THE late Dermot Earley’s family were honoured at the GAA’s president’s awards last night with the creation of a new category, named after the former Roscommon footballer, which they won.

DELEGATES were in no real mood to embrace changes in the playing rules experimented in the subsidiary competitions and the league in the early motions debated at last night’s opening session of the GAA Congress in Newcastle, Co. Down.

A MASSIVE manhunt is underway for the serial killer thought to be responsible for the “unprecedented” murders of five prostitutes.

FEARS were growing last night that two ten-year-old British girls missing since Sunday have been abducted.