More than twice as many Catholics as Protestants have been appointed to the board of Sport Northern Ireland, it was claimed tonight.

Lisa Kearney is set to be confirmed as Ireland's first ever Olympic women's judo competitor, despite being beaten in the European Championships in Russia today.

This is the story of a Celtic footballer who jumped out of the Glasgow goldfish bowl, got two tickets to see Riverdance in Kerry, and ended up in Belfast.

TYRONE’S thriving fund-raising organisation has bucked recessionary trends by pulling in £354,000 (€423,883) in voluntary donations in 2011.

RORY McILROY was named BBC Northern Ireland’s Sports Personality of the Year for 2011 last night.

Laws to improve spectator behaviour at major sporting events in the North come into force today.

An investigation into grants awarded to the Ulster Camogie Council should have been treated as a fraud probe, according to yesterday’s report to the Northern Ireland Assembly by the NI comptroller and auditor-general, Kieran Donnelly.

AN investigation into grants awarded to the Ulster Camogie Council should have been treated as a fraud probe, according to yesterday’s report to the Northern Ireland Assembly by the NI comptroller and auditor-general, Kieran Donnelly.

The Gaelic Athletic Association today pledged to co-operate with a review of the North's government funding to clubs named after dead paramilitaries.

Funding at GAA clubs in the North could be withdrawn if they adopt the names of dead paramilitaries, it emerged today.

Bids for £50m (€55.6m) to build pre-Olympic training facilities in the North were rejected because they were submitted three minutes late, it emerged today.

The continuing failure of the North's football governing body to reform its internal structures is depriving local clubs of a £4m (€4.78m) British government cash boost, a Stormont committee heard today.