The 2018 UCI Road World Championships got underway yesterday in Innsbruck, Austria with three Irish riders in action on day one.

The divisiveness of Trump’s America First policy and the centenary of parliamentary voting rights for some women featured in the first Leaving Certificate politics and society exams.

Darren Lehmann will leave his post as Australia's head coach after the fourth Test against South Africa, which begins on Friday.

Craig Gillespie brought a touch of humour to his fantastic film about scandal-tinged skater Tonya Harding, writes Esther McCarthy

The 2018 GAA season has begun in earnest. One of the key talking points is whether Galway will retain their All-Ireland hurling title, writes Jack Anderson.

As the Cork Jazz Festival turns 40, Richard Fitzpatrick asked a few familiar faces to share their fondest memories of the famous festival. 

The Policing Authority has expressed serious concern at the sharp drop in the detection by gardaí of sexual crimes and the rise this year in recorded assaults.

Vital cross-border sharing of policing expertise is going to become extremely difficult post-Brexit, former PSNI chief Judith Gillespie has warned.

Valentia Island’s telecommunications history is “of outstanding universal value” and it should be inscribed as a Unesco world heritage site, 200 delegates at a convention will hear this weekend.

A lecturer who claimed he was defamed in a letter sent by his college authorities to around 100 students has settled his High Court action.

The City in Darkness begins not in the city or even in darkness, but with an early morning swim in Co Wicklow lake. 

University of Limerick 3-19 Maynooth University 4-15 (AET): The footballers of UL used all nine lives and their get-out-of-jail card to sneak past Maynooth in this thrilling Sigerson Cup first round tie.

UL scored a dramatic victory in this hugely entertaining Sigerson Cup first round tie having twice looked down and out.

Kevin Ryan believes conditions are likely to favour The Grey Gatsby in the Qipco Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on September 10.

A 74-year-old man from Scotland has been charged with withholding information in relation to the murder of IRA spy Denis Donaldson.

In the gathering gloom last Saturday night, small groups of Donegal and Monaghan players congregated in the car park outside Kingspan Breffni Park to shoot the breeze. If Cavan town wasn’t such a traffic logjam, they may have gone separate ways earlier. Yet they seemed pleased to have the chance to chat.

Josephine Feehily marked our cards from the outset.

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Celtic 8 Hamilton 1: Striker Leigh Griffiths helped himself to a hat-trick as Celtic thrashed hapless Hamilton 8-1 at Parkhead to go six points clear of Aberdeen at the top of the Ladbrokes Premiership last night.

Navan O’Mahonys 0-13 Na Fianna 1-8: This Meath SFC decider was anything but a Halloween cracker — more a damp squib — but there were some fireworks in the closing minutes before champions O’Mahonys retained their crown.

An ex-Anglo Irish Bank official jailed for conspiring to conceal bank accounts from the Revenue Commissioners will make a renewed bail application next month pending the outcome of his appeal in January.

Liverpool 1 Carlisle 1 (Liverpool win 3-2 on penalties): Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers’ torturous season continued as they scraped through a Capital One Cup tie on penalties against League Two side Carlisle last night.

The charges against the three were built around two separate allegations. Firstly, that they omitted the name of Mr FitzPatrick’s brother-in-law, John Peter O’Toole, from a list of non-resident accounts which was to be handed over to Revenue.

Former Anglo Irish Bank company secretary Bernard Daly told gardaí he couldn’t recall asking a subordinate if he would be willing to delete a bank account from a list being provided to Revenue.

Former Anglo Irish Bank CEO Seán FitzPatrick mentioned concerns about an account belonging to a Denis O’Brien in the context of a Revenue investigation into bogus non-resident accounts in the bank, a trial heard.

Former Anglo chairman Sean FitzPatrick told an employee not to submit his brother-in-law’s accounts to Revenue, which was investigating alleged tax evasion at the bank, a trial has heard.

“They always say here, the best place to find me is somewhere near the teapot.”

Tyrone 1-11 Donegal 0-13: Tyrone converted an injury-time free to win a first Ulster U21 title in nine years last night, condemning Donegal to a third final defeat in a row at this grade.

Roscommon 2-10 Meath 0-14

Tim Bresnan believes England have been "left behind" in one-day cricket after their embarrassing World Cup exit.

A woman who has spent nine years in the direct provision system has taken, along with her child, who is an Irish citizen, a High Court challenge to the constitutionality of social welfare laws under which child benefit is being refused to them.

The man involved in an altercation with Roy Keane on Wednesday, which hit headlines after an ambulance and Gardaí were called to the scene, has been named as businessman Frank Gillespie.

Ireland soccer manager Martin O’Neill last night dismissed an incident involving Roy Keane at the team hotel as a "distraction", saying the team was "ready to go" for tonight’s Euro 2016 clash with Scotland.

Friends and music stars have paid tribute to former Primal Scream musician Robert “Throb” Young, following the guitarist’s death.

Meath manager Mick O’Dowd is praying the second coming of Shane O’Rourke will solve his midfield dilemma.

The third week of Leaving Certificate exams kicked off with papers for students of physics and accounting.