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Efforts are being made to repatriate the body of a young Moycullen man, who tragically drowned while on holidays in Croatia, within the coming days. Eamon Buckley from Gortahalla entered the water off the coast of Split in the early hours of Monday morning. The accident occurred at the city’s main harbour, when the young man fell off a yacht and hit his head. The alarm was immediately raised by friends and a full search was launched by local emergency services. Mr Buckley’s body was recovered at around 10am on Tuesday.

The finest of margins separated these two sides in MacHale Park on Sunday afternoon, after looking like they were on the verge of a trimming 12 minutes in when they trailed by 0-7 to 0-1, Mayo came within inches of knocking Galway of their throne as the Queens of Connacht with a heroic display that came up just short in the final few minutes, where Galway’s greater composure in front of the posts saw them edge this battle.

A fundraiser will be held at Monroe’s Tavern, Dominick Street, on Friday September 26 from 8pm to raise money for an oncology nurse who was left paralysed from the waist down following a spinal stroke earlier this year.

Hundreds of people lined College Road on Sunday in honour of one of Kilkenny’s best loved citizens.

Róisín O’Reilly is probably best known to Irish audiences through her work with Liam Lawton, recording songs on his albums “Another World” and “Time”, as well as featuring on two of Liam’s DVD’s including the spectacular open air concert “Song of a Celtic Soul” recorded in the Dublin Docklands in 2005.

A Galway family is celebrating a triple success at the Ulster Junior Squash Open.