In 1979 I recall, as a young boy, being introduced by my grandparents to a friend who had an interest in CB radio and electronics.

Sonny O’Neill, the man believed to have killed Michael Collins at Béal na Bláth, described being there when applying for a military pension 13 years later — but said nothing about the gunfight or firing the fatal shot.

A Ukrainian man was jailed for four years with the final three suspended after he falsely obtained almost €18,000 in social welfare payments under a dead man’s name.

CALEB POWELL has been installed as the 123rd president of the Irish Rugby Football Union.

ARRABAWN Co-op has agreed in principle to purchase the Dawn Dairies liquid milk business in Galway from Kerry Group for an undisclosed figure.

THE young Tipperary man shot dead by police in a Bolivian hotel was being investigated by the authorities there prior to his death, the country’s ambassador has told an inquest into his death.

Staff at the Procter and Gamble plant in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, are anxiously awaiting news on the future of their jobs today.

The Government’s approach to the prison system is misguided and uninformed, it was claimed today.

PAST pupils of St Mary’s Secondary School in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, are invited to the launch of ‘The Story of St Mary’s’ in the school hall on Thursday, December 5, at 8pm.

Gardai in Nenagh, Co Tipperary are on the hunt for three men involved in an armed robbery from a supermarket today.