DAVID FREEMAN struck twice in a minute to end Mervue’s brave challenge as Drogheda booked their place in round four of the FAI Cup.

AN own-goal by skipper-for-the-night Stephen Quigley’s settled this dour contest at Hunky Dorys Park as Bray Wanderers continued their remarkable Premier Division run.

DROGHEDA UNITED recorded their first win of the season to climb off the foot of the table in the battle of the basement clubs in Terryland Park last night.

Drogheda United 0 Bohemians 1

Drogheda United are still looking for their first win of the league campaign and will be hoping to put that right when they take on Bray Wanderers at the Carlisle Grounds, kick-off 7.45pm.

DROGHEDA United are still waiting for their first league win of the season after Sean Kelly’s second-half strike rescued a point for Galway at Hunky Dorys Park last night.

CHAMPIONS Shamrock Rovers put bottom club Drogheda to the sword with an utterly convincing performance at Hunky Dorys Park last night.

JOHN DILLON scored in each half as Sligo Rovers registered their first home win of the season at the Showgrounds last night.

Two men have failed in their appeal against their convictions for membership of the INLA linked to a tiger kidnapping plot in Cork.

CILLIAN MORRISON struck late to give UCD a victory they just about deserved against Mick Cooke’s new charges at Hunky Dory’s Park.

ONE-NIL to the Monaghan – you could almost set it to music but just don’t sing it on Leeside.

PADRAIG AMOND’S two-goal blast scuppered Shamrock Rovers’ dream of a domestic treble in last night’s cracking EA Sports Cup semi-final at The Showgrounds.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the trial of three men accused of INLA membership who were arrested during a garda investigation into a plot to kidnap a Cork businessman.

A Strabane man accused of INLA membership was shot in the back by the INLA and is confined to a wheelchair as a result, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard today.

One of three men accused of INLA membership told gardaí that he did not know two men who last month pleaded guilty to membership of the same organisation, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The trial at the Special Criminal Court of three men accused of INLA membership has heard that the INLA planned to kidnap a Cork businessman last year.

A Tyrone man was arrested in Cork last year by a detective who suspected him of INLA membership, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The trial at the Special Criminal Court of four men accused of INLA membership has heard that three knives, duct-tape and cable ties were found in the coal-shed of a house that two of the accused men had entered.

MONAGHAN United eased to their third successive win in the eircom League First Division when they dominated a lifeless Athlone Town at Kingspan Century Park.

Five men arrested in Cork in February and charged with INLA membership were remanded on bail at the Special Criminal Court today.

The Special Criminal Court has remanded five men in custody today after they were charged with being members of the INLA.

THE McCrossan family are among Ireland’s new patriots (Irish Examiner, March 8).

AN original copy of the Proclamation of Independence picked up in O’Connell Street in 1916 has been donated to the National Museum of Ireland.

The National Museum of Ireland has announced it has acquired an original copy of the 1916 Proclamation of Independence.

Antrim's bid to reach a first Ulster Football Championship final in 33 years came unstuck at Casement Park, where Tyrone's poise and class triumphed over honest endeavour.

Armagh 2-13 Tyrone 0-16