Bray Wanderers’ players last night sought further reassurances of the financial future of the struggling club.

The ominous asterisk that shaped so many Airtricity League tables over recent years may yet make a comeback.

Bray Wanderers 0, Dundalk 3: Robbie Benson’s first half double inspired Dundalk to fourth straight Premier Division win.

Prosecutors yesterday dropped the charges against the bricklayer accused of murdering 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bomb.

Kanturk 0-12 Cill Na Martra 1-7: Kanturk held their nerve to defeat Cill na Martra in a tough and uncompromising Cork IFC quarter-final replay in Millstreet yesterday.

The troika shot down any prospect of Ireland burning the bondholders in late-2010 and warned such a move would cancel any possibility of a future bailout, a senior Government adviser during the crisis has confirmed.

Trevor Croly, the newly appointed manager of Bray Wanderers, insists the job is not a poisoned chalice but, rather, a “fantastic challenge”, despite the club’s currently embattled status on and off the pitch.

League of Ireland: With leaders Dundalk not in action until tomorrow, Cork City and Shamrock Rovers will both be hoping to make at least temporary inroads into the champions’ lead in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division tonight.

The trial of a man accused of murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing will go ahead, a prosecutor said.

A greenway with the potential to be one of the world’s “most iconic” walking and cycling routes hangs in the balance, a county council meeting was told yesterday.

Companies raised €265m on the Irish Stock Exchange through initial public offerings over the first three months of this year, compared with €415m over the last quarter of 2013, according to figures compiled by PwC.

An accountant who was found to have acted reprehensibly by misleading the Moriarty Tribunal to protect Michael Lowry has helped to secure a €650,000 judgment against the disgraced former minister.

The Irish Stock Exchange contributed €310m to the €3bn initial public offering (IPO) surge across the EU in the third quarter of this year.

LAST November on this page I compared independent TD (and former Fine Gael minister) Michael Lowry to Mario Balotelli, the petulant bad-boy of European football who once pulled up his shirt to reveal a t-shirt bearing the legend “why always me?”

For the second time in two years, disgraced former minister Michael Lowry is facing a legal battle with his key financial adviser.

A joint settlement by businessman Denis O’Brien and Independent TD Michael Lowry with land agent Kevin Phelan was considered two months before they struck separate deals with him, it has emerged.

THE significance of the newly published taped conversation involving Michael Lowry is that, in it, he flatly contradicts evidence he supplied to the Moriarty Tribunal.

Two republicans being sued by relatives of victims of the Omagh bomb have been challenged to break their silence and testify in court.

Finuge (Kerry) 2-9 Pallasgreen (Limerick) 1-9

The majority of voters in Cork city and county backed the referendum — but there were just 47 votes between the yes and no sides on Cork’s northside.

Having spent over 40 years in a lower grade Kanturk, last year’s JFC winners made a winning return to IFC ranks with a deserved win over Castletownbere at Ballingeary.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of a man attacked during the London riots.

LIMERICK will contest the Munster IHC final on July 6 against either Cork or Clare after beating Waterford in yesterday’s semi-final in Semple Stadium.

A FEW weeks ago we had the US president here, Barack Obama, and he left us with a new catch-cry — Is Féidir Linn.

ESAT founder Denis O’Brien has launched another stinging criticism of the Moriarty Tribunal.

CHAMPIONS Adare got off to a winning start in their bid for a four in-a-row in the Limerick senior hurling championship.

I WAS sickened by the arguments and “justifications” put forward by Padraig Cribben of the VFI and publican Benny McCabe (Letters, September 4).

POLICE risk losing public confidence if they do not change how they manage protests, the British police watchdog said yesterday.

Public-order tactics used by British police are “inadequate” and should be reviewed, a report into the G20 protests found today.

Some police actions during the G20 protests risked undermining the sacrifice of officers who have given their lives protecting the public, the police watchdog warned today.

British police faced new accusations of brutality against G20 protesters today.

LIMERICK bid to salvage something from a season that has gone horribly wrong when their intermediate hurlers clash with Tipperary in the Munster final at Thurles tonight.

The Workers’ Party has said it fully endorses the stand taken by fishermen today as they tie up their boats in protest against the cost of fuel, the size of the percentage they get from fish prices and a number of other grievances.

A photograph of one of five men accused of carrying out the Omagh bombing stuck out like a sore thumb in an identification album, it was claimed in court today.

TWO goals in the three minutes before half-time set Kilmallock on their way to a 3-16 to 2-16 win over Ahane in round one of the Limerick county senior hurling championship in Bruff yesterday.

IMPORTANT documents relating to five bank accounts linked to Bertie Ahern’s constituency organisation were destroyed sometime after 2001, it emerged during yesterday’s hearing of the Mahon Tribunal.

TWO teenagers who drowned in Dublin’s Grand Canal during a night out with friends were intoxicated with ecstasy and cocaine and had gone swimming to cool down, an inquest heard yesterday.

Marts: An outstanding heifer was judged overall champion at the Annual Fat Stock Show and Sale at Kanturk Mart before being sold for €2,550 to a local supermarket.

MICHAEL Lowry’s accountant, Denis O’Connor, flatly denied he knew anything when the Moriarty Tribunal queried him about a British property dispute in which he played a significant role, it emerged yesterday.

THE 76-year-old father of telecoms billionaire Denis O’Brien enlisted Michael Lowry’s accountant to get information from his own solicitor about an English property, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

MICHAEL LOWRY’S accountant told the Moriarty Tribunal yesterday the former Fine Gael cabinet minister had no involvement in the purchase of English Football League club Doncaster Rovers, acquired by family interests of telecoms magnate Denis O’Brien.