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Healy has emerged over the last year as a key player in Munster’s squad – but his schoolboy mentors believe there is a lot more to come.

A year after his sudden passing saddened the rugby world, former team-mates and coaches pay tribute to a larger than life character.

Mr Ó Broin said the party always had an unregistered data protection compliance officer but said these issues were oversights that were rectified in recent weeks. Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe challenged Mr Ó Broin on the combining of the elector register, which has the names and addresses of people who have signed up to vote, with the marked register which records if they voted in the last election and how Sinn Féin holds this centrally for more than one constituency. Mr Ó Broin insisted the information was “tightly controlled” in terms of who has access. Mr McAuliff...

The recent meeting of Leinster and Munster – each at full-strength, for once – so close to Ireland’s championship opener, along with the variety of selection sub-plots in Limerick, evoked for many of a certain vintage the era when there truly was a final trial. Few recall these as halcyon days. They ruined Christmas. They heightened the pomposity of those selecting the team rather than those who coached it. The matches were predominantly dour affairs. And after all the fuss, the IRFU remained so historically blinkered that they rarely influenced selection. Their affected arrogance was s...

Mary Lou McDonald put on a brave face for the media scrum outside the RDS election count centre in May 2019, but the ashen expressions on senior Sinn Fein figures around her told a different story