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Imagine you do something really bad, like breaking all the rules in a game, but instead of getting punished, someone says, “Come stay with me. You’ll be safe here.” That’s what happens with some powerful leaders when they lose power or get into trouble. Here’s an example: Bashar al-Assad, who used to rule Syria, caused a lot of pain in his country. But when things got too dangerous for him, he didn’t stick around to face the consequences. Instead, he ran off to Russia, where he’s now being protected. This kind of “help” has been going on for centuries. A History of Helping the Powerful Powerful people looking out for each other isn’t new. Long ago, Humayun, a Mughal king, got help from Persia when he lost his throne. When royal families in France or Russia had to flee their countries, other European rulers gave them a safe place to live. Even in modern times, India gave the Dalai Lama a home when he escaped from Tibet, and more recently, helped Sheikh Hasina, who leads Bangladesh. Sometimes, even terrible leaders get this special treatment. Idi Amin, who hurt thousands of people in Uganda, ended up living a comfy life in Saudi Arabia. Jean-Claude Duvalier from Haiti, who stole millions of dollars, lived in Paris. Mengistu Haile Mariam, accused of genocide in Ethiopia, found safety in Zimbabwe. Why Are Some People Saved and Others Aren’t? Here’s the truth: powerful people often get help because they’re still useful to someone. Countries and leaders sometimes make deals like, “I’ll protect you now if you help me later.” But this special treatment is usually only for the rich or politically important. For regular people, it’s a different story. Think about Alan Kurdi, a little boy whose picture shook the world. His family was trying to escape the war in Syria (caused by Assad) and reach Europe in a small, unsafe boat. He didn’t survive. Unlike the powerful, ordinary people don’t have anyone watching their backs when they’re in danger. In the end, the rules seem unfair: powerful people get away with a lot, while the rest often face the worst consequences.Canada's new public-sector payment system is still years away from being implemented

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. Trump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole, arguing that it was senseless and insulted the families of their victims. Biden said converting their punishments to life imprisonment was consistent with the moratorium imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. “Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country,” he wrote on his social media site. “When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening!” Presidents historically have no involvement in dictating or recommending the punishments that federal prosecutors seek for defendants in criminal cases, though Trump has long sought more direct control over the Justice Department's operations. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific actions he may take and said they would be in cases of “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.” He highlighted the cases of two men who were on federal death row for slaying a woman and a girl, had admitted to killing more and had their sentences commuted by Biden. On the campaign trail, Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of drug and human trafficking, and migrants who kill U.S. citizens. “Trump has been fairly consistent in wanting to sort of say that he thinks the death penalty is an important tool and he wants to use it,” said Douglas Berman, an expert on sentencing at Ohio State University’s law school. “But whether practically any of that can happen, either under existing law or other laws, is a heavy lift.” Berman said Trump’s statement at this point seems to be just a response to Biden’s commutation. “I’m inclined to think it’s still in sort of more the rhetoric phase. Just, ‘don’t worry. The new sheriff is coming. I like the death penalty,’” he said. Most Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual polling by Gallup, but support has declined over the past few decades. About half of Americans were in favor in an October poll, while roughly 7 in 10 Americans backed capital punishment for murderers in 2007. Before Biden's commutation, there were 40 federal death row inmates compared with more than 2,000 who have been sentenced to death by states. “The reality is all of these crimes are typically handled by the states,” Berman said. A question is whether the Trump administration would try to take over some state murder cases, such as those related to drug trafficking or smuggling. He could also attempt to take cases from states that have abolished the death penalty. Berman said Trump's statement, along with some recent actions by states, may present an effort to get the Supreme Court to reconsider a precedent that considers the death penalty disproportionate punishment for rape. “That would literally take decades to unfold. It’s not something that is going to happen overnight,” Berman said. Before one of Trump's rallies on Aug. 20, his prepared remarks released to the media said he would announce he would ask for the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers. But Trump never delivered the line. One of the men Trump highlighted on Tuesday was ex-Marine Jorge Avila Torrez, who was sentenced to death for killing a sailor in Virginia and later pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old girl in a suburban Chicago park several years before. The other man, Thomas Steven Sanders, was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Louisiana, days after shooting the girl's mother in a wildlife park in Arizona. Court records show he admitted to both killings. Some families of victims expressed anger with Biden's decision, but the president had faced pressure from advocacy groups urging him to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. The ACLU and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were some of the groups that applauded the decision. Biden left three federal inmates to face execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. _______ Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Michelle L. Price and Eric Tucker contributed to this report.2024-25 boys basketball capsules | Area teams look for improvement on the courtLAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Thomas Brown insists he's focused on the job at hand and not the one he might have down the line. His immediate task as the interim coach of the Chicago Bears is helping the team finish strong over the final five games, starting this weekend at San Francisco. The rest of his life can wait. “I think about just the moment. ... I obviously understand the role that I'm in, understand what might come with it," he said Wednesday. "But I also understand that we make most situations bigger than what it has to be because of the outside noise, what everybody else puts a value on it.” The Bears are in a moment unlike any other in the history of the founding NFL franchise. They fired a head coach for the first time during a season when they let Matt Eberflus go on Friday with a 4-8 record and the team in a six-game losing streak marked by head-scratching decisions. They promoted Brown, who in a span of three weeks went from passing game coordinator to offensive coordinator and now the person in charge. The tipping point was a 23-20 loss at Detroit on Thanksgiving, when the Bears let the clock run down rather than call a timeout following a sack. It led to Caleb Williams throwing an incomplete pass from the Lions 41 as time expired when Chicago should have been able to run more than one play. Star cornerback Jaylon Johnson interrupted Eberflus' postgame speech and made his feelings clear. Other players had gone public in recent weeks with their frustrations over the coaching decisions, and they didn't exactly hide their emotions following the Detroit game. On Wednesday, defensive end DeMarcus Walker said he sensed a change was coming after the loss to the Lions. “You guys just look at the whole turnaround, how everything had been going, we just knew some changes were going to be made,” he said. The 38-year-old Brown now has a huge opportunity. He spent last season as Carolina's offensive coordinator and the previous three on Sean McVay's staff with the Los Angeles Rams — the final two as assistant head coach. Prior to that, he spent nine years as a college assistant, including stops at Wisconsin, Georgia, Miami and South Carolina. It's his job to help right a team that came into the season thinking a playoff spot was in reach. Williams' development obviously will be front and center. To that end, the No. 1 overall draft pick has looked more comfortable in the three games since Brown took over for the fired Shane Waldron as offensive coordinator, completing 75 of 117 passes for 827 yards with five touchdowns, no interceptions and a rating of 99.2. Though Brown will continue to call plays, the Bears have another new offensive coordinator in wide receivers coach Chris Beatty. “I think it is a stepping stone actually with my development because I think down the line I’ll have different OCs or different head coaches or whatever the case may be,” Williams said. “And so being able to handle it my first year, handle a new playbook, handle all these different changes, handle all of this I think it definitely will help the development instead of hurting it or anything like that.” Beyond the development of the prized quarterback, Brown also will be judged during his audition for the regular job on his preparation, decisions during games and command of the locker room. He said he reached out to each player individually on Friday and Saturday and tried to set a tone when the team met on Monday. “I want them to be excellent,” Brown said. “I can nitpick at every single play and tell a guy how he wasn’t perfect. And, so, perfection’s not the goal. It’s to excel at your craft.” Notes: The Bears had a lengthy injury report on Wednesday. WRs Keenan Allen (ankle) and DJ Moore (quad), RBs D'Andre Swift (quad) and Roschon Johnson (concussion), DB Elijah Hicks (ankle) and OL Ryan Bates (concussion) all missed practice. S Kevin Byard (shoulder) and OLs Darnnell Wright (knee) and Coleman Shelton (knee) were limited. ___ AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL Andrew Seligman, The Associated PressThe United States has revealed shocking information about the growing military ties between North Korea and Russia. According to the head of the U.S. Pacific Command, Russia is going to give North Korea advanced fighter jets in exchange for the thousands of soldiers Pyongyang has reportedly sent to support Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine. This military cooperation is a significant shift in the dynamics of international alliances and raises concerns about its potential consequences. North Korean Troops Sent To Russia’s War Front US Indo-Pacific Command Admiral Samuel Paparo confirmed that North Korean forces have been deployed on Russian front lines in the region of Kursk where Ukrainian forces have been trying to mount a counter offensive against Russian troops since the month of August. However, while Paparo acknowledged that these North Korean soldiers are positioned in active combat zones, he clarified that they have not yet engaged in fighting. This statement contradicts the claims of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who previously suggested that the North Korean forces had already participated in the conflict. North Korean soldiers in the conflict zone of Ukraine: A deeper commitment by the two countries to supporting Russia’s war effort and a growing military alliance. Fighter Jets For North Korea Reports indicate that it will provide North Korea’s MiG-29 and Su-27 fighter jets in exchange for the involvement of North Korean troops in its forces. The above-mentioned Soviet-era jet was introduced over four decades ago, and its influence on North Korea’s airpower is expected to make a huge difference. MiG-29 and Su-27 are not actually considered modern platforms, yet they are still formidable pieces of equipment that will probably give Pyongyang a strategic uplift in its air force ability. Admiral Paparo said that even though they are old, these aircraft are still very potent weapons in the arsenal of North Korea. Traditionally, North Korea has acquired its combat aircraft from the Soviet Union and later from China. South Korea, on the other hand, has more advanced aircraft, including U.S.-made F-15s, F-16s, F-35 stealth fighters, and the indigenous KAI T-50. Escalating military cooperation between Russia and North Korea has sent alarm bells around the world. The United States and its allies have grave concerns about the transfer of advanced military technology resulting from these expanded ties for the development of North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs. The United Nations has been sanctioning Pyongyang for years due to its weapons programs, and the presence of Russia being able to help circumvent that could be quite problematic. Recent reports indicate that the two countries have had mutual military exchanges in the past few months. The defense chief of South Korea recently confirmed that Russia had sent air defense missiles to North Korea, likely in return for Pyongyang’s contribution of fresh troops to the Russian cause. Seoul has also accused North Korea of sending large quantities of munitions to replenish Russia’s dwindling stockpiles, further deepening the military collaboration between the two countries. It appears that Ukraine , in its military equipment needs, would still have to rely on aging fighter jets such as the F-16 fighter jets supplied by European allies. Ukraine has been ordered more F-16 next year, with France confirming that it would send some Mirage 2000 fighters, which have been operational for over 40 years, just like the MiG-29 and the Su-27. However, the dynamics of the current war in Ukraine are complicated because both sides are relying on outdated military technology, plus the rapidly shifting alignments of global military powers. Growing North Korea-Russia Alliance The growing partnership between Russia and North Korea has raised regional and international concerns. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin labeled the deployment of North Korean soldiers to the front lines of Russia a “dangerous and destabilizing escalation.” This is a point that reflects increased tensions and broader implications. Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a historic military cooperation agreement. Both nations have tried to tone down the importance of the pact, saying it does not threaten countries that are not engaging in hostile actions. But the growing military contacts between the two nations and North Korean troops deployment together with the transfer of fighter jets have raised the alarms for further destabilization within the region. ALSO READ | Nancy Mace Faces Backlash As Old Drinking Game Video Surfaces Amid Transgender Debate

Police arrested a 26-year-old man on Monday in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after they say a Pennsylvania McDonald's worker alerted authorities to a customer who resembled the suspected gunman. The suspect, identified by police as Luigi Nicholas Mangione, had a gun believed to be the one used in Wednesday’s attack on Brian Thompson , as well as writings expressing anger at corporate America, police said. Here are some of the latest developments in the investigation: Mangione was taken into custody at around 9:15 a.m. after police received a tip that he was eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 85 miles (137 kilometers) east of Pittsburgh, police said. Mangione was being held in Pennsylvania on gun charges and will eventually be extradited to New York to face charges in connection with Thompson’s death , said NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. In addition to a three-page, handwritten document that suggests he harbored “ill will toward corporate America,” Kenny said Mangione also had a ghost gun, a type of weapon that can be assembled at home and is difficult to trace. Officers questioned Mangione, who was acting suspiciously and carrying multiple fraudulent IDs, as well as a U.S. passport, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference. Officers also found a sound suppressor, or silencer, “consistent with the weapon used in the murder,” the commissioner said. He had clothing and a mask similar to those worn by the shooter and a fraudulent New Jersey ID matching one the suspect used to check into a New York City hostel before the shooting, Tisch said. Kenny said Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, has ties to San Francisco and that his last known address is in Honolulu. Mangione, who was valedictorian of his Maryland prep school, earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania, a university spokesman told The Associated Press on Monday. He learned to code in high school and helped start a club at Penn for people interested in gaming and game design, according to a 2018 story in Penn Today, a campus publication. His social media posts also suggest that he belonged to the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. They also show him taking part in a 2019 program at Stanford University, and in photos with family and friends at the Jersey Shore and in Hawaii, San Diego, Puerto Rico, and other destinations. The Gilman School, from which Mangione graduated in 2016, is one of Baltimore’s elite prep schools. Some of the city’s wealthiest and most prominent people, including Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr., have had children attend the school. Its alumni include sportswriter Frank Deford and former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington. In his valedictory speech, Luigi Mangione described his classmates’ “incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things,” according to a post on the school website. He praised their collective inventiveness and pioneering mindset. Mangione took a software programming internship after high school at Maryland-based video game studio Firaxis, where he fixed bugs on the hit strategy game Civilization 6, according to a LinkedIn profile. Firaxis parent company Take-Two Interactive said Monday it would not comment on former employees. He more recently worked at the car-buying website TrueCar, according to the head of the Santa Monica, California-based company. “While we generally don’t comment on personnel matters, we confirm that Luigi Mangione has not been an employee of our company since 2023,” TrueCar CEO Jantoon Reigersman said by email. Mangione comes from a prominent Maryland family. His grandfather Nick Mangione, who died in 2008, was a successful real estate developer. One of his best-known projects was Turf Valley Resort, a sprawling luxury retreat and conference center outside Baltimore that he purchased in 1978. The father of 10 children, Nick Mangione prepared his five sons — including Luigi Mangione’s father, Louis Mangione — to help manage the family business, according to a 2003 Washington Post report. The Mangione family also purchased Hayfields Country Club north of Baltimore in 1986. On Monday, Baltimore County police officers blocked off an entrance to the property, which public records link to Luigi Mangione’s parents. Reporters and photographers gathered outside the entrance. Luigi Mangione is one of 37 grandchildren of Nick Mangione, according to the grandfather's obituary. Luigi Mangione's grandparents donated to charities through the Mangione Family Foundation, according to a statement from Loyola University commemorating Nick Mangione’s wife’s death in 2023. They donated to various causes ranging from Catholic organizations to colleges and the arts. One of Luigi Mangione’s cousins is Republican Maryland state legislator Nino Mangione, a spokesman for the lawmaker's office confirmed Monday. Police said the person who killed Thompson left a hostel on Manhattan's Upper West Side at 5:41 a.m. on Wednesday. Just 11 minutes later, he was seen on surveillance video walking back and forth in front of the New York Hilton Midtown, wearing a distinctive backpack. At 6:44 a.m., he shot Thompson at a side entrance to the hotel, fled on foot, then climbed aboard a bicycle and within four minutes had entered Central Park. Another security camera recorded the gunman leaving the park near the American Museum of Natural History at 6:56 a.m. still on the bicycle but without the backpack. After getting in a taxi, he headed north to a bus terminal near the George Washington Bridge, arriving at around 7:30 a.m. From there, the trail of video evidence runs cold. Police have not located video of the suspect exiting the building, leading them to believe he likely took a bus out of town. Police said they are still investigating the path the suspect took to Pennsylvania. “This just happened this morning," Kenny said. "We’ll be working, backtracking his steps from New York to Altoona, Pennsylvania,” Kenny said. Associated Press reporters Lea Skene in Baltimore, Matt O'Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, and Cedar Attanasio in New York contributed to this report. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. 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That Tahir Ali, a backbench Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley, could stand up in the House of Commons and openly demand the reintroduction of blasphemy laws to “prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions” was disgraceful enough. What was even worse was Keir Starmer’s pedestrian response that “desecration is awful” and that his government was “committed to tackling all forms of hatred and division”, rather than bluntly answering the question with a simple and firm no. Blasphemy laws have no place in a liberal democracy – as we claim to be – and his party shouldn’t countenance them. This wasn’t even the first time a MP has called for blasphemy laws in Parliament in recent years. In 2021, Naz Shah called for punishment to be dished out to those who “defame, slander or abuse our Prophet”. And Ali’s intervention was did not occur without a context. Britain has not had de jure blasphemy laws since 2008 (though they still exist in Northern Ireland). Yet, we do operate under a creeping de facto blasphemy taboo thanks to a series of outrages involving intimidation and threats of violence. In 2021, a teacher at Batley Grammar School was forced into hiding – and, disgracefully for our society, appears to still be there – after he received death threats for showing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in class. In that same year, there were protests outside cinemas against the film, The Lady of Heaven , in Birmingham, Bradford and Sheffield, for supposedly portraying Aisha, one of the wives of Muhammad, in a disparaging light. Tellingly, Cineworld cancelled its screenings “to ensure the safety of our staff and customers”. Last year, in Wakefield , four pupils were suspended from a secondary school after a copy of the Koran was scuffed. An autistic boy involved in the affair received death threats, leading to his mother’s appearance alongside police in the local mosque, apologising for her child’s “disrespectful” behaviour. Tahir Ali was mindful to couch his demand in inclusive language so as to not come across as blatantly sectarian. But given he prefaced his remarks with a mention of Islamophobia Awareness Month and by citing a recent UN Human Rights Council resolution condemning the desecration of the Koran, it is obvious his interests weren’t ecumenical, but to protect one particular religion: Islam. The implicit argument in favour of blasphemy laws is that is that they’ll help maintain “social cohesion” and civil tranquillity in a diverse society like ours. In other words, they’ll enforce a multicultural decorum between different “communities”. Every community has its taboos, don’t they? So, why not institutionalise respect for them in law? Because this makes a mockery of pluralism. Living in a truly liberal, diverse society inevitably means confronting beliefs and opinions that offend and challenge yours to the core. That’s the price you pay for living in a free society. And part of the reason these blasphemy outrages can be so unsettling to many liberals is that they represent a profound culture clash. When a believing Muslim earnestly says that any “blasphemy” against the Prophet is a profound assault on his honour and that of all Muslims, liberals simply don’t comprehend the theological profundity of the sentiment. That is because they underestimate the intensity of belief and depth of emotion behind it, and are disarmed from properly confronting it. Ever since Voltaire, we have understood that one of the essential conditions of a free society is the ability to poke fun at religious authority. Mockery of religion demystifies its supposed holy pretensions and reveals it as a man-made myth, containing all the ironies, flaws and absurdities that come with human existence. The criticism of religion is beginning of all criticism, as Karl Marx said. If you can’t criticise, mock and satirise religion and its icons, then you can’t criticise, mock and satirise anything. What’s more, blasphemy laws will not protect Muslims from racism or religious hatred. They only lead to absurdity and hypocrisy. They don’t protect the vulnerable; instead they are weaponised by wannabe “community spokesmen” to stigmatise and silence dissenters ( The Lady of Heaven film was made by Shia Muslims but faced a campaign of intimidation from Sunni fundamentalists thanks to a sectarian squabble). But a simple and universal principle is at stake here: religions that make extraordinary claims for themselves should face ruthless criticism – and see if they are able to withstand it. RelatedOnex Corporation Announces Exemptive Relief in Substantial Issuer Bid

The Washington Commanders released 2023 first-rounder Emmanuel Forbes on Saturday, cutting ties with another high draft pick from the previous regime. All of previous coach Ron Rivera's first-rounders — including edge rusher Chase Young in 2020, linebacker Jamin Davis in ‘21 and wide receiver Jahan Dotson in '22 — are now gone. Forbes never showed progress to the new staff led by coach Dan Quinn and was a healthy scratch twice this season and did not play in two other games during which the 23-year-old was in uniform. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.Best Fantasy Football Week 15 Defense Streamers (D/ST): Get Your D/ST Spot Set For Round One of the Fantasy Playoffs - Roto Street JournalNo. 22 Army faces unexpected foe La. Tech in Independence Bowl

NoneCuala 1-14 St Mary’s Ardee 2-10 They may have only had the honour to themselves for little over an hour, but it doesn’t diminish Cuala’s achievement. Their close-run victory over St Mary’s Ardee in the Leinster club football final made them the first club to win the provincial senior title in both codes after their hurlers led the way in 2016 and ‘17, though in the second game of the Croke Park double bill, Na Fianna emulated them by winning the hurling title to add to their football crown from way back in 1999. “It’s unbelievable,” said midfielder Peadar Ó Cofaigh Byrne of the achievement. “I didn't actually know about that, I don't think many of the lads did. The week was so quick, we only played Tullamore last week. So we weren't really thinking of that but at the same time it is an amazing achievement and we don't take that for granted.” READ MORE: Dublin midfielder sounds note of caution as new football rules sweep through Special Congress READ MORE: Jim Gavin hails 'Great opportunity for football' and says, 'Negativity surprises me' Although there isn’t a big overlap between their hurlers and footballers, the culture that had been developed in the club by the hurlers’ successes counted for something, said the big midfielder. “I’m not sure if it stood to us but it did 100% for the support we had. There’s a lot of people out there who would have done all that organising a couple of years ago out organising trains and buses and 100%, we get a huge lift from every person that is out there. “It is really a thing we are really aware of and going home seeing all the flags and everyone out and pushing us on, which is great and getting the train and it’s packed, that's something that has definitely stood to us. “The support is there we just needed a reason to come out and support us and we've done that.” Cuala were anything but comfortable winners in the end, despite leading by nine points after 20 minutes as they built up a 1-6 to 0-0 advantage, with Con O’Callaghan hitting three of their points and setting up Conor O’Brien for the goal. St Mary’s finally found their scoring range, slotting three frees in quick succession but they still trailed 1-7 to 0-3 at the break and it was only after the black-carding of Eoin Kennedy in the 46th minute that their challenge ignited. Two goals in a minute from sub Ryan Rooney and Sean Callaghan levelled the game and, in a breathless finish, O’Callaghan and Rooney missed scoreable chances at either end before Luke Keating kicked the winning point from a free, won by Mick Fitzsimons, in injury time. “Our whole season as Peadar will attest to is built on having courage and going for it and sticking to our principles,” said Cuala boss Austin O’Callaghan. “The game will come at you and challenge you in all sorts of ways but it is about sticking to your principles and having the presence of mind and I thought to a man they done that. There was some brilliant interceptions and blocks and when we got the chance at the end to kill it, Luke took it, which was great.” CUALA: R Scollard; D Conroy, M Fitzsimons (0-1), E O’Callaghan; E Kennedy (0-1), C McMorrow (0-1), D O’Dowd; P Ó Cofaigh Byrne, P Duffy; C Dunne, C O’Brien (1-1), C Doran (0-1); L Keating (0-3, 0-2f), N O’Callaghan (0-2), C O’Callaghan (0-4, 0-2f). Subs: C O Giolláin for Dunne (37), M Conroy for Conroy (43), C Groarke for O’Brien (43), S Mangan for O’Dowd (57). ST MARY’S ARDEE : T Markey (0-1f); T McDonnell (0-1), K Faulkner, E Keenan; J Commins (0-2, 0-1f), D McKenny, P McKenny; RJ Callaghan, S Callaghan (1-0); C Keenan (0-3f), L Jackson, K Moran; S Matthews, D McConnon (0-1), T Jackson. Subs: R Carroll for Matthews (43), R Rooney (1-2) for Moran (43), C Gillespie for Commins (53), R Leavy for Callaghan (57). REFEREE: S Mulhare (Laois). To keep up to date with all the latest GAA news, sign-up to our GAA newsletter here.

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