Author Matthew Todd and members of Irish support agencies talk to Sharon Ní Chonchúir about the need for ongoing progress.

The uncovering of a cash laundering operation in which almost €1.5 million in cash was being dug out of a field and cleaned in a tumble drier resulted in a Limerick man being jailed for three years yesterday.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

It was literally a case of a criminal laundering money.

Donegal GAA chiefs last night released a statement in response to comments made by Jim McGuinness regarding last year’s team holiday.

A 55-year-old man has admitted possession of almost €1.5m in cash found buried in bogland in Co Limerick.

The Fermanagh hurlers are celebrating for the second weekend in a row. Seven days after winning the Lory Meagher Cup, they earned the right to step up to the higher grade with a four points win over Louth in a Nicky Rackard Cup promotion/relegation play-off at Kingspan Breffni Park.

Fermanagh 3-16 Sligo 1-17: John Paul McGarry remembered an absent friend as Fermanagh finally claimed the Lory Meagher Cup title they’ve craved.

Kerry strode to a 1-20 to 0-12 victory over Derry in the Christy Ring Cup final, lifting their second title and avoiding a third successive defeat in the Croke Park decider.

A father and son literally made it a ‘family affair’ after losing a total of 63kg in less than two years.

Kildare found themselves away from home and eight points down for the second Saturday in a row at Trim two days ago, but yet again the Christy Ring Cup champions dug themselves out of a hole to record a 3-23 to 2-18 win over Meath and set up a semi-final meeting with Kerry at Newbridge on Saturday.

Time travel, strippers and football.

A management-supported private equity takeover of Ulster Bank is being considered by Royal Bank of Scotland.

A struck-off solicitor has been jailed for two years for his role in deceiving a bank to lend almost €9m for land now worth €30,000.

A former solicitor from Co Kildare has been jailed for two and a half years for his role in a €9m land purchase fraud.

A struck-off solicitor from Co Kildare has been jailed for two years for his role in deceiving a bank to lend €9m for land now worth €30,000.

Sentencing has been delayed by a week in the case of a struck-off solicitor and an elderly businessman who defrauded a bank of almost €9m.

A struck-off solicitor and an elderly businessman will be sentenced today for defrauding a bank of almost €9m to buy land now worth €30,000.

A struck-off solicitor and an elderly businessman will be sentenced shortly for defrauding a bank of almost €9m to buy land now worth €30,000.

Seeing as they’re the self-proclaimed forgotten county in Ireland, some might accuse Donegal folk of being paranoid.

A new backroom with familiar faces was the method of hiring used by Donegal manager Jim McGuinness.

Jim McGuinness has turned to three former players - Damian Diver, John Duffy and Paul McGonigle - to fill the vacant positions in the Donegal senior football management team for 2014.

Donegal and Fingal will meet in the Allianz Hurling League Division 3A final, with the Dublin outfit getting the better of the Ulster side in Letterkenny this afternoon, while Louth and Fermanagh also claimed wins.

Table toppers Donegal recorded their second win in Allianz Hurling League Division 3A today, while their were also victories for Louth and Fingal.

The three-in-a-row dream for Ballintubber is still alive after their come-from-behind victory over Crossmolina in the Mayo SFC semi-final at Elverys MacHale Park yesterday.

There were new Club Senior Football champions crowned in a number of counties today, with Errigal Ciaran ending their six-year wait for another Tyrone title.

Two men have appeared in court in Kildare charged with theft and fraud offences amounting to over €8.8m.

The night Donegal retained the Ulster championship, Jim McGuinness looked out over the Diamond in Donegal town and let his mind wander in whatever direction it wished to go.

Conor Grogan’s 90th minute point secured a sensational victory for Tyrone in this Lory Meagher thriller at Croke Park on Saturday.

London claimed their first ever Christy Ring Cup title at Croke Park this afternoon, while Armagh and Tyrone both earned their second Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Cup titles respectively.

Fermanagh 2-15 Warwickshire 2-5

Two brothers who stabbed a father and son during the course of a burglary in what a judge described as “having no legitimate excuse or motivation” were sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Tyrone and South Down will meet in the Allianz Hurling League Division 4 final after registering final round wins this afternoon.

South Down and Longford were winners in Division 4 of the Allianz Hurling League, while Tyrone and Fermanagh drew in the other game.

The hurlers of Fermanagh and Tyrone mustered wins today, while Leitrim prevented a hat-trick of Ulster victories in Division 4 of the Allianz National Hurling League.

Antrim secured a semi-final berth, while there were also wins for Tyrone, Down and Derry in the Dr McKenna Cup this afternoon.

Monaghan 1-15 Fermanagh 2-10, Brewster Park

WHATEVER about the message it sends out to Dublin, their opponents in the Leinster SFC semi-final on June 28 for the second successive year, Westmeath, accept the reality of their situation, facing up to the champions on the back of a disastrous League campaign and a display against Wicklow in Tullamore at the week-end that was anything but convincing.

ONE can only surmise how either Westmeath or Wicklow would have fared in the Leinster SFC semi-final, but on the basis of the regulation 70 minutes yesterday, not very well.

A HIGH Court judge has said a bank has been the subject of a “scam” relating to a sum of a €7 million loaned by it for a land purchase in Co Offaly and he had been told a “cock and bull story” by a businessman who gave evidence before him yesterday.

Fermanagh 2-12 Leitrim 1-08, Tempo

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