Kevin Toner’s first-half winner stretched St Patrick’s Athletic unbeaten run to four games as they dominated at the UCD Bowl.

This was scrappy, tense and far from impressive.

A 90th-minute equaliser from St Patrick’s Athletic sub Dean Clarke denied Cork City victory at Turner’s Cross on Friday night.

Cork City moved level on points with Dundalk at the top of the Premier Division – but with two more games played – after Josh O’Hanlon’s 83rd-minute header earned them a draw against St Patrick’s Athletic at Turner’s Cross on Sunday night.

Shamrock Rovers 3 St Patrick’s Athletic 0

St Patrick’s Athletic 2 Sligo Rovers 0

An early Ryan Brennan goal was sufficient in the end for St Patrick’s Athletic to deservedly avenge a defeat at the RSC back in February as Waterford finished with nine men at Richmond Park.

St Patrick’s Athletic 1 Limerick 0... Ian Bermingham led by example to get St Patrick’s Athletic back on track with the only goal of the game at Richmond Park.

St Pat’s formed a guard of honour and applauded the new league champions on to the pitch before kick-off.

In a west African country where militant and terrorist attacks are “entirely unpredictable”, Irish soldiers are helping to train the Malian army to enforce the rule of law.

ST PATRICK’S ATHLETIC 1 - BOHEMIANS 3: A second-half comeback earned Bohemians sweet revenge for a 4-0 reversal at Dalymount Park back in March as they won this frantic Dublin derby to keep St Patrick’s deep in relegation trouble, second bottom of the Premier Division.

Shamrock Rovers 1 St Patrick’s Ath 1: Chris Fagan’s second-half equaliser last night lifted St Patrick’s Athletic off the bottom of the Premier Division as indiscipline once again plagued Shamrock Rovers.

St Patrick’s Athletic 0

St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Limerick 2: Limerick showed no adverse affects from their managerial upheaval during the week as interim boss Willie Boland’s side came away from Richmond Park with three big points.

Two goals in the space of a couple of minutes at the end of the third quarter proved decisive as Armagh confirmed their superiority over Roscommon to claim the Irish Daily Star National League Division 3 title.

Cork City 3 St Patrick’s Athletic 1: Cork City showed that they won’t go down in this title race without a fight as they moved to within five points of champions Dundalk at the top of the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division after a comfortable victory over St Patrick’s Athletic at Turner’s Cross last night.

Dundalk 4 St Patrick’s Athletic 1: Dundalk took a massive step towards retaining the league title by moving 10 points clear at the top of the table following a demolition job on St Patrick’s Athletic at Oriel Park last night. 

The brother of a man murdered eight years ago was sentenced to two weeks in prison for contempt of court during an eviction hearing at the Circuit Court in Trim.

Sarah Walker remembers her family’s friendship with the late artist Patrick Scott

Four Dublin men have been charged at the Special Criminal Court with the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly.

A retired Catholic bishop has admitted mistakes after a watchdog found opportunities to stop dangerous paedophile priests were consistently missed.

A Co Monaghan man charged with IRA membership and firearms offensives has been further charged with the possession of shotgun cartridges.

Members of the Occupy Dame Street protest movement have travelled to the former Dublin home of Brendan and Asta Kelly to pledge support for the couple.

A Dublin man found in possession of three handguns at his home last February has been sentenced to seven years at the Special Criminal Court.

IRELAND’S U19’s slipped to a comprehensive defeat against Serbia in Belgrade last night in the first of this week’s friendly away games.

A Crumlin man was jailed for three years by the Special Criminal Court today for threatening to kill a security man at a popular Dublin night spot over two years ago.

The US Coast Guard has routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons of toxic chemical a day to break up oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico despite a federal directive that the chemicals be used only rarely on surface waters, congressional investigators said after examining BP and government documents.

Two US congressmen reviewing contingency plans of five major oil companies in the event of another spill say they are nearly identical – and are all unprepared.

The lawyer for an 81-year-old Roman Catholic priest who faces possible extradition to Ireland said the clergyman moved to the South Bend area of Indiana in 1990 to take a job counselling drug and alcohol abusers.

Eight leases on one of Dublin’s most prestigious shopping streets have been put up for sale as the combination of high rents and the credit crunch hits retailers.

Eight leases on one of Dublin’s most prestigious shopping streets have been put up for sale as the combination of high rents and the credit crunch hits retailers.

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan will tomorrow meet with senior US politicians as he continues his four-day fact-finding visit to the country.

MACRA NA FEIRME president Colm Markey has called on Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan to backdate the new Installation Aid Scheme to cover new entrants who set up in farming in 2006.

Opponents of oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge are calling on the new Democratic Congress to make a drilling ban permanent.

MACRA na Feirme claimed yesterday the Department of Agriculture and Food’s interpretation of what constitutes soiled water under the nitrates directive has no scientific basis and is totally flawed.

THE Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) national council approved the new national agreement Towards 2016 at a special meeting in Limerick.

MORE people have been killed on the country’s roads in the past nine years than have lost their lives during the North’s Troubles.

MACRA na Feirme has welcomed the announcement by Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan that up to 30% of milk quota will be set aside for young farmers under the new regime.

A NEW milk quota trading system was announced by Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan at the ploughing championships in Grangeford, Co Carlow yesterday.

MARKET power is the biggest issue facing farmers, it was claimed at an awards ceremony in Limerick.