Cork manager Ephie Fitzgerald has made four changes to the team that defeated Mayo as the Leesiders look to maintain their 100% record in Division 1 of the Lidl Ladies National Football League.

Referee Siohhan Coyle had to take the players off the pitch in the middle of a second-half hail storm.

A remarkable performance and late equaliser from Tipperary’s Aishling Moloney earned Shane Ronayne’s side a point as TG4 All-Ireland champions Dublin were unable to get their Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 campaign off to a winning start in Ballyboden.

A solicitor who claims a couple owe almost €246,000 in fees, costs and outlay for an unsuccessful High Court planning case is entitled to summary judgment orders for €150,000 of that sum, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

A key test, passed with flying colours. For a golden generation of young athletes, Saturday’s National Junior and U-23 Championships proved a low-key but high-intensity examination of their fitness as they prepare to take their talents to a bigger stage.

In late July and on through August, on the biggest days of the GAA calendar — when all other space is filled — the Nally Terrace will be home to the GAA supporters who are unable to get tickets for anywhere else in Croke Park.

Dr Padraig Carney, the star of Mayo’s All-Ireland winning football teams of 1950 and ‘51, died in California today, aged 91, after a short illness.

A man has died while out cycling in Swinford, Co Mayo.

Donegal gardaí have paid a touching tribute to their tragic colleague Robbie McCallion on the 10th anniversary of his death.

Five people died on the roads over the bank holiday weekend, bringing the total number of fatalities so far this year to 39.

A demand by Mayo County Council for the immediate removal of a roadside memorial to a 21-year-old youth who was murdered almost two years ago has been criticised by the victim’s family as “heartbreaking” and “insensitive”.

Latest: Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a 61-year-old man died in a traffic collision in Co Mayo.

"Any men left holding the bags can have a pint on us, while the other half spends the hard-earned cash!"

Goals from Bríd and Áine O’Sullivan eased champions Cork to an opening day Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 victory over Munster rivals Kerry in Knocknagoshel.

Latest: The two men arrested in relation to the death of Joseph Deacy have been released without charge.

Gardaí investigating the death of a man in Swinford, Co. Mayo on Saturday, August 12 have arrested two men.

A suspected murder investigation is continuing in Mayo after a 21-year-old died over the weekend.

A 72-year-old man with an intellectual disability was malnourished and severely dehydrated prior to his death at the Áras Attracta care centre in Mayo, an inquest has heard.

A woman who remains on paid administrative leave from her job as programme director of the HSE’s Aras Attracta facility has settled her case over an alleged HSE move to “re-discipline” her after she won an appeal against a decision to dismiss her.

The abuse suffered by Áras Attracta residents could be happening elsewhere in the country, the head of a review into the Mayo care centre has said.

IT IS almost two years since the Prime Time screening of ‘Inside Bungalow 3’, an RTÉ Investigations Unit programme that exposed horrifying abuse at a residential care unit run by the HSE.

Disabled people in the Aras Attracta care home were subjected to a bleak life of widespread control and conditioning, an official investigation has found.

It’s Swinford Railway Station on Friday, 31 July 1908. 

A 22-year-old man who suffered a brain injury as a child when the car he was in was involved in a collision has settled his High Court action for €5m.

Pessimism may be a tempting and often appropriate outlook when it comes to Irish athletics these days, but in Tullamore on Saturday, even the most cynical of souls couldn’t but be swayed: the future remains bright.

An investigation into the death of a woman in her 50s at Áras Attracta care centre in Co Mayo will examine whether staff knew she was in the kitchen.

It is being reported that a female resident has died at the Áras Attracta care home in Co Mayo.

A teenager with cerebral palsy has secured €5.56m and an apology from Mayo General Hospital under final settlement of her High Court action against the HSE over alleged negligence in the circumstances of her birth.

New Cork ladies senior football team manager Ephie Fitzgerald has added former county player and Nemo Rangers forward James Masters to his backroom team for the 2016 campaign.

Over €220,000 has been spent by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to date on investigations into one of its care facilities in Mayo at the centre of allegations of abuse towards vulnerable residents.

A single farmer in Co Mayo has won the right to be buried on his own land.

THE litany of disturbing disclosures about abuse, mismanagement and inappropriate use of sedatives at homes for the intellectually disadvantaged or the old has reached a point that demands decisive, culture-changing action.

Six people appeared in court yesterday for allegedly assaulting patients who are intellectually disabled at the HSE-run Áras Attracta centre in Swinford, Co Mayo.

Gardaí have said it would be “inappropriate to comment” on reports that five members of a Co Mayo care home are to be charged with assault following an investigation into care standards at the HSE-run facility.

The standard of Hiqa inspections into centres for people with disabilities has been questioned, with a new report claiming that failures to fully inspect some facilities could result in "concealment of abusive care practices".

Ladies Football: Valerie Mulcahy shone for Cork as the Tesco Homegrown National League Division 1 champions got their 2015 campaign off to a winning start yesterday.

The ESB says it has managed to return power to nearly 2,000 customers.

It was inevitable that the shocking abuse of residents uncovered at Áras Attracta in Swinford, a care home for adults with intellectual disabilities, was not an isolated case.

The HSE has signalled that "a more detailed investigation will be required" into complaints at a care unit for people with intellectual disabilities where 11 workers have been placed on leave.

The HSE has taken the first steps towards the possible installation of surveillance systems in its facilities to protect vulnerable patients in the wake of the Áras Attracta controversy.

The HSE has confirmed 10 staff and one agency worker at a disability service run by the Daughters of Charity in Tipperary have been taken off duty following complaints over "inappropriate" care practices.

Afri has called on the Government to fulfil its legal and moral obligations to prevent further use of Shannon and Irish air space for torture-related flights.

A woman who knows care services “from the inside out” has agreed to be the HSE’s confidential recipient of abuse claims.