Teachers have called for a national audit of all schools to ensure they are fire safe and meet all health and safety standards.

There is a residue from the not-too-distant past when up to a third of the Clontarf first team were from the south, mostly from Cork Constitution. The club was once affectionately known as “Contarf.”

Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly has been ordered to complete an anger-management course before he is sentenced for an unprovoked attack on a man in a pub.

Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly has paid €5,000 to charities nominated by a man whose eye socket he fractured during an unprovoked attack in a pub.

Dublin Gaelic football star Diarmuid Connolly has unreservedly apology to a man who suffered a fractured eye socket during an unprovoked attack in a pub.

Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly will be sentenced next month for breaking a man’s eye socket during an unprovoked attack in a pub last August.

Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly is to be sentenced next month for breaking a man's eye socket during an unprovoked attack in a pub last August.

United Left Alliance TD Clare Daly has admitted she was stopped by gardaí and breathalysed last night.

Paul Flynn has hit out at DCU’s detractors and said his fellow student and 2012 All Star Aidan Walsh should be allowed to line out for the university.

Ballymun Kickhams 0-11 Portlaoise 0-8

Raheny United 2 Peamount United 1

North Dublin's water supply is said to be safe to drink and cook with once again.

Barry O’Mahony, the one-time Ireland Schools and Dolphin wing-forward, was one of five former Munster players to take a leading role as Clontarf pulled off a hugely important victory over Young Munster in the Ulster Bank League at Clifford Park on Saturday.

IRELAND’S rugby league international with France at Thomond Park this afternoon (5pm) hasn’t been setting the sporting world alight in terms of hype and publicity.

Ireland will make history tomorrow when they host France in the first rugby league match to be held at the rugby union stronghold of Thomond Park in Limerick.

THERE was a shock result in yesterday’s SFAI Umbro Kennedy Cup final when the North Dublin Schoolboys League halted the DDSL’s eight-in-row ambitions by claiming their first title since 1995.

Nicky Rackard Cup

Fingal 7-15 Tyrone 0-7

Donegal 0-9 Wicklow 3-16, Roscommon 1-17 Fingal 0-10, Tyrone 0-9 Louth 0-18

THE club match of the day will be at Temple Hill this afternoon (2.30) when Shannon take on arch rivals Constitution in a top-of-the-table AIB League clash.

CLONTARF’S flirtation with AIB League glory has been consigned to failure in recent years; five semi-finals and two final appearances being just the sum total of the club’s success.

JEREMY MANNING’S late penalty helped Cork Constitution record their fifth consecutive win in Division One of the AIB League after an 18-16 victory away to Ballymena.

The club football championships in Munster and Leinster moved nearer the final stages after today's action in both provinces.

Clontarf 15 Garryowen 28

Merry Monk Ballina have booked their place in tomorrow’s SuperLeague semi-final after a closely run contest with National Cup Champions Abrakebabra Tigers at the UL Sports Arena this afternoon.

Dolphin 14 Garryowen 34

TWENTY ONE-year-old Connor Doran performed the necessary heroics over the closing holes to play the lead part in yesterday’s Bulmer’s Barton Shield victory for Banbridge over Stackstown at Lisburn.

SHAMROCK ROVERS could play their last three Premier Division games of the season in November at their new Tallaght stadium after top businessman Ben Dunne yesterday invested a staggering €2m in the Dublin club.

CORINTHIANS have narrowed the gap to one point on Division Three AIB League leaders Waterpark.

A man has died after a serious beating North Dublin's Portmarnock.

A fine second half display by Clontarf propelled the North Dublin back into the top four with Ben Gissings 78th minute try proving crucial in this lively affair played at Castle Avenue this afternoon.