On her recent visit to Europe, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, addressed members of the Dail.

Six greyhounds and their assigned clubs will take to the traps with glory in their sights in the final of the Con and Annie Kirby Memorial Stake 2019 this Saturday at Limerick Greyhound Stadium.

The last four champions are still in the race for the Limerick senior football championship title.

From laying down the roots for dairy groups to establishing credit unions, it’s time to also honour the pioneers who helped this island to flourish, writes Kyran Fitzgerald. 

Ryle Dwyer reads the argument that the Irish uprisings of the first decades of the 20th century were a series of civil conflicts, not wars, and they were essentially between Irish people.

Paramilitary punishment attacks on more than 500 children — including 250 by republicans — should be included in a proposed North-South commission of investigation into child sexual abuse by IRA members.

A new report has called for a full commission of inquiry into the alleged sexual and physical abuse of children by paramilitaries in the North.

Almost half of emigrants who left Ireland during the crash were in full-time employment when they decided to move abroad, a study has found.

Eventer Sam Watson is targeting a big performance in the four-star show at Burghley, England, at the end of the month, having won the feature three-star class at Camphire, Co Waterford, yesterday.

KEVIN DOWNES confesses it was weird. When he entered the dressing rooms of the Staker Wallace club in Martinstown near Kilmallock last January, he was unsure. On a black winter’s night, he was introduced to the world of senior inter-county hurling, just over four months since he’d torn open the envelope and digested his Leaving Cert results.

NIALL MORAN recalls a November afternoon from 2008. He took an Árd Scoil Rís team to Tipperary Town that day for a Dean Ryan Cupsemi-final against Blackwater CS.

THE draws for both the Roches Feeds Oaks at Limerick and Tote Gold Cup at Shelbourne were deferred until today, though both events had achieved their target number of entries.

HOPEFULLY we can cease writing about the weather and concentrate on the racing side of things and this week sees the commencement of the Tyrur McGuigan Open 575 at Shelbourne and the Vetsearch Kennedy Cup at Limerick.

Within shouting distance of Christmas and here we are in a situation where the greyhound action is absolutely red hot with the Kerry Agribusiness Irish St Leger commencing tomorrow at Limerick Stadium while on Saturday at Shelbourne the first round of the Comerford Cakes National Puppy Stake will fire into action.

WATERFORD grabs the spotlight this week with the final of the Connolly’s Red Mills Masters topping the programme on Saturday and it promises to be a highly interesting contest.

THE well-fancied Tyrur Bucko will not run in Saturday’s second semi-final of the Pat Hennerty Sales Irish Laurels at Curraheen Park due to a serious injury.

Former US president Bill Clinton is to give a special address to students at University College Dublin tonight.

Former US president Bill Clinton is to give a special address to students at University College Dublin tonight.

WITHIN minutes of the referee’s final whistle sounding from the Croke Park pitch, the cars were motoring around Liberty Square in Thurles with horns blaring, passengers shouting “up Tipp” out the windows and thoughts already turning to the team’s homecoming.

OUR correspondent ALLAN PROSSER is again filling in for the absent Liam Mackey who is away on international duty this week.

ONE day Liam Kennedy is on the dole in north Tipperary — the next he’s orbited into a millionaire lifestyle in Beverly Hills.

The fishing community in Co Donegal is coming to terms this morning with the latest tragedy in Ireland's waters.

Human rights activists have called on the IRA to lift their threat against scores of people intimidated out of Northern Ireland during the conflict and allow them to come home.

SINN FÉIN has agreed to a meeting with relatives of the Omagh bombing victims.

Sinn Féin has agreed to a meeting with relatives of the Omagh bomb victims.

AN outspoken opponent of paramilitary street violence took his Westminster election message to the heart of loyalist Belfast yesterday — flanked by a Dáil deputy.

The Irish and British governments must be prepared to share power in Northern Ireland if unionists refuse to go into government with nationalists, a senior Sinn Féin negotiator insisted tonight.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and Democratic Unionist Assembly member Diane Dodds were today under fire for failing to attend a debate with other west Belfast election candidates on paramilitaries.

A new team of detectives has been brought in to probe a loyalist paramilitary murder dogged by allegations of a police cover-up, it was revealed tonight.

An academic and human rights campaigner threw his hat into the ring today for the battle for Gerry Adams’ Westminster seat.

SHOOTINGS and beatings of children by paramilitary organisations in the North have increased almost fivefold since the Good Friday Agreement supposedly put the peace process on a firm footing.

Northern Ireland risks sliding into a society marked by ‘‘gangsterism’’ unless the control that paramilitaries exert over neighbourhoods is tackled, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble claimed today.