After the mauling they got from Limerick last weekend, the Antrim senior hurlers were out to redeem themselves yesterday at Casement Park in the Ulster SHC final.

James Campbell and Michael Herron have been brought into the Antrim team for their Ulster SHC final clash with Derry on Sunday afternoon.

“No complaints,” was the reaction of veteran Na Piarsaigh forward Damien Quigley after Saturday’s comprehensive extra-time loss to Loughgiel Shamrocks in this All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final at Parnell Park.

MITT Romney, the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is promising Americans deep spending cuts, smaller government, trade penalties on China, a new Federal Reserve chairman and sweeping deregulation.

IT took Loughgiel half an hour to come to grips with the conditions in yesterday’s rain-lashed Ulster Club SHC final against Ballycran at Casement Park, but once the Shamrocks turned on the style they demolished the Ards men.

O’Loughlin Gaels 3-10 Loughgiel 0-10

The suspect in the shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords pleaded not guilty in court, the 22-year-old’s first response to the charges.

All-Ireland U-21 HC semi-final

The jury in the Westmeath cold-case murder trial has seen photographs of bones and teeth found in the victim’s garden years after his death, and heard that his wife dressed him in women’s clothes before telling his doctor he was mad.

West African Diamonds (WAD), the Irish-owned, AIM-listed diamond miner has sold its first parcel of diamonds from its 100% owned Bomboko mine in Guinea.

PROVIDENCE Resources, the Tony O’Reilly Jnr-fronted oil and gas exploration company, has announced a doubling of production levels at its Vermillion 60 field in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Derry pensioner was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack yards from his home, an inquest heard today.

PRECIOUS metals exploration company Conroy Diamonds & Gold has reported a slight narrowing of its first-half loss to €166,698 for the six months to the end of November.

NIALL GINTY (Letters, November 19) and Eoghan Harris (Sunday Independent, November 11) both commented on my letter to you (November 9).

Walker Cup hopefuls Simon Ward and Jonathan Caldwell will lead the chase for the East of Ireland Amateur Open at Co Louth on Saturday.

Charred human remains have been found among the debris from the stricken space shuttle Columbia.