Roscommon finished their Super 8s campaign on a positive note with this three-point win over Cork.

Tyrone struck an early and perhaps decisive blow in their Super 8s opener at Hyde Park, where they scored a four-point win over Connacht champions Roscommon.

The family of murdered prison officer Brian Stack will meet with Garda Commissioner Drew Harris later to get answers over his killing.

Roscommon manager Kevin McStay has made two changes for their Super 8s match against Tyrone on Saturday evening.

This is a huge step forward for Shane and for Galway’s chances in the Super 8s, writes John Divilly.

Leitrim 0-10 Roscommon 0-24

When a fiction-based resolution of a crisis starts to unravel it is not always easy to pinpoint the moment progress reverts to tribal retrenchment.

Any of us who get through this life without being, at one stage or another, susceptible to a charge of hypocrisy is indeed one of a sainted minority.

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has launched a blistering attack on what she called the “utterly repulsive” media in the Republic over the treatment of the late Martin McGuinness during the 2011 presidential election.

Sinn Féin has suspended a senator for three months after what the party described as “unacceptable Twitter activity” over a murdered prison officer.

Latest: The leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin, says it's clear that any hope the new Sinn Féin leadership would herald the dawn of a new era has now disappeared.

Waterford manager Tom McGlinchey has received an eight-week sideline ban after he chose not to contest the proposed suspension last night.

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A new forum is looking into whether TDs should be curtailed in what they are allowed to say in the Dáil.

Stephen Rochford and his team got everything right yesterday. It was my first time witnessing Mayo get all their tactics and tactical battles correct, writes John Divilly.

After watching Kerry slowly grind out an all too familiar workmanlike quarter-final victory over Galway in the opening game, there was a sense around Croke Park going into the afternoon’s second game that Mayo would do likewise.

Leitrim couldn’t live with the tempo of the Rossies.

Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell has been cleared of allegedly breaching Dáil rules on the use of privilege over comments he made regarding two Sinn Féin TDs.

I have a sense this may be Gerry Adams’ last Christmas as leader of Sinn Féin, but only because he chooses it to be, writes Gerard Howlin.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams may refuse to help other families of Troubles murder victims due to the fallout from his role in the Brian Stack controversy.

Health Minister Simon Harris has urged Gerry Adams, and all of his associates, to make available any information regarding the killing of prison officer Brian Stack in 1983.

It was officially just a touch of bronchitis, but given the context of recent days, one could be forgiven for viewing it as a sign of things to come.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has come under further political pressure about what he may know about who who carried out the 1983 IRA murder of prison officer Brian Stack.

A man who alleges to have been raped by an IRA member says Gerry Adams is lying about the murder of Brian Stack.

A Junior Minister says the Brian Stack murder allegations are some of the most serious to have ever been made against politicians in the State.

INDEPENDENT TD Maureen O’Sullivan has sought to defend a courtroom testimonial she wrote on behalf of a man convicted of IRA membership.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is facing pressure to give gardaí the name of a senior IRA figure who knows the identity of the killers of murdered prison officer Brian Stack.

Two sitting Sinn Féin TDs have sensationally stated in the Dáil they were not involved in the 1983 killing of prison officer Brian Stack.

The Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is to make a statement in the Dáil about his knowledge of the investigations into the murder of Brian Stack.

The son of a man killed by the IRA says his family has been subjected to a "pattern of untruthful deception".

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has become embroiled in a damaging row with the son of provisional IRA victim Brian Stack after insisting he received the names of four people involved in his murder from the grieving family.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has called on Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams to clarify who gave him the names of four senior provisional IRA members who may have been involved in the 1983 murder of prison officer Brian Stack.

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