Mayo renewable energy startup Solar MarineEnergy is making plans to build Ireland’s first floating solar energy plant which it proposes to locate in Cork harbour.

A “most unusual” case in which a greyhound was doped “by an unidentified person” has been referred to gardaí by the Irish Greyhound Board.

A boy kicked a live electric wire out of his 10-year-old friend’s hand when he saw he was being electrocuted, a court was told yesterday.

Tipperary 1-21, Limerick 0-17: Of course it was unfair to expect Tipperary to click for a third consecutive game.

Tipperary 7-12 Galway 2-12

A number of teams getting into championship gear this weekend...

The Comeragh mountain range in Co Waterford is an area of spectacular natural beauty, a relatively undiscovered gem that is home to stunning glacial lakes, picturesque waterfalls and hidden caverns.

Lismore, Co Waterford

Avondale United continued their dominance of the FAI Umbro Intermediate Cup by claiming a record-equalling four titles in-a-row with a dominating display against UCD at Turner’s Cross yesterday.

I’LL never forget the first time I saw Coumshingaun.

A new film explores the Galway roots of workers in iconic image, says Pádraic Killeen

Rape victim Fiona Doyle said she hopes her meeting with Taoiseach Enda Kenny will be an important step in improving the rights of victims of sex crimes.

A RECENTLY retired garda superintendent who died after sustaining injuries in a fall will be laid to rest following his requiem Mass today.

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter yesterday said a referendum on children’s rights would be held “early in the New Year” as he defended Ireland’s human rights record before the United Nations.

THERE’S nothing novel in your newspaper devising election posters for Fianna Fáil (Front page, June 18).

ANOTHER rugby awards ceremony, another addition to Brian O’Driscoll’s trophy cabinet.

THE recession blues were banished in Cork at the weekend, when over 50,000 revellers attended the Guinness Jazz Festival, worth in the region of €6 million to the city.

TICKETS have just gone on sale for what promises to be another epic Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. The October Bank Holiday event will feature more than 1,000 musicians from 29 countries.

IRELAND’S most advanced wave power company plans to raise up to €20 million next year towards the commercial development of a sea-driven turbine currently generating power off the west coast.

A Waterford mother who alleges that she was raped in her home by two Wexford men pointed out one of the accused to gardaí in an informal identification parade and said: "I thinks that's him but I am not sure."

Ronan O’Gara (Munster and Ireland) has been named as the Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland Player of the Year and Munster the Team of the Year for the season 2007/2008.

The Munster brand received another boost on Tuesday when they announced a sponsorship partnership with Guinness.

A convicted rapist who robbed two taxi-drivers at syringe-point and drove off in one of their cars has been jailed for seven years by Judge Patrick McCartan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE success of the Guinness partnership with the GAA over the past 13 years was one of the primary reasons for the company remaining as one of the three sponsors of the GAA All-Ireland senior hurling championship, according to Michael Whelan, Sponsorship Director of Diageo.

A car key given to gardaí by a Waterford man on trial for the murder of his wife was not a spare as he had claimed a Central Criminal Court jury.

THE man who fell into the River Suir in Cahir on Saturday night had been married for less than a year, it emerged last night.

OCEAN ENERGY, headquartered in Cobh, Co Cork, has been nominated for a prestigious Rushlight Award in London for its contribution to wave energy technology.

Leinster and Argentina star Felipe Contepomi was crowned the Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland Player of the Year at a luncheon at Killiney's Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel this afternoon.

AN IRISH company which has developed a revolutionary wave energy device is poised to capture a massive slice of the sector’s €200 billion global market.

ONE man with more than a passing interest in tomorrow’s Dr Harty Cup final is Michael Power from Waterford, who hopes his son Stephen can succeed where he failed in 1976, when DLS Waterford lost to St Flannan’s in the final in Bansha, 2-9 to 3-4.

More than €1m of public money is to be spent on victim support groups this year, the Government announced today.

THE Irish coach, Eddie O’Sullivan, is looking forward to welcoming back stalwarts Malcolm O’Kelly, Simon Easterby and Frankie Sheahan for the autumn international series of games.

PAUL O’CONNELL has been named Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland Player of the Year.

A new specialist commission is to be set up to support victims of crime, it emerged tonight.

GUINNESS have been unveiled as the new sponsors of the Punchestown Gold Cup.

Teen sensation Cian McNamara produced two stunning extra time comebacks to win the Shell Ireland sponsored South of Ireland title at Lahinch.

THE GAA yesterday unveiled a detailed and ambitious plan to combat the growing abuse of alcohol and substance abuse.

THE GAA are not prepared to behave like ‘wimps’ and abandon Guinness’ sponsorship of the hurling championship merely because of the dissatisfaction of Micheal Martin with the partnership, president Sean Kelly declared last night.

Dublin-based BCP Asset Management have increased their London property portfolio by £34 m

LIAM LAWLOR used a solicitor’s firm in London to shelter the proceeds of money from the sale of his land in Dublin three years ago, lawyers for the Planning Tribunal claimed yesterday.

LIAM LAWLOR is set to find out later this week if he will face the prospect of a criminal prosecution for perjury over his recent evidence to the Planning Tribunal.

The Celtic League was given a boost today by the announcement that canned draught Guinness is to become the Official Beer to Celtic League Rugby.

LIAM LAWLOR could be facing a separate criminal prosecution on top of a fourth term in prison following his latest evidence to the Planning Tribunal.

KILDARE have not given up hope that midfielder Alan Barry will be eligible to play in tomorrow evening’s All-Ireland football qualifier game against Roscommon in Portlaoise.

The GAA's new alcohol abuse task force has met for the first time.

THE Planning Tribunal has referred the non-attendance of an English solicitor at yesterday’s sitting of the inquiry to the English Law Society.