Loosehead Eric O'Sullivan, versatile back Michael Lowry and 20-year old centre James Hume have all signed their first senior contracts at Kingspan Stadium.

James Hume, one of Ulster’s many young stars, wants to lay down another marker when Cardiff Blues provide the opposition at Kingspan Stadium tomorrow.

The Good Friday Agreement brought the framework for peace, but it hasn’t been an easy ride. Political Correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith looks back on the key moments of the first 20 years of the peace process.

The Ireland Under-20s suffered an alarming collapse in the final quarter of their final U-20 Six Nations game as England ran riot.

Margaret Thatcher’s chief legal adviser believed prosecutions would “go as high as chief superintendent” within the RUC over an alleged shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland, newly released secret files reveal.

While intensive and daily negotiations about peace were going on, the IRA planned and executed a terrible atrocity. Adams honoured the bomber, writes Fergus Finlay

In a film about John Hume’s pivotal role in ending terrorism on this island, launched last week, Bill Clinton describes Hume as “Northern Ireland’s Martin Luther King”. 

Esther McCarthy speaks to film director and producer Maurice Fitzpatrick about his documentary on Northern Ireland peace campaigner John Hume

A rhino breeder in South Africa is planning an online auction of rhino horn, capitalising on a court ruling that opened the way to domestic trade despite an international ban imposed to curb widespread poaching

In June 1967, Arab leaders decided to crush Israel, then the only democracy in that divided region. 

Economic pragmatism played a huge part in Martin McGuinness’ transformation from IRA leader to peace-seeking statesman, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Derry has been moved by many republican funerals through the decades of strife and conflict, but yesterday’s spectacle was bigger than any one tradition. 

Legal trade in rhinoceros horns could save the species from extinction — or hasten their demise, says Rachel Nuwer.

The internet was buzzing with comments on last night's US presidential debate but it was comments from Fox News host Brit Hume that seemed to ignite a frenzy on Twitter.

Jack Hume led the fightback for Great Britain & Ireland who trail 8-4 at the midway stage of their St Andrew’s Trophy clash with the Continent of Europe in Kent.

Three-under par rounds of 68 over the challenging Chantilly course by Walker Cup star Jack Hume and Stuart Grehan helped Ireland cruise into the quarter-finals of the European Amateur Team Championship.

Asking what’s wrong with Rory McIlroy is a bit like that old joke about George Best, Miss World and the bed in £50 notes. When a player racks up six Top-10 finishes from nine stroke-play starts, there really shouldn’t be any reason to start pressing any alarm bells.

Warrenpoint’s Colm Campbell survived a spectacular back nine charge from Jack Hume to clinch a heart-stopping, wire-to-wire win in the Flogas Irish Amateur Open.

RBAI 13 - 3 CAMPBELL COLLEGE: ROYAL Belfast Academical Institution won the Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Cup for the 31st time with a dramatic 13-3 victory over Campbell College at Kingspan Stadium.

John Hume wanted to have talks with the IRA Army Council in what senior government officials thought was a plan for a public and damaging confrontation.

Ireland’s Walker Cup heroes will not be wasting time resting on their laurels after Great Britain and Ireland’s emphatic victory over the United States at Royal Lytham & St Annes.

To read Alison O’Connor (Irish Examiner, August 28), it would appear that the peace process started with Ahern and Blair, and because “Fine Gael did not broker this historic agreement... this will always stick in the craw of Fine Gael”. I was surprised to read such mean-minded words.

PAUL DUNNE

Three weeks out from the Walker Cup and Irish top amateurs are already claiming the headlines.

Home Internationals

Ireland suffered an agonising tie with England as they opened the defence of their Amateur Home International series at Royal Portrush yesterday.

Ireland’s best amateurs went their separate ways this week but whether the US Amateur or the Home Internationals are their next port of call, they departed in buoyant mood following an excellent collective showing at the European Individual Amateur in Slovakia last week.

IRUPA, the representative body of Irish professional rugby players, is hoping a mandatory concussion module will be in place for all players before the start of the season in the wake of a New Zealand study, which revealed 94% of former elite players had sustained at least one concussion.

We still don’t understand the real thing, so we’re right to worry about the rise of AI, writes Bella Bathurst