It is 100 days until the World Amateur Team Championships, which tee off at Carton House on August 29. 

Upwards of 500 people are to lose their jobs at the Hewlett Packard (HP) global print plant in Leixlip, Co Kildare, within the next 12 months.

The Phoenix Park Tunnel line is now open to commuters for the first time in more than a century, connecting stations between Kildare and Dublin.

The Garda crackdown that followed the death of crusading journalist Veronica Guerin showed gangsters that they were not untouchable. Numerous arrests and the seizure of €50m of assets and €150m in taxes followed that brutal killing, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Take a walk down Abbey Street past the Jervis Center — itself a converted hospital — towards Heuston Station in Dublin.

Once again, Europe has had to bear the consequences of the years of alienation and separation of its large community of migrants. And, once again, we are witnessing the carnage brought about by young men lured down the road to ruin.

Cistercian College Roscrea 24 Clongowes Wood College 18: Cistercian College Roscrea’s quest for a second successive Leinster Schools Senior Cup triumph remains on course, after Brian Diffley’s 61st-minute try helped them to edge a compelling semi-final showdown with Clongowes Wood College, at Donnybrook yesterday.

Health watchdog Hiqa yesterday highlighted concerns with centres in a campus for people with disabilities, and which was previously strongly criticised by the authority.

Cork Harlequins are quietly moving back into contention in the women’s EY Hockey League after a 7-0 dismantling of Greenfields moved them up to third place.

Gardaí continued to question a man last night as part of a murder investigation following the death of a 37-year-old father in north Kildare.

There have been almost 1,500 incidents of assaulting or obstructing gardaí in the last five years.

Irish Water has said that four in 10 leaks on properties surveyed are coming from internal problems in homes where it will not arrange for repairs.

The theory that pine martens prey selectively on grey squirrels and that this can lead to native red squirrels recolonising areas that they had been banished from by the greys is fairly well known.

Clongowes Wood College stand between Blackrock College and their back-to-back Senior Cup aspirations, after Noel McNamara’s charges held off a strong showing from St Andrew’s College to book their place in the March 16 decider.

Crime boss John Gilligan may try to halt the sale of the sprawling Kildare equestrian centre once he is released from jail.

It’s fitting that the only remnant of John Gilligan’s empire at his equestrian centre in Kildare is a calendar from 1996.

Those in receipt of rent supplements will see a change to their payments from next Monday.

It’s hard to pinpoint when it became unfashionable to be a Waterford footballer, but it wasn’t today or yesterday.

The Health Service Executive is denying that an ambulance was not available to help a dying man in Co. Kildare.

An Irish company that had signed up to a deal with ESB in 2010 to develop 50 megawatts of geothermal electricity in Ireland has abandoned its plans — and the country — because the Government has not yet legislated to support the clean energy technology.

The long-running saga in relation to the transfer of former Cavan senior footballer Sean Johnston from Cavan Gaels to the St Kevin's club in Kildare is expected to come to an end today.

Fintan Buckley, from the Hermitage club in Dublin, was yesterday installed President of the Golfing Union of Ireland at the annual delegates meeting in Carton House, Co Kildare.

CHAMPIONS Moorefield were sensationally beaten by Carbury in a dramatic Kildare SFC tie that saw county star Eoghan O’Flaherty kick the winner from a free.

THE massive clean-up operation required to clear Punchestown Racecourse after this year’s hugely successful Oxegen Festival turned out to be the only major hangover for organisers.

PAT SMULLEN was seen at his tactical best when guiding the Dermot Weld-trained Sapphire to a convincing all-the-way victory in the Irish Stallion Farms Fillies race at Naas last night, highlight of a 134/1 treble for the champion jockey.

ELITE Garda units prevented a possible gangland murder, robbery or kidnapping when they swooped on an armed gang just after midnight yesterday.

BANDON’S gut-wrenching loss to Three Rock Ladies was the only bit of bad news on a productive day for Munster women’s hockey in Irish competitions.

THREE ROCK ROVERS will hope Leeside continues to be a happy hunting ground for them as they come calling to Farmer’s Cross for an Irish Junior Cup quarter-final clash with Cork Harlequins tomorrow (2pm).

TEACHERS are increasingly being called upon to respond to students who are struggling with self-harming behaviour or suicidal thoughts, a conference organised by suicide charity Console has heard.

A ROW between two young men, described as being the “best of pals”, ended in appalling tragedy after one of them was fatally stabbed with a kitchen knife.

GRAIN growers were warned yesterday not to be conned into selling below the going rate as prices for green and dried crops continue to harden.

A 45-year-old man has been arrested for questioning over the death of a woman whose body was found in the boot of a car in Dublin yesterday.

CORK Church of Ireland know nothing but victory at home to Ulster kingpins Cookstown tomorrow will do to keep their hopes of reaching the Irish Hockey League semi-finals alive.

Thousands of non-Irish nationals in Co. Kildare who are not entitled to vote in the Lisbon referendum have inadvertently received polling cards to do so.

Almost three hundred jobs are to go at Intel in Leixlip, Co Kildare.

THE system of emergency welfare payments is in danger of collapsing because of record job losses and a lack of staff to process claims, community welfare officers (CWOs) have warned.

AS heavy rain lashed the country yesterday, it was revealed that less than two-thirds of the harvest has been gathered and that crops worth €150 million will be at risk if the weather does not improve.

More than €150m worth of crops could be ruined by dismal weather over the summer, it was revealed today.

DAVID HOBBS will celebrate his 100th Irish cap this weekend, and become the youngest player in Irish Hockey history to do so.

The following is the Leinster under-20 team to play Connacht in Greystones RFC on Saturday (KO: 4pm):