Stephen Cluxton’s long-time auxiliary John Leonard’s award-winning Dub Sub Confidential autobiography last year gave the greatest insight into the goalkeeper. 

Money collected for destitute children in the Middle East was stolen by a professional criminal gang who removed a safe from a Limerick church.

Inspired by the Richard Harris Film Festival in Limerick, UL’s Glucksman Library has decided to put on an exhibition of Richard Harris photographs from the collection of Fr. John Leonard.

Passengers have described the horrifying events on a plane that saw a man go berserk and start climbing over passengers, screaming and make guttural noises before dying on board.

John Leonard is one of the best GAA goalkeepers you may never have heard of. As understudy to Stephen Cluxton, most of his inter-county life was spent on the subs’ bench. Amazingly, his incredible rise onto the Dublin senior football panel was achieved against a backdrop of a troubled life, battling drug addiction and alcoholism...

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UNFORTUNATELY, enjoyment of the Olympic Games often requires something that one associates with screen or theatrical drama, or fiction: a suspension of disbelief.

Four years after he climbed to the top of Olympic achievement, Michael Phelps took the last step he needed to reach the absolute peak.

Drugs cheats at London 2012 will be caught but athletes who put in world record-breaking performances should be given the benefit of the doubt, the Olympics’ world body said yesterday.

A senior figure in the London 2012 Games has warned against "irresponsible" and "destructive" judgment of the Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen after a leading coach described her world-record breaking race as "disturbing".

John Leonard, the executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, last night compared Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen’s winning performance in the women’s 400m individual medley to Irish swimmer Michelle Smith.

The Alzheimer Society of Ireland and its carers were yesterday poignantly thanked for the help they gave finance minister Michael Noonan’s wife Florence, who died from the disease last Thursday, 14 years after the illness had gripped her life at the age of 54.

Dublin senior football manager Paul Caffrey will leave it closer to throw-in on Sunday to name his side to face Monaghan in the rearranged Allianz NFL Division 2 meeting between the counties set for Parnell Park on Sunday at 2.30pm.

Dublin 2-12 Longford 1-14

Dublin manager Paul Caffrey has made four changes to his team for Saturday's O'Byrne Cup semi-final against Carlow (Parnell Park, throw-in 5pm).

Dublin manager Paul Caffrey has made three changes to his side for Saturday's O'Byrne Cup quarter-final against Westmeath (Parnell Park, throw-in 5pm).

THE devil is in the detail. Ask Croke Park operations manager Alan Gallagher. Just as staff in Jones Road put one little issue to bed, another pops up.

After an injury-ravaged 2006, Colin Moran will captain Paul Caffrey's Dublin side in Saturday's Dublin Bus/Evening Herald Dubs Stars match in Portmarnock (throw-in 2pm).

GAA PRESIDENT Sean Kelly has backed novel rule changes for next year’s secondary provincial competitions which could trigger the introduction of the sin-bin into Gaelic games.

President George Bush tonight offered the US a $673bn (€646bn) “growth and jobs” plan to stimulate the economy.