Former Miss Ireland Pamela Flood and her restaurateur husband Ronan Ryan may go to prison for failing to quit their €900,000 home after having agreed to hand it back to a bank to which they owed €1.2m.

'Close family friend' Niall Power has become the second man sentenced to life in prison, after admitting to the murder of mother-of-three Irene White in her Co Louth home.

Generations of professional athletes have struggled with the transition from a life in lycra or gaudy nylon to civvies, but a glance at Claire Lambe’s diary would suggest that the former Olympic rower has negotiated it with ease.

Gardaí have arrested a man in his 40s in connection with the murder of Dundalk woman Irene White in April 2005.

Facebook says it “does not anticipate” any job losses in Ireland and is committed to long-term investment as it announced it would start booking advertising revenue locally instead of rerouting it via its international headquarters in Dublin.

As the youngsters say, 'we can’t even'.

Irish rower Claire Lambe thought she knew all there was to know about hype and hysteria after competing in an Olympic final last September.

From Rio, Ewan MacKenna writes about Ireland's best hopes at an Olympic gold medal, highlight both of our rowing teams and their growing success.

Back on the water after high winds led to the cancellation of Sunday’s programme, it was worth the wait for Ireland at the Lagoa Rowing Stadium yesterday.

The Rowing Ireland training facility on Inniscarra Lake is overlooked by a wooden-decked balcony.

A Dublin community is to hold a procession this evening to demand an end to feud violence and the devastation caused by the drug crisis.

Tipperary 0-11 Limerick 3-8: They contested Electric Ireland Munster and All-Ireland minor football finals in 2015 but Tipperary will play no further part in this year’s campaign after being dumped out by Limerick in Thurles last evening.

Stephen Rochford was officially ratified as Mayo senior football manager at a County Board meeting in MacHale Park, Castlebar last night.

It was a day of narrow misses for the Irish crews at the World Rowing Championships, although Olympic qualification remains very attainable for three boats in France’s Lac d’Aiguebelette.

A man whose neck was slashed when a fight erupted at a wedding has lost a legal action for damages against the hotel where the function took place.

Tom Hughes’s character uses his allure to wring secrets from women in a major new Cold War thriller, says Susan Griffin

Kerry, Kildare, Tyrone and Warwickshire celebrated Allianz Hurling League successes this afternoon.

He may be more used to the delights of Royal Ascot but trainer Dermot Weld has always enjoyed the challenge of Cheltenham and despite only training a handful of hurdlers – and all of those double up on the Flat – the man who has broken boundaries worldwide is proving a dab hand at getting one right for March.

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Teenager was found dead in Dublin while in HSE aftercare

Mayo Convention: Mike Connelly was elected chairman of Mayo GAA Board at yesterday’s Convention.

Two Dublin men who "stomped" on the head of their victim while he was lying on the ground leaving him with a serious head injury have avoided a jail term.

Olympic champion Katie Taylor opens her title defence at the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships in Jeju, South Korea against Dominica’s Valerian Spicer today.

NUIG/Gráinne Mhaol took their third consecutive senior eight at the Irish Rowing Championships in the National Rowing Centre, Farran Woods, yesterday.

From the archives: In recent years, Tipperary wins over Cork in football have become more common.

Katie Taylor cruised to the 145th victory of her career to progress to tomorrow’s lightweight semi-finals at the European Women’s Championships in Bucharest.

A former Munster and Cork champion will be standing in Katie Taylor’s way at the ninth European Women’s Boxing Championships in Romania today.

Jockey Eddie O’Connell is to appeal the findings of the Referrals Committee which earlier this week saw him banned for four years by the Turf Club.

A Dublin man accused of killing a 12-year old boy in a fire told his neighbour not to tell gardaí he was there, a court has heard.

Olympic champion Katie Taylor will lead Ireland's five-strong squad for the 2014 European Women’s Elite Championships in Romania in May.

Students from St Kieran’s NS in Broughal, Co Offaly have created a virtual reality version of Clonmacnoise as part of a history project.

Bracelet appears the latest likely Classic candidate off the Ballydoyle production line after making a winning return in the Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial yesterday.

Jockey Eddie O’Connell and trainer Jim Lambe’s bid to stop the Turf Club from making any adverse findings against them in respect of allegations they were involved in irregular betting has opened before the High Court.

The cost of preparing the Mayo senior football team jumped by almost €170,000 last year, it was revealed at the County Board Convention held in Breaffy House Hotel yesterday.

The families of two firefighters who died while battling a blaze at a disused factory in Bray want the Wicklow county manager to give evidence at the inquests into their deaths.

Meekong River earned a crack at the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud in Saint-Cloud next Saturday when landing the listed Eyrefield Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday.

A woman has told the High Court how her life “was ruined” and her “childhood stolen” by a man who sexually abused her over a 10-year period.

Long before the national ambassador programme, Killarney already had “a track record in local ambassadors”, attracting conferences worth hundreds of thousands of euro and filling the town’s hotels, restaurants, and parklands, the Kerry launch of the Fáilte Ireland national ambassador programme heard yesterday.

Conor O'Dwyer hopes Uncle Tom Cobley has one more good day in him as he prepares for what is likely to be his final start for the Co Kildare trainer in Sunday's Lord Hemphill Memorial Handicap Chase at Galway.

Armagh went out of the All-Ireland football championship on Saturday, but Jimmy Lambe struck a blow for the county when saddling 25-1 shot Silk Hall to land the featured Grade 3 Kevin McManus Bookmaker Grimes Hurdle at Tipperary yesterday.