Carlow will field a team that includes three Championship debutants when they take on Louth in Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final in Portlaoise (throw-in 3.30pm).

THE first edition of the then Cork Examiner was published 170 years ago this August.

HUNDREDS of people from all walks of life turned up to pay their last respects yesterday to a man who was the longest serving newspaper editor in the country.

The Green Party is on course to gain a seat in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency in the forthcoming general election.

Carlow full-back Mark Brennan has failed in his bid to have a four-week suspension quashed by the GAA's Central Disciplinary Committee.