An Irishman has described the scene of devastation after a van ploughed into pedestrians in Toronto.

Latest: An Irishman has described the scene of devastation after a van ploughed into pedestrians in Toronto.

The Special Criminal Court trial of a man accused of IRA membership has heard evidence of telephone calls warning of explosive devices at University College Cork and the Rock of Cashel in May 2011.

Allianz Hurling League Division 1A: Galway 2-15 Clare 1-17: Sideline tensions as Galway’s Jason Flynn lines up a free in injury time which he converted.

Shay Given and his Republic of Ireland team-mates will return to Euro 2016 battle next year with renewed spirit after soothing the pain of defeat in Scotland.

Reigning AIB Ulster Club SFC Champions Crossmaglen Rangers bowed out following a replay defeat to Kilcoo today.

Westmeath 1-15 London 0-11

A leading consultant psychiatrist who bit two gardaí when they tried to arrest him outside a pub for being drunk believed his drink had been spiked, a court heard yesterday.

Thurles Sarsfield 1-14 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-20

Finuge (Kerry) 0-9 Monasterevan (Kildare) 0-5

Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 1-21 De La Salle (Waterford) 1-16

I left home at 11am yesterday morning, in heavy rain, heading for Cork and the thought hit me — what were the Munster Council thinking when they fixed this game for a place that is neither here nor there for either Thurles Sars or for De La Salle?

This period Portobello terraced home has a new look thanks to good design and the right use of materials, Tommy Barker reports

STEPHEN WARD has been here before.

KEEPING Lar Corbett scoreless — it’s a winning formula.

PEAMOUNT UNITED need a miracle in Paris next Wednesday after their UEFA Women’s Champions League ambitions took a huge dent last night.

CROKE PARK had already disgorged most of its patrons onto the streets of the northside when some stewards walked out to the centre of the pitch and asked Bernard Brogan and three of his colleagues if they wouldn’t mind moving on.

Tipperary defender Conor O’Mahony doesn’t disguise his admiration for Kilkenny hurling

IRELAND’S Michael O’Reilly and Gary Sweeney are through to today’s finals at the European Youth Championships following wins at the Citywest Convention Centre in Dublin last night.

QUARTER-TO-SEVEN on a Saturday evening isn’t everyone’s idea of a suitable throw-in time, but you won’t find Declan O’Sullivan complaining.

THE favourites’ mantle is not one that has ever sat well with the footballers of Cork. While the county’s hurlers would have accepted it as their birthright, it tended to cause the big ball men acute discomfort.

LEINSTER Rugby chiefs are ‘monitoring’ the weather conditions sweeping across the country but are confident this evening’s Heineken Cup game against Clermont Auvergne at the Aviva Stadium (5.45pm) will not be impacted by the cold snap.

THERE was a poignant moment before Sunday’s Munster club SHC final in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, as referee John Sexton blew his whistle to end an impeccably observed minute’s silence to respect the memory of another John Sexton, his father, who had been buried the previous day.

A DECLARATION of intent on the pitch tonight to match the one delivered by Giovanni Trapattoni at his press conference yesterday would be nice.

Armagh 3-15 London 3-14

London 2-12 Derry 0-15

THE minor footballers of New York and Galway gave each another more than the shirts of their backs after last night’s Connacht championship clash at Pearse Stadium.

TADHG KENNELLY will be fit to line out for Kerry in Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC qualifier against defeated Ulster finalists Antrim (Tullamore, 2pm).

THE BONFIRES were ablaze in Puckane last night as Kildangan celebrated its first North Tipperary senior hurling title since 1943, its third in all, a victory made all the sweeter in that it was achieved in the most unlikely of circumstances over neighbours and fierce rivals, Burgess.

A ROW has flared up over plans to bring Dublin’s gridlocked streets to a crawl by slashing speed limits to 30km/h.

A row was brewing tonight over plans to bring Dublin’s gridlocked streets to a crawl by slashing speed limits to just 30kph (18.6mph).

DLS Waterford 4-17Thurles CBS 3-19(after extra-time)

NEW restrictions must be placed on heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) to stop cyclists being killed, it was claimed yesterday.

New restrictions must be placed on heavy goods vehicles to stop cyclists being killed in large numbers, it was claimed today.

ONE of the world’s top hi-tech racing yachts is on its way to Cork this weekend, but it won’t be sailing under its own power.

THE rapidly improving Callow Lake struck a blow for the four-year-olds when leading his rivals a merry dance in the Nire Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

A FIANNA FÁIL councillor has resigned from the party, citing the Government’s failure to listen to the grassroots as his main motivation.

EVERYTHING comes in threes, even body blows, as Kerry footballers found to their chagrin yesterday.

A record breaking score has been achieved at the €35,000 Philip Walton Dundrum House Pro-Am.