Sinéad Cahalan is one of the longer-serving Galway camogie players, having represented her county since minor, and winning an All-Ireland junior medal in 2003 as well as an intermediate medal a year later. 

The hugely popular Pierce Molony, owner and manager of Thurles racecourse, has died following a long illness.

Galway GAA is mourning the death of one of their longest serving officials with the passing of Central Council delegate Pat Egan.

Two sisters who were sexually abused by their older brother throughout their childhood spoke openly yesterday of how he had ruined their lives.

Travellers living in one of the country’s worst halting sites have invited politicians to spend a night there to experience first-hand the appalling conditions they have to endure.

Cork referee Cathal McAllister was a busy man last weekend.

Marchese Marconi provided Sarah O’Brien with her second success in the saddle when getting the better of odds-on favourite Pique Sous in the Gorey Race in Wexford last night.

Saturday afternoon, the heats of the girls U10 200m. Showtime for the Crossan family.

As always, Day Two of the Dublin Horse Show was a two-horse race between a string of elegant ladies on parade and their less-fancied four-legged counterparts.

Tonight Donoughmore bid for a 14th Senior A county title when they face Inch Rovers in the Tesco Homegrown Ladies SFC final at Páirc Uí Rinn (7.45pm).

The body of a man who had just murdered his ex-girlfriend was discovered by a family friend as she spoke to his disabled mother on the phone.

AN Effin woman has been forced to start an online campaign to get Facebook to accept the name of her native place after the social networking giant branded her homeplace’s name as ‘offensive.’

NOT even wind and rain could dampen spirits at the first civil marriage ceremony at Cork City Hall yesterday.

WEDDING bells will soon be ringing out in Cork’s City Hall after one lucky couple netted their dream big day in the “Win your Wedding” competition.

DUNBOYNE Express booked his ticket to the Irish 2,000 Guineas when landing yesterday’s Group 3 Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial.

The neighbour of the alleged victim in a murder trial told the Central Criminal Court that she heard wailing coming from the woman’s house on the morning she died.

FAMOUS, a full-sister to multiple Group 1 winner Mastercraftsman, earned a step into Group 3 company when scoring an all-the-way win in the opening Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-O Fillies Maiden at Leopardstown last night.

The brother-in-law of two brothers, whose street fight ended with one fatally stabbing the other, has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that he is a "spokesman for the dead".

Irish women Tara Delaney and Danielle McVeigh enjoyed mixed fortunes in Texas this week as they battled the Lone Star State’s infamous winds at the Texas A&M ‘Mo’morial’ tournament.

THE fateful knock finally came at 3.45pm.

Dublin electrical contractor Brian Kearney strangled his wife Siobhan with a vacuum cleaner flex and staged the scene to look like suicide, it was claimed in court today

An anonymous businessman today pledged €100,000 to send a schoolgirl to the UK for life-saving surgery.

THE long awaited clash of David McCarthy (St. Augustine’s, Dungarvan) and John Coghlan (Castleknock) in the senior boys’ 1,500m failed to live up to expectations at the KitKat Irish Schools track and field championships at Tullamore on Saturday.

THE State’s refusal to pay out compensation to the family of a Dublin teenager killed while travelling on the floor of a car driven by an uninsured motorist is to be examined by Europe’s highest court.

amarinskaya upstaged her better-fancied stable companion Beauty Bright to take the Dimitrova 1,000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown.

THE FAMILY of murder victim Siobhan Kearney made an impassioned plea yesterday for her killer to be caught.

A FAMILY got a New Year wish a day in advance as a little Irish baby arrived home from a London hospital after a life-saving operation that also made history.

LUAS LINE booked her ticket to America for the Garden State Breeders Cup next month when scoring a smooth success in the featured Denny Cordell Lavarack Memorial Fillies Stakes at Gowran Park yesterday.

AMY FOSTER, silver medallist at the European Youth Olympics a few weeks ago, revelled in the sunshine at Tullamore on Saturday when she won a gold medal in the 100m, took silver in the 200m before anchoring the Irish schools to silver in the 4x100m relay at the international track and field match between Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.

David Wachman’s star filly Damson strengthened her position at the head of the betting for next season’s 1000 Guineas with a workmanlike victory over the colts in the Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh today.

Ex-invalid Solskjaer put up a brave performance to narrowly take the Royal Whip Stakes from the well-backed favourite Tropical Lady at the Curragh today.

Fifteen-year-old Ann Marie Middleton, who was missing from Carlow home since last Friday, has been located safe and well.

Gardaí are appealing for 37-year-old Ann Marie Hamilton from Belfast to contact home for an urgent message.

Gardai at Mayorstone, Limerick are seeking the public's assistance in locating the whereabouts of 15-year-old Ann Marie Sherlock.

Police in the North have named the 12-year-old girl who died in a house fire in Co Antrim yesterday as Ann Marie O’Boyle, from Toomebridge.

Rose West is to drop the appeal against her conviction for her part in the House of Horror murders.