The Cork senior hurling management have made a number of alterations to their squad for the forthcoming championship.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice believes a win over Mayo tomorrow would throw his side right back into contention for the Allianz Football League Division 1 title.

Derry 1-17 St Mary’s 0-14

An IRA bombing atrocity that killed nine people 40 years ago today in the village of Claudy in the North was appalling and indefensible, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has said.

The North's new police ombudsman today pledged operational independence in a bid restore community backing.

First Minister Peter Robinson's DUP has today accused the North's Boundary Commission of gerrymandering in a fierce attack on its proposals to reduce the number of Westminster seats to 16.

I COMMEND the letter by Fergus O’Leary headlined ‘Claudy: a grave injustice by people at the top’ (September 7).

The North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness confirmed today that he is prepared to meet the victims of the Claudy bombing.

THE North’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has been challenged to meet the victims of the Claudy bombing after revealing he met the chief suspect in the attack.

WHILE I agree very much with your editorial (August 25) on Al Hutchinson’s report on the collusion to protect Fr Jim Chesney from proper investigation by the RUC, I was surprised at the mildness of tone.

NORTHERN Ireland secretary Owen Paterson said the British Government was “profoundly sorry” that the victims of the 1972 Claudy bombing and their families had been denied justice.

OUTRAGED relatives of a notorious IRA bombing which claimed nine lives demanded a fresh investigation after it emerged the police, Government and Catholic Church conspired to protect the prime suspect, a Catholic priest.

Outraged relatives of a notorious IRA bombing which claimed nine lives demanded a fresh investigation today after it emerged the police, British government and Catholic Church conspired to protect the prime suspect, a Catholic priest.

SO has justice finally been delivered? Years late and at great financial cost, the Bloody Sunday inquiry has finally reported.

Several wives got dropped and more got a soaking when the first UK and Ireland Wife Carrying Championships were held today.

The death of a six-year-old twin boy on a family holiday in Portugal sent shockwaves through his local community today.

The SDLP could see its majorities in three Westminster constituencies cut under Boundary Commission recommendations proposed today.

Paddy Crozier has named an experienced side for his first competitive outing as Derry senior football manager against Monaghan on Sunday.

The PSNI has defended the arrest of a Sinn Féin Assemblyman in connection with an IRA bomb attack in the Co Derry village of Claudy more than 33 years ago.

A Sinn Féin Assembly member was among four people being questioned today about an IRA atrocity which claimed the lives of nine people 33 years ago.

Three men and a woman were arrested today by police investigating an IRA bomb atrocity more than 30 years ago in which nine people were killed.

New Derry senior football manager Paddy Crozier has confirmed his panel for the opening months of the 2006 season.

2004 All-star Enda Muldoon will start for Derry in Sunday's All-Ireland SFC third round qualifier against Limerick.

A 21-year-old man was charged with attempted murder today following a rail crash in which a car was allegedly abandoned deliberately on the track.

A Sinn Féin mayor today backed calls for a public inquiry into one of the worst IRA atrocities during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Pressure is mounting on authorities in the North to launch a full inquiry into claims that the British government and the Catholic Church colluded in covering up the involvement of a priest in the 1972 Claudy bombing.

The father of a nine-year-old girl killed in the Claudy bombing today called on former Prime Minister Edward Heath and his Defence Secretary Lord Carrington to say what they knew about the atrocity.

The ArchBishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland, Dr Dean Brady, has expressed his personal distress, grief and shame at the possible involvement of a priest, either directly or indirectly, in the Claudy bombing.

A NEW inquiry is to be launched into the Claudy massacre following fresh claims that a Catholic priest planned the bomb attack in July 1972.

Tony Blair is facing demands to investigate claims a top policeman helped shield a Catholic priest accused of being behind one of the IRA’s worst atrocities.

The husband of a woman killed in an IRA bomb has branded ‘‘offensive’’ a weekend commemoration in Dublin of republicans killed during the Troubles.