Police in Belfast have begun digging at a patch of land near a cemetery and nature reserve which may contain hidden graves.

KERRY will be without Mike O’Donoghue for today’s All-Ireland JFC semi-final against Roscommon in Ennis.

Tipperary 0-15 Roscommon 0-11

An Oireachtais Committee set up to probe the conduct of Circuit Court Judge Brian Curtin was doomed to failure, a court heard today.

Circuit Court Judge Brian Curtin is to begin a High Court case today to prevent an Oireachtas Committee investigation into his conduct from going ahead.

Judge Brian Curtin tonight won the right to halt an Oireachtais committee investigation into the discovery of child pornography on his home computer.

Judge Brian Curtin began a court battle today to prevent an Oireachtas committee investigation into the discovery of child pornography on his home computer.

STEPHEN MacGABHANN will make his Championship debut with Meath in Sunday’s Leinster clash with Wicklow in Croke Park.

GARDAÍ will wait to hear Justice Robert Barr’s opening statement this morning before deciding whether to return to the tribunal.

Gardaí involved in the shooting of John Carthy in Abbeylara four years ago are due to reveal today whether they are prepared to continue co-operating with the inquiry into the killing.

A legal representative for the gardaí involved in the shooting of John Carthy in Abbeylara four years ago has requested a further day to consider an ultimatum issued to his clients yesterday by the chairman of the Barr Tribunal.

The gardaí involved in the shooting of John Carthy in Abbeylara four years ago are due to reveal today whether they are prepared to continue co-operating with the inquiry into the killing.

The RUC has called of its search of two houses in west Belfast after it failed to turn up the bodies of two schoolboys who disappeared 27 years ago.

The RUC has released the man arrested yesterday on suspicion of murdering two schoolboys who disappeared in west Belfast 27 years ago.

RUC mounting a renewed search for two young boys who disappeared in Belfast 27 years ago have arrested a 69-year-old man on suspicion of murder.

The families of two Belfast schoolchildren who have been missing for 27 years should be given the time and space to deal with a police search of houses, it was claimed today.

The judicial review into the Abbeylara shooting inquiry has been told that TDs and Senators are not qualified to ask questions in such a forum because they are biased.

The future of the Dail sub-committee inquiry into the death of John Carthy was been thrown into doubt.