Gary Meneely

1 week ago | thesun.ie | Gary Meneely

CAMOGIE ace Ashling Thompson has revealed Cork will wear shorts in a crunch final - as the rebellion against skorts ramps up. Camogie Association rules insist on players wearing skorts - a skirt with a pair of integral shorts hidden underneath. But many maintain skorts are uncomfortable and deter girls from taking up camogie. Over the weekend, a Leinster senior semi-final match between Dublin and Kilkenny was almost called off after players wore shorts as a protest.

1 week ago | thesun.ie | Stephen Breen |Gary Meneely

GARDAI raided the home of a suspected pipe bomb maker after a device was dropped from a drone and landed outside the home of an innocent family. The Irish Sun can reveal officers from the Emergency Response Unit stormed the property in Finglas just hours after the device was found close to a property in Glenties Park in the early hours of Monday morning. The property searched is linked to a man regarded by Gardai as “under the radar”.

1 week ago | thesun.ie | Gary Meneely

The area will be used as a car park insteadA PAEDOPHILE priest’s victim says he is relieved the building where he was abused has been demolished. Sean Faloon was repeatedly attacked by the late Fr Malachy Finegan in Clonduff parochial house, Hilltown, Co Down. The building became vacant shortly after the scandal emerged, and was set on fire in 2023. Mr Faloon has welcomed news the “monument to a monster is no longer visible”.

1 week ago | thesun.ie | Gary Meneely

THE Government is to press ahead with establishing a housing tsar despite the project descending into shambles. Taoiseach Micheal Martin remained defiant today after the dramatic withdrawal of NAMA chief Brendan McDonagh from consideration to lead up the new unit. McDonagh pulled out on Thursday night amid a storm over his €430,000 salary to become chief executive of the Government’s new Housing Activation Office.

1 week ago | thesun.ie | Gary Meneely

RTE bosses are to be hauled before Dail committees over yet ANOTHER scandal. The broadcaster, which has been engulfed in turmoil since the payments controversy, is facing a fresh storm over shocking revelations it wrote down €3.6 million on a partly failed IT system. The IT system, which had been intended to replace its finance and HR systems, was funded from the proceeds of the sale of around nine acres of land at the broadcaster’s Donnybrook campus in Dublin.