It was discovered during a search of a property in the Kiltyclogher area on Wednesday.

There are three straightforward, interrelated questions to be asked about the proposed establishment by the GAA of a B All-Ireland Championship for inter-county Gaelic football:

For the fourth year in a row Clare followed their Munster Championship exit to Kerry with victory in their opening qualifier game of the summer, but the challenge for Colm Collins’ side is to to put

Clare fended off a strong Leitrim resurgence in the second-half as Colm Collins’s side worked their way into Round 3 of the qualifiers with a convincing win over Leinster at Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada.

The Lithuanian men, aged 22 and 49, were arrested on Tuesday during the search of a property in the Manorhamilton area.

In his brilliant book, Memoir, John McGahern wrote of growing up in Leitrim and of how, in rural communities, “the local and the individual were more powerful than any national identity”.

Westmeath and Derry top Division 2A and 2B respectively, while Roscommon (3A), Sligo and Longford (3B) are through to finals in the Allianz Hurling League.

When the rare opportunity drops to write about Leitrim, you might think the starting point would be John McGahern, and some devastating quote about love, loss and the tragic beauty of rural Ireland.

It happened just after midday on the Castlecara Road, in Carrick on Shannon.

When violence raises its head in society it dwarfs all else and requires a response that simply cannot be left open to be interpreted as equivocation, writes Michael Clifford.

Any sensible society has a deep well of communal mythologies, some of which it uses to sweeten bitter realities.

FBD League: Leitrim 2-13 Mayo 2-13 (Mayo win 4-1 on penalties)

Gardaí are investigating after an 80-year-old man died when his tractor hit a ditch in County Leitrim yesterday.

Consultants are being drafted to look at ways of combating flooding in parts of Leitrim, including removing pinch points on the River Shannon, as part of a €9m investment to tackle major flooding in the county.

The ISPCA are looking for help in finding a special home for a one metre long Royal Python.

There is just one driving tester working in Roscommon and Leitrim as more than 45,000 people around the country continue to wait for a driving test.

Gardaí in Co. Leitrim have seized around €140,000 worth of cannabis resin and a large amount of money.

A man in his 40s has been killed following a single vehicle collision in Leitrim last night.

Monaghan made short work of Leitrim as Conor McCarthy showed his class in the blistering sun of Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada.

Leitrim 0-25 Louth 1-12

Residents of Leitrim and Donegal were the most law-abiding in Ireland last year and the least likely to get sent to jail.

Leitrim 0-25 Louth 1-12

The offices of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection in Carrick on Shannon, Co Leitrim are closed today - because of an oil spill.

Leitrim 0-10 Roscommon 0-24

Roscommon 0-23, Leitrim 0-10: Twelve Roscommon players scored from play and substitute Cathal Cregg landed four late on as Kevin McStay’s troops recorded their third championship win over Leitrim in as many seasons to reach a third Connacht final in a row.

Long before he went into politics, John O’Mahony knew every highway and byway throughout Connacht, initially as a player but predominantly as a manager over the past 30 years.

There are five changes to the Roscommon team for Saturday’s Connacht SFC semi-final from the side which achieved Division 2 league glory last month.

Jamie Clarke says he has no plans to return and resume his Armagh career and that he sees his immediate future in New York.

New York goalkeeper Vinny Cadden said that the pain of their late loss to Leitrim in the Connacht SFC on Sunday will continue long into the winter.

Experienced Leitrim attacker Emlyn Mulligan insists it was more important for them than New York to win Sunday’s gripping Connacht SFC tie.

Defender Noel Plunkett told a Leitrim team meeting at the weekend that they needed to show composure against New York and always make sure they got the ball to a key forward rather than shooting wildly for scores — but then he popped up and landed the decisive score in the in the dying seconds having never kicked a winning score in his life!

New York’s wait for a first Connacht championship win continues as Leitrim kicked the last four points and Noel Plunkett landed the winner deep into the second period of extra-time at Gaelic Park.

Almost 5% of the population of Leitrim has travelled to the Big Apple to cheer them on as they try to avoid becoming the first county to lose a Connacht SFC game to New York.

The Leitrim footballers will always fear losing to New York, selector Seamus Quinn has admitted.

Zak Moradi may have been the first Iranian Kurd to play in Croke Park but the Leitrim hurler is convinced that he won’t be the last.

Land in east Cork has been selling very well of late, and it’s no surprise, writes Conor Power.

A young farmer from Leitrim had a scratch card sitting in his car for four days before he scratched it and realised he had won €50,000.

A county councillor in Leitrim has refused to apologise for repeatedly using the n-word at a local meeting this week.

“I never thought we would sell another major winning ticket so soon.”

A motorcyclist has been killed in a crash in Leitrim today.

Sligo 3-12 Leitrim 3-7: Five unanswered points in the last 10 minutes set up Sligo’s five-point defeat of plucky neighbours Leitrim in an eventually enthralling Connacht MFC semi-final at Markievicz Park.

GAA fans are in for a treat today with crunch games in all four provinces but the clash most eagerly anticipated by neutrals is undoubtedly the Munster SHC semi-final between old rivals and neighbours, Waterford and Cork.

Emlyn Mulligan has been ruled out for a number of months.

Update: The body of Declan Whyte was recovered on March 15 in the Carrick-on-Shannon area.