Padraig Pearses will take on defending champions St Brigid’s in the Roscommon SFC final on October 14 after both sides came through their semi-final clashes at the weekend.

Michael Clifford on the demise of Custom House Capital and the missing €56 million

Stephen Griffin is the surprise inclusion in the Donegal side for tomorrow's GAA All-Ireland SFC first round qualifier encounter with Roscommon at Ballybofey, throw-in 5pm.

The Association of Secondary Teachers has criticised plans to make statistical information on schools available to parents for the first time later this year.

BRITONS who buy and sell magic mushrooms will no longer be able to take advantage of a loophole in the law which did not specify that fresh forms of the fungi were illegal.

COBH RAMBLERS must cope with the inevitable contrast between the high excitement of a game against Roy Keane’s Manchester United selection and a less glamorous contest with Limerick if they are to advance in the FAI Carlsberg Cup at St. Colman’s Park tonight (8 pm ko).

WITH John Whyte and Francie Grehan passing fitness tests Roscommon have announced an unchanged side to meet Kerry in the Bank of Ireland, All-Ireland SFC quarter final at Croke Park on Monday next.

THE chairman of Croke Park’s GAC, Tony O’Keeffe, has pledged to act on a bizarre rules anomaly which again surfaced in last Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier between Roscommon and Kildare.

LIMERICK face Cobh Ramblers tonight with a huge question mark over the future of the club.

Roscommon boss Tommy Carr has left two vacancies on his team to face Galway in the Connacht SFC on Sunday.

Roscommon boss Tommy Carr may be without corner-backs John Whyte and Ray Cox for Sunday's Connacht SFC clash with Galway.

The Morris Tribunal has heard that a memo circulated two years ago to Fine Gael's Jim Higgins and Labour's Brendan Howlin alleged that two high ranking member of the Gardai allowed a garda to use "trumped up" evidence to solve crimes.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims are currently meeting the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Dublin over allegations of a Government deal with the Real IRA.

The Morris Tribunal has heard that a Donegal Garda sergeant was involved in the planting of explosives in Ardara in November 1996.

A FIANNA Fáil senator has said corporal punishment should be brought back in schools in a bid to curb lawlessness.

Newly-released loyalist paramilitary chief Johnny Adair will be a force for peace, his spokesman said in a statement today.

There's just no stopping Tyrone.

The Ulster Defence Association has pledged not to decommission any of its illegally held weapons in response to this evening’s historic move by the IRA.

The union representing the majority of secondary school teachers has given a sceptical reaction to news that the Government is planning to establish a new authority to run the state exams.

The standing committee of the ASTI will decide this morning whether to suspend strike action pending talks aimed at resolving the three-month-old dispute.