The trial heard that three men were all teenagers when they drove the then 18-year-old woman to Dollymount Strand were they are alleged to have raped her. They denied rape.

The woman said that reliving the events of the night she was raped was like reopening an old wound.

The Cork Business Association (CBA) says it will use "all resources at its disposal" to ensure that a €100m retail village project does not go ahead in the wider Cork metropolitan area.

GIVEN that the issue is largely to do with the men in the middle and how they apply — or not — the rules of the game, let’s start with a former All-Ireland referee.

Gary Owens has said that his and Niall Quinn’s combined salary “is significantly less than anybody has ever taken”.

New interim CEO Gary Owens has said he believes there will be “very few, if any redundancies” at the FAI after the signing of a refinancing deal to secure the future of the Association.

Latest: The Government has denied bailing out the Football Association of Ireland after announcing it is to give the organisation an interest-free €2.5m annual loan.

Niall Quinn has told Football Association of Ireland staff that the financial outlook isn’t as bad as he’d feared.

Thirty years after he emerged on the world stage at Italia 90 as ‘The Mighty Quinn’, the big man is being asked to lead Irish football from the front again.

Three-in-a-row winner Nicole Owens has rejected claims that a large gap has opened between the Dublin ladies and their rivals.

Dublin manager Mick Bohan has made two changes in personnel to the team that lined out against Cork for Sunday’s TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Final against Galway at Croke Park.

Sinéad Aherne scored 1-3 as champions Dublin advanced to the TG4 All-Ireland Championship senior final after seeing off the challenge of their great rivals Cork.

Given that much of the focus on last Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC final revolved around Richie Hogan’s sending off, arguably the most important moment of the match has almost gone underappreciated.

Richie Hogan has questioned James Owens’ decision to send him off in Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC final, insisting his elbow didn’t catch Cathal Barrett.

The GAA’s HawkEye review official Dickie Murphy has confirmed the score detection technology employee on duty for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC final twice analysed Brian Hogan’s catch before announcing the sliotar had passed his crossbar.

Richie Hogan has questioned James Owens’ decision to send him off in Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC final, insisting his elbow didn’t catch Cathal Barrett.

Last week, we brought you the management life and times of Brian Cody and Kilkenny in the words of Bruce Springsteen.

Michael Moynihan has rung all the juries, collated all the votes, and accepted all the bribes.

Cathal Barrett says former Kilkenny players are "clutching at straws" by highlighting an incident in yesterday’s All-Ireland final where he caught Richie Hogan in the face with his hurley.

As Liam Sheedy said, the second goal three minutes into the second half was what made this game Tipperary’s.

Trust me when I say this — it’s every referee’s worst nightmare to send a player off in an All-Ireland final.

A production of Hamlet with not one, but two princes.

Kilkenny were leading Tipperary by a point when Hogan made contact with the head of Cathal Barrett with a stray elbow along the Hogan Stand touchline.

As rain and hail drenched the first half, it wasn’t an afternoon for ‘playing through the lines’

A married couple have been remanded in custody on child cruelty charges after their nine-year-old daughter was discovered with serious injuries at her home in north Dublin.