Ulster Rugby chiefs have fined Coleraine RFC £5,000 following ‘sustained, vile, sexist abuse’ towards a female rugby referee in March.

Ulster Bank has announced plans to close 11 branches in Northern Ireland in a move that will see 40 jobs lost.

Tyrone Gaelic football star Cathal McCarron has appeared in court charged in connection with a public order incident on a Dublin street.

The Munster Junior team took another big step towards the Junior Interprovincial Championship title with an 11-10 win over reigning champions Ulster at Clonakilty.

The All-Ireland Junior Cup kicks off this weekend, with three of the four Munster participants in action.

A decision is expected tomorrow evening on the future of Tyrone manager Mickey Harte.

Tyrone defender Ronan McNabb has described Monaghan manager Malachy O’Rourke’s tactical strategy as ‘perfect’.

Stephen O’Brien replaces Johnny Buckley in the only change to the Kerry side for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final with Kildare in Croke Park (2pm).

An outpouring of condolences followed the news yesterday of the death of Derry and Ballinderry footballer Aaron Devlin.

It’s not just Unionists who have a deep-rooted pride in their northern identity. Ulster Gaels also possess a loyalty to their province which simply doesn’t exist in the other green fields.

Hockey: Cork Harlequins will aim to stay in the hunt for a wide open women’s Irish Senior Cup when they welcome Pegasus to Farmer’s Cross tomorrow (1.30pm).

DROMORE WOOD LOOP, COUNTY CLARE

Carrickmore qualified for a second successive Tyrone SFC final with a 2-7 to 0-11 win over Ardboe at Pomeroy last night.

Treble All-Ireland winner Ryan McMenamin says Tyrone can no longer be considered a top tier footballing force.

Location: Dromore, Bantry €1.25 million

Tyrone champions Errigal Ciarán made it through to the Hunky Dorys SFC second round at the second attempt, defeating Dromore 1-13 to 1-9 in a thrilling replay at Dromore.

Veteran Tyrone defender Ryan McMenamin has announced his retirement from inter-county football, having informed manager Mickey Harte of his decision on Monday night.

Errigal Ciaran 0-13 Dromore 0-8

There were new Club Senior Football champions crowned in a number of counties today, with Errigal Ciaran ending their six-year wait for another Tyrone title.

Errigal Ciaran reached their first Tyrone SFC final in six years with a 1-7 to 0-9 beat Carrickmore at Plunkett Park, but champions Dromore are facing a semi-final replay with outsiders Killyclogher.

Vedfield Emperor produced a much-improved and top-class performance when winning the first semi-final of the valuable Greyhound & Pet World A1 525 at Curraheen Park on Saturday night.

Tyrone champions Dromore made it safely through to the Power NI SFC quarter-finals with a 2-9 to 1-9 victory over Eglish at Carrickmore last night.

It could be described as Downton Abbey Irish-style — a glimpse of life in those great houses in wooded estates behind high stone walls.

Alan Quirke is back between the posts for Cork who take on Down in this weekend’s Allianz Football League, at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday.

Last Friday night on The Late Late Show, Eamon Dunphy was asked his opinion on the scenes witnessed at the Dromid Pearses v Derrytresk game.

THE violent scenes involving Tyrone club Derrytresk in Sunday’s All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final in Portlaoise is the latest disciplinary controversy to hit GAA in the Red Hand county over the last 12 months.

TYRONE County Board chairman Ciaran McLaughlin will meet his new Competitions Control Committee (CCC) to ensure they tackle growing discipline problems head on.

TYRONE star Seán Cavanagh believes the GAA must do more to deal with ill discipline in their games.

WHEN a GAA president expresses his confidence clubs will identify their troublemakers you know he’s not putting his hand out to be slapped.

THE Tyrone County Board’s Central Competition Committee (CCC) have dished out heavy punishments to Carrickmore and Dromore for the brawl which marred their Division One league final.

Tyrone disciplinary chiefs have issued a number of bans and fines over the ugly scenes which marred the county's recent O'Neills Division 1 ACL final between Carrickmore and Dromore.

ANOTHER potential embarrassment in the ugly controversy dividing Donegal GAA has been averted by Kevin Cassidy’s absence from a Sligo IT Sigerson Cup reunion on Saturday.

TYRONE legend Peter Canavan was last night named Fermanagh’s new senior football manager on a three-year term.

A CARRICKMORE GAA fan was forced to undergo surgery to reattach part of his ear following the row that marred the Tyrone football league final.

THE Competitions Control Committee of the Tyrone County Board is to meet tonight to study the referee’s report and view the video of last weekend’s Division Oneleague final, which ended inviolence.

DISCIPLINARY officials in Tyrone have moved quickly to get to the bottom of the violent scenes which marred last Sunday’s Division One league final.

DROMORE manager Paul McIver has hit out at match scheduling which left his side with just a week to prepare for last Sunday’s Ulster Club SFC tie against Ballinderry.

A GOAL inside the opening minute was the crucial score as Ballinderry held off Dromore challenge to set up a semi-final clash with Crossmaglen.

DROMORE goalkeeper Peter Ward believes Ballinderry would have won a handful of All-Ireland titles in the past 15 years had their golden era not coincided with the reign of the country’s greatest club, Crossmaglen.

PETER CANAVAN has stepped down as Errigal Ciarán manager after three years in the job.

DROMORE claimed their third