There were 177 people found sleeping on the streets of Dublin by a homeless charity on Thursday night.

Tyrone 2-11 Down 3-8

Two Ghanaian men took their first vows yesterday in a multicultural religious ceremony in Kerry yesterday.

Brother Philip Ryan has admitted he stepped down as Waterford selector after realising players wanted a change in coaching.

The conversation with Noel Connors of Waterford took an odd turn early on.

APPOINTED as I am as a chaplain in a Catholic secondary school, I have been assigned to care for our pupils’ spiritual and moral well-being to the best of my ability, and so I feel it is my duty to respond to Colette Browne’s venting of spleen in favour of abortion (Opinion, Dec 14).

THE line of people looking for food parcels at the Capuchin Centre in Dublin city centre is getting longer, not shorter, more than two years after photographs of the queues made the front pages.

The disgusted family and friends of those wanted in connection with riots and looting are turning in suspects to face justice, according to police in Britain.

Donegal 1-12 Kildare 0-14 (aet)

The Northern Ireland Assembly is braced for a tense stand-off after the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) declared it will use a crunch vote today to reject the deal brokered to stabilise the power-sharing government.

RELIGIOUS orders that ran children’s institutions where abuses took place will not be asked to contribute more to the state compensation fund despite the likelihood that the cost of victims’ claims will increase.

The controversy over Sarah Palin and her selection as Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's running mate is a "faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee" for vice president, his campaign said today.

THE historic hand-over of more than 130 schools run by the Christian Brothers is in progress and could be formally completed within two years.

YOUNG men can become suicidal if they fail to live up to macho male stereotypes typified in sports such as rugby, a monk at a top college warned yesterday.

THE onus is on Thierry Henry to out-shoot Manchester United marksman Ruud van Nistelrooy as Arsenal face up to being without both Patrick Vieira and Sol Campbell for the Barclaycard Premiership run-in.