Deferred by 24 hours due to poor weather conditions, Clare were not deterred by the delay, with attackers Mark McInerney and Shane Meehan on song for the Banner.

He is also charged with robbing the man of several items, including two mobile phones and a passport, and of demanding £50,000 (€59,285) with menaces from the man.

Solicitor for the accused, Mr Patsy Gallagher, said his client had intended to help the boy's mother as he was misbehaving in the shop.

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Turns out the old adage is true.

It was a lifetime of work, packed into four ferocious hours, and at the end of it Brendan Boyce had his just reward. Sixth in the world in the 50km race walk, an event that seems to encapsulate his very existence.

Cratloe. Indefatigable Cratloe, whether it’s with the big ball or small, they just keep rolling along from week to week and match to match in pursuit of county senior titles.

With temperatures only ever hitting a low of 29.5C during the four-hour slog, the Donegal walker was never lower than 19th as a field of 46 produced 28 finishers – 14 of whom were forced to drop out during the longest event in the programme.

Two goals in the space of four minutes at the end of the first half saw Derry City move into prime position for a top three finish and Europa League football next season.

The perfect spot on the sand goes best with the perfect plot in the hand. Marjorie Brennan selects the best summer fiction to put in your suitcase.

The Brigade on RTÉ tomorrow gives people a glimpse of what life was like for fighters in the War of Independence, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

Cratloe 1-14 Kilmaley 0-16

Michael O'Neill's side continued to struggle in front of goal as they failed to make 67% possession count until Will Grigg's stoppage-time strike.

Brendan Boyce went through the pain barrier to finish 19th in the men’s 50k walk at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin – having been in a medal position at halfway – as Ireland’s three track representatives bowed out back at the Olympic Stadium.

A chief superintendent has told the non-jury Special Criminal Court he believes two men are members of the IRA.

No way of dressing it up, it’s been a poor championships so far for the Irish, meaning tomorrow’s race walks again represent the one remaining chance at a storybook ending.

Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill saw Liam Boyce go from last summer's odd man out to this June's headline act.

Liam Boyce scored his first Northern Ireland goal in the win over New Zealand to stake his claim for a starting berth in next week's World Cup qualifier in Azerbaijan.

A woman has lost her Supreme Court appeal against the overturning of a €493,000 damages award to her by a High Court jury after it found a relative sexually assaulted her when she was a child.

Dave Connell's charges suffered defeat in their opening UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship Elite Round fixture against Scotland, losing 2-1 courtesy of a ninety-fifth minute penalty.

“In the base of the bag there was four blocks of ...TNT and three electronic detonators in good condition strapped to the TNT.”

A Limerick man jailed for life for the murder of a 71-year-old retired soldier, whom he knew and whose fires he would light in his home, has moved to appeal his conviction.

A Limerick man jailed for life for the murder of a 71-year-old retired soldier, who he knew and whose fires he would light in his home, has moved to appeal his conviction.

Sixth — for many it’s a nothing position, not quite close enough to be considered unlucky, though not so far away that a medal was out of sight.

Police arrested and charged a man with murder over the fatal shootings of an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque over the weekend.

England 45 Ireland 21: Twenty-one points was enough to win each of the two previous World Rugby U20 Championship finals and only twice has a team scored more than that and lost, but you got the impression at the AJ Bell Stadium on Saturday evening that no matter what Ireland scored, England would nab more.

A retired Irish Bus manager received fatal injuries when he fell on the steps of a church in Spain when he went to check out Mass times.

A €493,000 award to a woman who claimed she was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a relative has been overturned by the Court of Appeal because of delay in bringing the action.

Northern Ireland head coach Michael O’Neill paid tribute to the team for buying into his philosophy after they sealed their place at next summer’s European Championship last night.

Robert Heffernan believes he is in with a “fighting chance” of defending his World 50km Race Walk title when he toes the line at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing next week.

A man charged with IRA membership has been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court.

The solicitor for a detained Afghan youth who was slashed across the face during Wednesday’s riot in Cloverhill Prison said his client is "deeply traumatised" by the experience.

Fifa vice-president Jim Boyce, from Northern Ireland, has urged football’s world governing body to conduct a full investigation into the “unprecedented and arbitrary payment” of $5m to the FAI, as a settlement after the infamous Thierry Henry handball incident in Paris in 2009.

A printer who had a €2m property judgment against him has avoided jail for production of 49 boxes of counterfeit €50 notes.

Fifa’s controversial choice of Qatar for the 2022 World Cup has sparked further uproar after a task force recommended playing the tournament in winter with the final being played close to Christmas.

Sligo IT 0-8 NUIG 0-8

A bishop has asked people not to use the name of Jesus Christ as a form of foul language.

Sepp Blatter’s challenger for the FIFA presidency Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan has been hailed as a “credible” candidate to run for the position.

A 30-year-old man shot his hedge fund founder father dead inside his New York apartment after the pair argued over the son’s allowance, police said.

The gunman who murdered two New York City police officers in their squad car had a long criminal record, a hatred of police and the government and an apparent history of mental instability that included a suicide attempt a year ago, it has emerged.

FIFA has been accused of overseeing a “new failure” after Michael Garcia, the man in charge of investigating the World Cup, quit his post.