Queens University Belfast have confirmed they will contest their expulsion from the Sigerson Cup.

IT Sligo have been thrown out of the Sigerson Cup, for fielding an ineligible player against Queens University, while QUB have not been reinstated after it also emerged that they fielded ineligible players.

Significant weaknesses in a £1.7m (€2.18m) government project to teach the Ulster-Scots language in Northern Ireland undermined its chances of long-term success, an official review found today.

DAN KENNY was deservedly awarded the man of the match for his outstanding display in an entertaining game played at the University of Ulster Jordonstown last night.

FOR the first time since partition, the prospect of a Catholic majority in Northern Ireland is fast becoming a reality, according to the latest census figures.