Leinster skipper Leo Cullen yesterday expressed surprise it has taken so long for Eddie O’Sullivan to find a top coaching job following his departure from Ireland in 2008 and his tenure with USA three years ago.

A teenager and his uncle were convicted yesterday of clobbering a man over the head with hockey sticks after he had driven into a suburban cul de sac hoping to find a bit of gardening work.

A man in his 20s is undergoing surgery in Dublin following a serious assault in Athlone overnight.

Here's Ruairi Quinn and a young fella dressed as a giant shamrock, as students at Blackrock College attempted today to break the world record for 'largest human shamrock'.

Gardaí are to mount extra patrols in Cork City next Saturday in an attempt to quell any trouble sparked by bonfire night celebrations.

Flood response efforts continue across County Clare with local authority staff, Clare County Fire and Rescue, the Army and Gardaí providing 24-hour cover to the flooding crisis.

GARDAÍ do not believe a man arrested for an unwanted approach to three young women in Athlone is linked to four previous assaults on women at the same location.

Gardaí have arrested a man and a woman this morning in connection with the suspicious death of Lillian Scanlon in Athlone one week ago.

A YOUNG man died last night when his motorbike crashed into a pole in Co Kerry.

Gardaí have released the name of a woman who was killed in a road accident in County Wexford on Thursday.

The South Mall in Cork has been named the City Neighbourhood of the Year.

A MAN was taken to hospital with injuries to the face and chest following a raid on a house in Cork city yesterday.

LEO CULLEN isn’t everybody’s idea of the ideal Ireland second-row.

HUNDREDS of students have appealed for financial assistance after a flash flood damaged their rented homes in Athlone at the weekend.

Scores of people were housed in the Athlone Institute of Technology overnight after flooding in the midlands town left their homes uninhabitable.