Edenderry

Their Olympic boxing club teammate, Louise Joyce, won bronze as well.

But meanwhile, St. Bridget's boxing club in Eden Derry has been celebrating two under-15 medals, won by Alicia Ennis and Leila Ayres.

So that's five international medals between the clubs, an extraordinary achievement.

Well, joining me are Johnny Joyce, head coach at Olympic Boxing Club in Mullingar, and Jim Murren, the chairman of St. Bridget's.

Well, the message I give to them, first of all, they're involved in soccer, galley, all different sports.

to have committed this year to boxing and that's really all kids their age are into every sport and I'm sure you know yourself they're playing football they're playing soccer, daily hurling you name it and this year the two girls committed to boxing and to prove themselves that they're good enough to go on the world stage so to come home with a bronze medal from the Europeans To me, it's a huge thing.

I've seen Eden Derry was playing, and I'm not taking from the GAA, but they were out there with flags all over the town and everything.

There was nothing out for these two kids, and I'm sure John is the same and Moulin Gard.

Did that happen to you? And once...

Well, it goes all the way to Eden Derry.

I didn't get that far.

Eden Derry.

Eden Derry bus.

It's a perfectly good bus and it doesn't stop very often on the way from town.

That's why you would get it versus a Dublin bus.

It's almost a year and a half development between the two teams when you can really see it in the physicality of the game.

but the lads will fight on as it says phase one of the league and they'll find their own place to be at the end of it lastly then youth fixtures for this weekend we've won the 13s are playing Eden Derry at home on Friday night at quarter to eight The under-14s are out against Midland Warriors on Sunday at quarter past 12.

The under-15s are home to Gorey at 12.30 on Saturday.

And lastly, the under-18s are home to Portleach at 12 o'clock on Saturday.

Left Galway then and done a professional master's in education in Maynooth University.

I returned into the school, the secondary school that I attended and done one year teaching placement there in St. Mary's Eden Derry And then I continued on into Manute post-primary and Manute Community College, where I taught ag science and business studies.

So my background is in agriculture, but it's also in education.

And I've seen, I suppose...

Midland one oh three.

A night out with friends, a stag party in Athlone, and a man who should have been going home to Edenderry the following morning, but instead, forty-eight-year-old Paul Connolly, known affectionately to his family as Babs, lost his life after a prolonged assault on Church Street in August of twenty twenty-two.

A court has now heard that attack lasted twenty-one minutes, and that Paul was repeatedly knocked to the ground, and that several people tried to intervene.

Forty-year-old Sean Monelli has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for Paul's manslaughter, and court reporter Tom Tuite has been following the case.

Good morning.

Well, this, uh, was a, a dreadful incident back in August twenty-- twenty twenty-two, um, that led to two men being charged.

A youngish, m- much younger man, uh, was prosecuted for assault and violent disorder, and his case was disposed of a-about three years ago, in fact, while Sean Monelli's case was delayed, mostly because of forensic analysis, uh, related to the cause of death, um, in relation to Pops-- uh, Paul "Babs" Connolly, who was from Edenderry.

And it was subsequently found that, uh, he died from cardiac arrest, but it wasn't as simple as, simply as that.

Helen McEntee speaking a little while ago.

The Waterford arson attack, of course, is just the latest in a series of such violent crimes, including the house fire which killed a four-year-old boy and his aunt in Eden Derry, County Offaly.

Earlier this month, the President of the Circuit Court, Judge Kenan Johnson, spoke about the number of drug debt intimidation cases coming before him.

He described dealers who use young people as foot soldiers as being like a cancer.