Latest: Garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe has testified that former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan was "obsessed" with him and told the former Garda press secretary to “bury” him, writes Gerard Cunningham.

Tony Browne, the 1998 hurler of the year, believes that this year’s All-Ireland final will be won with a sweeper.

Police in England broke up an underground rave with a difference after a party with lights and a sound system started on a Tube train.

Even the players Alex Ferguson offloaded from Manchester United retained their loyalty to the legendary Scot as the club’s most famous manager illustrated last night in a story he told about John O’Shea.

Turkish police suspect militants planned New Year’s Eve attacks

A FRESH voice has emerged on the Irish music landscape. It takes the shape of Zimbabwean MC, God Knows, and his Irish producer, MynameisJohn, and their remarkable debut album, Rusangano/Family.

Former Fianna Fáil TD Pat Carey, who last month revealed at the age of 67 that he is gay, has urged committed Catholics to support the marriage equality referendum as they have been “the torch-bearers for human rights on other issues”.

Star Wars director JJ Abrams praised actor Domhnall Gleeson as “a joy” to work with in the upcoming Star Wars — The Force Awakens, which hits cinemas this December.

The Everyman Sunday Songbook marks its 10th anniversary. Colette Sheridan reports.

A chance trip to the Basilica of St Paul in Rome has led to a changed spelling of Mayo’s county grounds.

It was the kind of announcement with which Aunt Pippa’s taut tush could never compete.

The recent death of his dad gave 8-year-old Kieran Thomas all the impetus he needed to carry him across the finish line and into the waiting arms of his mother at yesterday’s Cork City Marathon.

The Australian radio show that aired a prank call involving the hospital that treated the Duchess of Cambridge has been cancelled, reports say.

The Australian radio show that aired a prank call involving the hospital that treated the Duchess of Cambridge has been cancelled, according to reports.

A man with a giant heart, Páidí Ó Sé is an irreplaceable loss in Ard a’ Bhothair, writes Diarmuid O’Flynn

Lar Corbett last night gave strong signals that he will again play for Tipperary in 2013.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan was booed by crowds in his home constituency last night as he took to the stage to welcome home the Kilkenny senior hurlers.

There was embarrassment for Environment Minister Phil Hogan when he was booed at last night’s All-Ireland homecoming in Kilkenny — in the heart of his own constituency.

Normally, the distance from the Burlington Hotel to Glenswilly is 260 kilometres or so — but this was no normal week in Donegal.

China-based founder and chief executive of PCH International, Liam Casey, will be among the speakers at the Cork Chamber of Commerce 2012 business conference.

Alesha Dixon says her friends consider her to be weird because she is happy to be single.

A British teacher has quit his job to pursue a hip-hop career after beating one of his students in a rap battle.

LAST YEAR'S epic showdown marked Tipperary’s Declan Fanning and Kilkenny’s Martin Comerford last game. Speaking separately, they recollect two of the greatest finals in the history of the game.

MORE INNOCENT times. On the day Fianna Fáil launched its 2002 election campaign, PJ Mara walked into the party’s press conference in the Shelbourne Hotel and announced: “It’s showtime.”

GRAEME McDOWELL has joined the world’s top ten for the first time in his career after his hard-earned victory in the Andalucia Masters at Valderrama.

A 10-YEAR strategy to enhance life for about 500 inhabitants on the seven islands off West Cork has been launched.

BOWLING is a sport rarely accused of snobbery, but David Murphy may generate a coterie of purists if he continues to bowl at the level he displayed in Sunday’s King of the Roads final.

Limerick 4-10 Louth 3-8

Like those fortunate voters in the US, I look forward to change that we can believe in at our next general election.

Amir Khan was showered with superlatives by legendary five-time world champion Sugar Ray Leonard after making a successful American television debut at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.

THE first sod on a road tunnel under the Shannon — the biggest engineering project ever undertaken in the mid-west — will be turned in Limerick today by Transport Minister Martin Cullen.

A court today turned down an appeal by the DPP against the leniency of prison sentences given to two Dublin men who were jailed for an intended Continuity IRA pipe bomb attack on the city's northside.

STATE Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy was yesterday afternoon quizzed by Blaise O’Carroll SC, defending, on her evidence of the day before.

Diarmuid O'Flynn meets Liam Doyle, the Clare wing-back, and Michael Cleary a sharp-shooting wing-forward for Tipperary.

HAVING read the article headlined ‘Cork 2005’s exclusion of sculptor’s legacy condemned’ (Irish Examiner, April 19), I agree with Colm Murphy about the omission of his father’s work and I wish to point out that my father, MC Hutson, RHA, another Cork artist, has also been excluded.

Rapper DMX will perform the first of his rescheduled Irish dates at the Ambassador Theatre in Dublin tonight.

TELEVISION interviews with Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr were shown to the jury at their Old Bailey trial yesterday.

Television interviews with Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr were shown to the jury at their Old Bailey trial today.

Justin Timberlake was the big winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards but it was host Christina Aguilera who stole the show.

I THINK the abuse of children in any form is one of the worst crimes there is.