A Fine Gael councillor and constituency colleague of An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has received an "unreserved apology" from a Sinn Féin activist over comments posted on Facebook.

Crowds of between 20,000 and 25,000 are expected at this Sunday’s Munster SHC first-round games.

New Munster Council CEO Kieran Leddy has one obvious challenge looming; a Munster Hurling Championship swelled to almost three times its old size. But there is much more in his in-tray; the financing of clubs, the ever-tightening squeeze on facilities and a shortage of referees

Irish startup Pulsate has gained the backing of global payments company PayPal as well as government agencies and a leading investment fund as part of a $1.5m (€1.34m) funding round.

Having even one night of disrupted shut-eye could age us, research shows. A sleep expert tells Margaret Jennings why those 40 winks are important to your health.

 Ulster MFC final Derry 1-11 Cavan 0-11 

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne kept alive their Hogan Cup defence in dramatic fashion at Nenagh this afternoon.

Pobalcoil Chorca Dhuibhne, Kerry 1-14 St Patrick’s, Cavan 1-11 (AET): Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne kept alive their Hogan Cup defence in dramatic fashion at Nenagh this afternoon.

St. Patrick’s, Cavan 2-12, St. Patrick’s Academy, Dungannon 0-8:

Pulsate, an innovative mobile marketing company founded by Dublin man Patrick Leddy, has secured funding from one of the giants of the global tech scene as part of a funding round led by Delta Partner’s Bank and Enterprise Ireland.

Limerick’s own Neil Cusack saw a lot in America, like hillbillies with shotguns chasing athletes, but for a moment he owned America too. This weekend 40 years ago he won the oldest and most celebrated city marathon in the world, a moment that brought a welcome sense of joy and colour and even the exotic to Ireland 1974

Tyrone 1-15 Cavan 0-11

At 88, the iconic theatre’s barmaid tells Margaret Carragher about the many stars she met, and how she bizarrely hid eight kids from the boss

Cavan 1-10 Tyrone 0-10

The Katie Taylor machine rolls on to Waterford tonight after a unanimous victory over American Liz Leddy at the Silver Springs Hotel in Cork last night.

Katie Taylor’s penultimate bout in Ireland before she competes in the World Championships went exactly to plan last night when she beatAmerican Liz Leddy in an unanimous verdict at a packed Silver Springs Hotel, Cork.

Katie Taylor will make her first appearance in Cork tomorrow night in her penultimate bout in Ireland before she jets off for the 2012 World Championships in Qinhuangdao, China, where she’ll be hoping to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics.

Galway 2-16 Cavan 1-9

CAVAN football received a timely pick-me-up at Brewster Park in Enniskillen when their U21s booked a place in the provincial decider for the second successive year.

The Head of RTE Radio 1 Ana Leddy is standing down.

A CLEAR and simple warning system for drugs that can impair driving ability is to be developed by the State’s pharmacy regulator.

CAMPAIGNERS battling to stop RTÉ dropping its only programme devoted to the blind have set up an online petition to try to persuade the national broadcaster to change its mind.

Broadcaster and football pundit Eamon Dunphy is to join RTE Radio in the autumn hosting a new show once a week, it emerged today.

WITH the cancellation of Rattlebag, the Creedon Show and the Mystery Train, the new head of Radio 1, Ana Leddy, will have made the lives of thousands of listeners just that tiny little bit less bearable.

WHEN Ana Leddy takes up her new role as head of RTÉ Radio 1 on March 6, she will be all too conscious that the latest Joint National Listenership Research figures show that her job will not be the most enviable in Irish radio.

A 25-YEAR-OLD homeless man, whose badly burned body was discovered in a fire at a derelict house in Dublin, was dead from drug poisoning before the blaze erupted, an inquest heard yesterday.

A garda has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that he was not aware of any garda coming to his assistance when a protester had him by the neck at the "Reclaim the Streets" protest in 2002.

A garda accused of assaulting a protester at the 2002 ‘Reclaim the Streets’ march in Dublin has claimed in evidence that he was justified in striking the man three times in the "upper body" but denied he ever hit him in the head.

A protester at the "Reclaim the Streets" march in 2002, has told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury, that he saw blood in the air when a garda struck his friend on the head with a baton.

Defence counsel for a garda accused of assaulting a "Reclaim the Streets" protester in 2002, has told the man his client will testify that he saw him with his hand to the throat of another garda.

A man who claims a garda him assaulted at the 2002 ‘Reclaim the Streets’ march in Dublin has identified himself on video footage of the event being struck three times by a garda with a baton.

A Garda accused of assaulting a protester at the 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" march in Dublin has claimed he was justified in striking a protester three times in the "upper body" but denies he ever hit a protester in the head.

A detective has told a jury that aerial footage of the 2002 ‘Reclaim the Streets’ protest in Dublin appears to show Garda Paul Tallon striking out at a protester three times with a baton.

A man who claims he was assaulted by a garda when he attended the 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" march in Dublin has identified himself on camera footage of the event.

A member of An Garda Síochana has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court charged with assault causing harm to a protestor at the 2002 ‘Reclaim the Streets’ march on Dame Street.

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to the late Anthony Leddy, the former President of ICMSA, whose funeral took place in Milltown, Co Cavan.