Paul Brennan

6 days ago | independent.ie | Paul Brennan

Seán O’Shea hasn’t been involved in match day squad since February 15, which will be nine weeks when Kerry take on Cork in the Munster SFC semi-final on SaturdayKerry have made two changes to the starting team that beat Mayo in last month's National Football League Division 1 final for Saturday’s Munster SFC semi-final against Cork, but the big news is that Seán O’Shea is back in the Kerry match day squad for the first time in nine weeks.

6 days ago | independent.ie | Paul Brennan

Tom O'Sullivan comes into the half back line in place of Mike Breen, while in the half forward line Ruairi Murphy gets the vote to start ahead of Micheal Burns. Indeed, Breen isn’t named in the match day squad, which suggests the Beaufort man could be ruled out because or injury or illness. Gavin White, who captains the team, takes over the no.6 jersey, with the two West Kerry men either side of him.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Paul Brennan

The bottom line, according to Jack, as Kerry head to Pairc Uí Chaoimh for a Munster semi-final on Saturday evening is that he “can’t see where the narrative is coming from that Cork are going to lie down or anything like that”. The emphasis on ‘he’ is ours, because while it is part of Jack’s job description to be cautious and wary of a Rebel ambush, for the rest of us, it seems, there is a great fog of indifference over the county this week.

1 week ago | littlevillagemag.com | Paul Brennan

Five international students at two private colleges in the Quad Cities have had their student visas revoked by the Trump administration, on Wednesday. Two of the students are enrolled at St. Ambrose University in Davenport and the other three attend Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. “Given the fast-moving situation, and the fact that we are still assessing impact and implications, we are not able to speak about this at this time,” Augustana College said in an emailed statement.

1 week ago | littlevillagemag.com | Paul Brennan

“I’m Nathan Sage, dad, mechanic, sports radio host, vet, child of a trailer park in Iowa,” the first Iowa Democrat to enter the 2026 U.S. Senate race says in a video posted online Wednesday morning. “And I’m going to kick corporate Republican Joni Ernst’s ass next November.”Sage, the executive director of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, lives in Indianola with his wife, Amanda Sutherland-Sage, and their two children. This is his first run for elective office.