The State is to spend more than €1.3m on new clothing and footwear for the country’s prison population over the next four years.

The State is to spend over €1.3m on new clothing and footwear for the country’s prison population over the next four years.

Eoghan Cormican picks out three players to watch in Wednesday's Munster U20 Football final between Cork and Kerry.

The GAA are set to review the schedule if not the structure of the Allianz Hurling League after they were impacted by the weather for a third consecutive season.

Kilkenny continued their pursuit for Allianz League honours with a commanding victory over a brave Laois side in Nowlan Park.

Depending on what route you take, it’s a journey of about four hours from John Evans’ native Killorglin to Aughrim, Wicklow GAA’s county ground.

Children were admitted to a dirty adult psychiatric unit with known choking hazards, according to the Mental Health Commission.

The operation to lift nearly 100 oil drums from the “ghost ship” stranded on rocks off the Cork coast has begun.

Babs Keating has lambasted the current standard of inter-county hurling refereeing, describing Johnny Murphy’s officiating of last Saturday’s Dublin-Wexford game as “the worst I’ve ever seen”.

Laois secured their Division 1 status for 2021 with victory over Carlow in a dramatic dogfight at MW Hire O’Moore Park, Portlaoise on Saturday.

The Laois hurlers ensured their Division 1 status for another year with a slender one-point win over neighbours Carlow in a real dogfight at MW Hire O’Moore Park, Portlaoise on Saturday night.

A number of prisoners were involved in a hostage situation at the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise this week.

A brilliant and dogged Laois display saw them qualify for a second successive Leinster U-20 final as they overcame Kildare in Portlaoise.

Just two points separate first from last in Division Two of the Allianz League after this rescheduled meeting in Portlaoise but the gap between Cavan and Laois on the day was enormous.

There was fun to be knocked out of that All-Ireland win. Especially as they’d been there before, only two years ago.

The Stillorgan gaelscoil were deserving winners as they withstood a brave second-half comeback from Kilkenny CBS.

Coughlan’s bar and music venue has been awarded Irish Music Venue of the Year at IMRO’s national music venue awards.

His wife Mary and daughters, Sinéad and Meadhbh, provided an update on his health at the Laois-Offaly election count in recent days.