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

It was the most incredible two weeks in London.

Eilish Byrne’s spirits were high yesterday afternoon after placing seventh of 23 riders on the first day of the London Paralympics.

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.

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 Irish Hockey Association yesterday gave the green light to controversial plans to centralise the women’s senior hockey team in Dublin for 10 months.

IRISH cyclists can win medals at the London 2012 Olympics but Cycling Ireland is facing an uphill battle due to a lack of training facilities, limited financial resources and the carding scheme which funds its high performance athletes, according to High Performance Director, Dr Phil Leigh.

DAVE PASSMORE yesterday stepped down as the Irish senior men’s hockey coach but will take on the full-time role of high performance director, as part of the Irish Hockey Association’s (IHA) decision to split the roles.

MOTORSPORT Ireland have stepped up their involvement in Rally Ireland and will actually promote the 2009 event that will kick start the World Rally Championship in late January. However, funding for the event has yet to be put in place.

The FIA World Motorsport Council in Monaco has voted to award Ireland a round of the World Rally Championship (WRC) once again in 2009.