We have written here before that trainer, Ger Lyons, needs to find a Group 1 horse to carry his progressive career to the next level.

NA PIARSAIGH (Limerick) 2-19 - CUALA (Dublin) 1-22 (after extra time): Two things you don’t often see at Croke Park; snow on St Patrick’s Day and Con O’Callaghan wasting chances for scores.

Ireland 35 Wales 12: Adam Griggs sang the praises of the “immense” Claire Molloy, after she secured a brace of tries in Ireland’s bonus-point victory over Wales in the Women’s Six Nations Championship at Donnybrook yesterday.

A couple with an investment pot in the US worth more than €144,000, and a rental holiday home in Wexford, have been given another chance of saving their €550,000 Dublin residence from being repossessed by a bank.

Tommy Lyons’ time as Dublin manager couldn’t be more removed from Jim Gavin’s tenure. But the Mayo native is in a good place to comment on the brilliance of a man he introduced to inter-county management.

Just when we thought it was safe to assume Aidan O’Brien’s three-year-old colts were rather ordinary, along came The Gurkha last Sunday to land the French 2000 Guineas by five and a half lengths.

The family of a fisherman, whose body was found in the River Shannon at Mungret, have said they have many unanswered questions as to how he died, despite a Garda investigation which found no clear evidence of foul play in his death.

The father of a woman sexually assaulted by businessman Anthony Lyons has condemned Mr Lyons’ release from prison yesterday, saying the man never showed any meaningful remorse for his crime.

An organisation which campaigns against the trafficking of migrant women into prostitution has hit out at a suspended jail term handed down to a company executive who ran a sophisticated brothel network in Limerick.

Two men have been refused permission by the High Court to bring petitions challenging the result of last month’s marriage equality referendum.

LANSDOWNE 23 YOUNG MUNSTER 19: Lansdowne came through a huge test of their Ulster Bank League title credentials as they edged out Young Munster 23-19 in an absorbing Division 1A semi-final that went to extra-time on Saturday.

A former Assistant Garda Commissioner has told a jury how a man who was first charged with the 1997 murder of one woman, but later had the charge withdrawn, could not have "more accurately described" the carving knife blades found at the scene.

Richie Power has criticised the performance of referee Colm Lyons in Sunday’s Division 1A game between Kilkenny and Dublin in Nowlan Park.

Scotland 23 Ireland 18: Club International: Ireland suffered late heartbreak in Galashiels last night as Scotland won back the Dalriada Cup after a cracking encounter with their Scottish counterparts.

Garda denies he didn’t have ‘blind bit of interest’ in evidence to corroborate innocence

A well-known traditional singer who claimed that the cover of a book written by historian Diarmuid Ferriter had depicted him as an alcoholic has settled his claim for damages.

A solicitor for Ian Bailey’s partner Jules Thomas wrote to a State solicitor in 1998 saying Ms Thomas "emphatically" would not stand over statements allegedly made by her to gardaí in February 1997 if called to give evidence at any trial, the High Court has been told.

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Businessman Anthony Lyons is to be sent back to prison for another 18 months for sexual assault, a court ruled today.

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The family of convicted sex attacker Anthony Lyons n were followed and abused when he was jailed for six months, a court has been told.

High-profile aviation broker Anthony Lyons will go back to prison after the Court of Criminal Appeal found the six-month custodial sentence imposed on him for a violent sexual assault was “unduly lenient”.

When Mark Lyons met up with John Allen he didn’t need too much persuading to get involved with the Limerick hurlers.

Ralph Beckett’s Secret Gesture skipped almost to the head of every bookmaker’s ante-post Investec Oaks market after a wildly impressive victory through pouring rain at Lingfield.

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A hearing date on the leniency of the sentence imposed on Anthony Lyons, a businessman convicted of sexual assault, has been applied for at the Court of Criminal Appeal by the DPP.

He says he doesn’t mean it in a disrespectful way, but three of the four ex-Labour TDs now in exile on the opposition benches may not like John Lyons’ comments very much.

Six handicaps, on an eight-race programme, make Dundalk a most unattractive proposition from a punting point of view tonight.

Battle Of Marengo is available at around 25-1 for next year’s Investec Derby following his facile victory at Gowran Park.

The mother of the woman sexually assaulted by Anthony Lyons said her daughter told the court a month ago that she did not want compensation if it would “in any way reduce the sentence”.

THE controversial case in which a Dublin businessman was ordered to pay a victim of sexual assault a sum of €75,000, and had five-and-a-half years of a six-year sentence suspended, suggests that here is one law for the rich, and another for the poor, in this country.

A high-profile aviation broker has been convicted of sexual assault after a jury rejected his claim that his cholesterol medication made him do it.

Successful with Princess Highway at Royal Ascot last week, Dermot Weld struck with another high-class three-year-old filly when Caponata landed the listed Naas Oaks Trial in Naas last night.

Tom Hogan is gearing up for a rare Royal Ascot runner with Gordon Lord Byron in the Wokingham Stakes.

The GAA have declined to comment on Tommy Lyons’ allegation that he was asked to name his price in an interview for the Mayo job.

A former car dealership owner who viciously assaulted his partner and her female friend after a night out has been sentenced to four years.

BIBLE Black, trained by Dundalk specialist Ger Lyons, came from last-to-first to land last night’s feature at the County Louth track, the listed Star Appeal 2-Y-0 Stakes.

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KEVIN HEFFERNAN once announced that an All-Ireland final win against Kerry was actually worth two. Tommy Lyons would go even further.

EMULOUS oozed class as she justified favouritism for Dermot Weld and owner Khalid Abdullah in the Group 3 Brownstown Stakes, the feature of last night’s action at Fairyhouse.

PAT SMULLEN was seen at his tactical best when guiding the Dermot Weld-trained Sapphire to a convincing all-the-way victory in the Irish Stallion Farms Fillies race at Naas last night, highlight of a 134/1 treble for the champion jockey.