Voting opens in Labour’s shadow cabinet elections today, with 49 MPs battling for a place in Ed Miliband’s top team.

ALL afternoon Laois and Mayo traded scores with an abandon normally reserved for youngsters swapping football stickers, but Mick O’Dwyer was certain the result had finally been decided when Noel Garvan launched his third missile between John Healey’s posts.

Petrol retailers in Northern Ireland are to warn the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer today that more filling stations could close and more jobs will be lost unless the price differential with stations in the South is addressed.