The GAA is not only about identity of course, but the first Ulster Club title for the hardest of hardcore GAA clubs in Kilcoo Eoghan Rúa will forever sustain this miniscule community of shepherds in a hollow of the Mourne mountains.

Derrygonnelly will have a long winter to wonder how they were so wasteful as Kilcoo, who did more with less possession, took a big step towards an elusive first AIB Ulster club title.

Inventor James Dyson’s technology empire more than doubled earnings last year after strong demand for its bagless vacuum cleaners and new launches, figures revealed today.

Bagless vacuum cleaner pioneer James Dyson picked up a £59m (€84.7m) salary and dividend payout last year after seeing profits soar by nearly a fifth, it emerged today.

THE findings of a long-awaited garda inquiry into the fatal shooting of a young Irish soldier in Lebanon was finally revealed to his family last night.