A Confederate flag was confiscated from a young Cork supporter following yesterday’s All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Galway in Thurles.

Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI) have called on the GAA to ban the Confederate flag from their grounds after a variation of it appeared in Fitzgerald Stadium at the Munster SFC final last Sunday.

Fans of the popular drama Love/Hate can support two great charities by purchasing a Coola Boola Santa Hat this Christmas.

GAA president Liam O’Neill has praised the Wexford County Board for their handling of a racism case.

The National Rehabilitation Hospital is to get a replacement, purpose-built, 120- bed facility on its site in Dún Laoghaire.

THERE are weekly incidents of racial abuse in Irish sports, an anti-racism campaigner has claimed.

ALMOST 10 years after a strategy was launched to deal with the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance in Ireland, Ennis General Hospital is set to become Ireland’s first fully SARI compliant facility for inpatient accommodation.

FORMER Irish soccer manager Brian Kerr has accused the Government of being unchristian for deporting autistic Nigerian schoolboy Great Agbonlahor.

DROGHEDA UNITED will look to get back to their customary winning ways in the eircom League tonight when they take on Sligo Rovers at The Showgrounds (7.30pm).

AS THE familiar figure took his place at the top table behind the microphones, it was almost like deja vu - except of course that, in reality, everything had changed utterly.

BRIAN KERR has revealed that he received racist hate mail during his time as manager of the Republic of Ireland.

Racists sent vile hate mail to members of the Irish football squad while Brian Kerr was manager, it emerged today.

Former Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr will today launch an anti-racism soccer tournament while he awaits the next stage in his career.

CORK City and Derry City may have topped the league but they have been forced to play second fiddle to UCD in the 2005 eircom league Premier Division Fair Play table.

Ireland’s biggest anti-racism sports event — The SARI Intercultural Soccerfest — takes place this weekend at the Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Two charities have received donations of €50,000 each from An Post, raised from sales of St Patrick's Day cards designed by John Rocha and artist Graham Knuttel.

Hundreds of people were today gathering on a beach to commemorate the life of Bali terrorist bomb victim Marc Gajardo.

Outside the Sanglah morgue in Bali’s capital Denpasar stand scores of makeshift wooden coffins, piled haphazardly on top of each other.