It's the first time in 46 years that Jimmy Cully had quad lambs on his holding in Longwood, Co. Meath and he admits that three sets in two weeks is quite a rare sight.

The Great Library of Alexandria was one of the wonders of the ancient world, thought to contain most of the knowledge accumulated by mankind.

Jimmy was diagnosed with dementia in 2009, a condition his family believes was directly related to his football career.

Ireland and the rest of Europe is experiencing a “perfect storm” in terms of a booming cocaine market, a leading expert has said.

Carbery has spent the last two months rehabbing an ankle injury.

Legendary Cork goalkeeper and now head coach Ger Cunningham said he would have loved the current Munster championship format to have been in place during his playing career.

The brother of an Irishman missing for 36 years has backed a Welsh police appeal for relatives of missing people to provide DNA samples.

With one old score comprehensively settled, redemption will again be foremost on Nemo minds when they step into the ring with Corofin early in the New Year.

He's only the third Nemo player to reach the 100 club, and two come from his household.

Thomas Carton, 55, died Wednesday night at a house in Torc Terrace, Killarney.

Desperate members of a lifeboat crew tried to save the life of a colleague whose car slipped into the sea in a freak accident off the coast of Donegal.

There are reports that the main suspect in the the kidnapping and torture of Kevin Lunney has died.

Nemo claimed a 21st county title thanks largely to a devastating ten minute spell in the middle of the first half transforming a draw game into a ten-point half-time lead.

Brenda Woulfe owns Woulfe’s Bookshop in the town of Listowel,Co Kerry

It’s 80 years since Kerry won the All-Ireland in the Dingle colours of red and white that were originally a set of Cork jerseys.

Doctors are attempting to wean him off a respirator after he suffered serious head injuries and broken bones in his neck.

It’s just after noon on the day of the All-Ireland hurling final. About one thousand Tipperary people are gathered on Talbot Street in Dublin.

Jim Gavin’s squad undertook a training session in Cooraclare on Saturday.

Almost 30 years ago, the Reids were the first family in Ballyhale to get miniature goalposts.

A 32-year-old man found to have been insane when he beat his neighbour to death with a crowbar, posted about 2,000 videos of himself reading the bible on YouTube, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Joe Root insists England must beware of “sleep walking” into their inaugural Test against Ireland at Lord’s today.

The parents of a man beaten to death by a neighbour who was undergoing a psychotic episode have told the Central Criminal Court that it is "unacceptable" that someone so dangerous and known to mental health services was living just a few doors from their "defenceless" son.

A murder trial jury has heard that a 32-year-old man admits attacking another man with a crowbar in a "vicious manner" which resulted in his death last year in Sligo.

Live at the Marquee is a terrific night out when all the ingredients gel and everything crystallised beautifully for Christy Moore's Saturday night performance under the sloping dome that is by now Cork's favourite summertime venue.

Tomorrow’s meeting with Limerick is a chance for Tipp to rest some ‘made men’

The Trinity professor who went missing on Mount Everest is being remembered today in his home town of Bray in Co Wicklow.

A memorial service is to be on Monday for a father-of-one who died just hours after summiting the world’s highest mountain.

A lecture theatre at Dublin City University is being named after journalist Veronica Guerin.

So that’s Sunday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

As rates of childhood obesity soar, one Cork school is reviving the once-common schoolyard activity of skipping to boost child fitness and co-ordination skills, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Hollywood actor George Clooney has revealed he and his wife, Amal, spent Easter Sunday with U2’s frontman Bono at his home in Dublin.

Gavin Bazunu will be back on familiar ground on Friday evening, when Ireland kick off in the U17 European Championship against Greece in Tallaght Stadium.

Long before the ethos of the GAA club became a marketing stick to gently beat us over the head with, one man from a small parish in West Mayo had a vision of how he could best combine his passion for a sport he loved and improve the lives of those in his local community.

It was back in 2010 that I sat down with Brian Barry-Murphy for a lengthy conversation about the highs and lows — but, mainly, the highs — of what the then 32-year-old Rochdale midfielder was only too happy to describe as a “journeyman’s” career spent mainly in the English lower leagues.

Rochdale have announced that Corkman Brian Barry-Murphy has been appointed first-team manager, signing a two-year deal.

As Jimmy Crowley and Lankum join forces for a gig, Marjorie Brennan delves into the fascinating history of the wartime ballad they both perform

If ever a trainer fit the handle of this column, it is Damien English, the Balbriggan native operating out of Grougha Stables in Naul.

Helen and Thomas O’Driscoll lost three sons in a tragic murder-suicide in Cork six years ago are hoping for a fresh start after getting the key to a new home.

Northern Ireland are hoping to convince promising defender Jimmy Dunne to switch allegiances from the Republic of Ireland.

Off the beaten track It took the impending birth of his son and a sense of responsibility to his new family to focus Cathal Landers’ mind at last.

Chris Salewicz pulls out all the stops to emphasise this is no ordinary rock biog; this is a Jimmy Page biog, this is one louder, one bigger, one nastier, but the rock god title is for the reader to decide, says Sam Boland