The Special Criminal Court trial of two Dublin men accused of IRA membership has been adjourned until tomorrow.

A Dublin man accused of membership of the IRA was not unlawfully detained by gardai who searched his vehicle, the Special Criminal Court has ruled.

Wexford 3-22 Westmeath 2-9

Wexford manager Liam Dunne and his Westmeath counterpart Brian Hanley have both named unchanged teams for their All-Ireland SHC preliminary round qualifier at Wexford Park on Saturday evening.

A comprehensive ten-point win for the hot favourites in this Leinster SHC quarter-final in Mullingar yesterday but a whopping 4-12 conceded to the underdogs.

Westmeath 4-12 Galway 5-19

In naming his team to face Galway on Sunday, Westmeath manager Brian Hanley has given a vote of confidence to the players that started the Leinster SHC first round win over Antrim.

In naming his team to face Galway on Sunday, Westmeath manager Brian Hanley has given a vote of confidence to the players that started the Leinster SHC first round win over Antrim.

A book of evidence will be served before Christmas on two Dublin men charged with IRA membership, one of whom is also charged with extortion.

The State has two weeks to indicate when a book of evidence against two Dublin men charged with extortion and IRA membership charges will be served.

A Dublin man has appeared before a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court this morning charged with membership of the IRA.

Details of the Champion 15 teams for the Christy Ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Cups for 2010 have been announced today.

FOLLOWING fast on the recent Vodafone awards, Bernard Brogan (Dublin) and Lar Corbett (Tipperary) were last night again named as player-of-the-year in football and hurling for 2010, respectively, but this time by their peers, the members of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA).

Tipperary's Lar Corbett and Bernard Brogan of Dublin have been announced as the 2010 Opel GPA Players of the Year in hurling and football respectively at the Gaelic Players' Association Awards at the Citywest Hotel tonight.

KERRY GAA officials have received the green light from board delegates to press ahead with the purchase of 48 acres of land at Currans, near Currow, to develop a GAA Centre of Excellence in the county.

The Opel-GPA Hurling Team of the Year has been announced ahead of the awards ceremony at the Citywest Hotel on Friday. The selected team includes 14 of the players who received All-Star awards last month.

ANOTHER Christy Ring title for Westmeath, their third since winning in the inaugural season of 2005, cementing their position as the best of the teams-in-waiting beneath the top tier.

Westmeath 2-16 Kerry 1-18

Kerry hurlers secured home advantage for the semi-final of the Christy Ring Cup following their comprehensive defeat of Westmeath at Tralee this afternoon.

ONLY two of the countries nine GP co-operatives require Garda clearance for locums staffing their out-of- hours service, and seven areas of the country are without any out-of-hours service.

Kildare 4-10 Westmeath 0-11

A CAMPAIGN to recruit British-based GPs to work in Ireland will be launched next month.

CARLOW 1-10 DIT 0-06

The last bottle of HP sauce to be made in the UK rolled off the production line this morning.

BREEDING came to the fore in the Irish Horse Board-sponsored Limerick Lady championship at the Limerick Show.

A RECORD attendance of more than 20,000 flocked to Charleville’s two-day agricultural show last weekend to view some of the finest sport horses and livestock, and a huge range of attractions ranging from modified cars to pets.

THE late Joe Clarke would have been pleased that some of the finest cattle in the country were being shown and judged at Charleville Agricultural Show just as he was being laid to rest in Limerick on Saturday.

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT are yet to decide whether Eoin Kelly plays in today’s Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final against UCC.

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT open the defence of their Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup today with a tricky first round home tie against Galway IT (Limerick, 2pm).

CANADIAN Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is under fire after his director of communications, Françoise Ducros, was reportedly overheard on Thursday calling President George W Bush a moron at a NATO meeting in Prague.