day fact-finding mission to the Middle East today as part of Ireland’s preparations to take over the presidency of the UN Security Council next month.