Kildare legend Johnny Doyle has challenged the county’s big players to seize the responsibility and take the fight to provincial heavyweights Dublin.

Bill Cosby’s top legal adviser has said he never would have let the comedian testify in a 2005 lawsuit if he thought Cosby could still face sexual assault charges in the matter.

Leonardo da Vinci overcame huge difficulties to become the ultimate Renaissance Man, writes Mark Evans.

A 22-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of a Brazilian man in a bog in north Kerry in 2012.

It’s a dream come true.

The three O'Driscoll brothers - who died in Co Cork last week - have been described as lovable and full of fun.

Brazil’s president has broken her silence after more than a week of massive, violent protests rocked the country.

A murder trial witness told of receiving photographs sent from a mobile phone showing the victim with blood on his head and his hands tied.

A woman whose former partner and brother are accused of murdering a 28-year-old Brazilian man told a court yesterday the victim had said she had “a sexy voice and was probably hot’’.

Sunday’s FAI Ford Cup final pairs an interesting battle of family fortunes with first cousins Simon Madden and Conor Kenna going head-to-head in one of the most exciting final match -ups in years.

Photographers crowded round today as the curtain was pulled back to present what is claimed to be an early version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

The world’s top farm producers in the G20 countries must agree coordinated action to ease worries about food prices, the head of the UN’s food agency said yesterday, as he and other experts bemoaned a huge global waste of food and water.

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The father of a Dublin man killed more than six years ago held his dying son in his arms just moments after he had been shot in the back with a shotgun, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

It’s just as well Cork didn’t win this one — for Conor Counihan would have been at a loss to justify it.

Two men were charged at Newcastle West District Court in Co Limerick yesterday with the murder of a Brazilian man whose body was found in a bog in North Kerry on Sunday.

I MET a group of Tyrone supporters parked up on Iona Road on my way into the double header in Croke Park last Sunday.

THE imposing Mossey Joe lit up Cork last night with a flawless display to land the Dromahane Chase.

Liam Mackey pays a personal tribute to the transformative magic of Europe’s premier club competition.

OUT of action with a broken collar-bone since March 26, Paul Townend returned in style when registering a double on odds-on favourites Rattan and Killultagh Queen at Ballinrobe last night where trainer Willie Mullins went on to complete a treble with Bless N’ject in the bumper.

Lindsay Lohan’s lawyers will not receive a surveillance video allegedly showing her stealing a necklace until next week.

WORLD CHAMPIONS Aidan Murphy and Eamon Bowen Jnr shared the limelight at the weekend, winning their opening rounds of the Pat Barry Cup and the Mick Crowley Cup respectively.

Prosecutors have a “strong case” to support filing criminal charges against Mel Gibson for allegedly hitting Oksana Grigorieva.

‘JUST One Day To Change Your Life’ screamed the poster. For just €125 and six and a half hours of your time, Apprentice star Bill Cullen would let you in on all the tips needed to achieve all your goals and make loads of cash.

A public prosecutor in the US state of Wisconsin "sex texted" a victim of domestic abuse while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend for assault.

CONTRARY to recent reports, not every Dublin footballer had a problem with spending the night in the Regency Hotel before their Leinster quarter-final against Wexford a fortnight or so ago.

KEITH FAHEY is way too accomplished a media operator to say he was frustrated by the absence of an international call-up but Stephen Carr had no reason to hold back when the nod finally arrived late last month.

Brazil’s president said he plans to provide funding for the construction of an additional one million homes that will be owned by the poor in Latin America’s largest nation.

Brazil’s president said “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation.

AND so the last Sunday in September is almost upon us and there’s just a nerve-tingling 24 hours to go to one of the biggest events in the sporting calendar, as two ancient rivals and neighbours prepare to renew battle in the presence of a massive crowd and with millions more tuning in on television all over the world.

WILLIE MULLINS recorded his 18th bumper victory since November 1 when Alexander Seaview made a successful debut in the finale at Fairyhouse yesterday.

President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Brian Cowen have paid tribute to playwright and self-styled curmudgeon Hugh Leonard.

TYRONE trainer Lee Smyth, who only took out a licence on March 1, enjoyed his first success when Tipper Road won the September Handicap at Clonmel last night.

Detectives who discovered the dismembered corpse of a British teenager in a suitcase in Brazil were today searching for her remaining body parts.

A man was charged with murder today after the dismembered body of his British girlfriend was found in a suitcase in central Brazil, police said.

AID workers are getting less and less access to those in need in the war-torn Darfur region even as 50,000 people fled their homes amid a government offensive this month, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Sudan has warned.

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead by police on the London Underground last summer, said today that the decision not to charge any individual police officers over his death was “unbelievable”.

THE stars of The Da Vinci Code put on brave smiles as they graced the red carpet last night hours after the year’s most eagerly-awaited movie received stinging reviews.

THE stars of movie blockbuster The Da Vinci Code began their worldwide promotional blitz yesterday with a trip on the Eurostar.

Author Dan Brown has been accused of plagiarism in The Da Vinci Code just days after he was cleared in London's High Court of similar allegations.

WHILE in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum.

THE ALGARVE in Portugal has won the golf tourism industry's most prestigious award, being voted the Established Golf Destination of the Year by IAGTO's specialist golf tour operators.