Paddy Power has, as expected, promoted from within to succeed outgoing chief executive, Patrick Kennedy.

The insertion of an anti-discrimination clause into the GAA's Official Guide is the next step in the association's fight against racism, according to Sport Against Racism Ireland's Ken McCue

Ireland U21 manager Noel King may have delivered a glowing epitaph of Giovanni Trapattoni’s impact but his deputy, Harry McCue, yesterday laid bare the Italian’s disinterest in any tier beneath the senior fold.

THERE are weekly incidents of racial abuse in Irish sports, an anti-racism campaigner has claimed.

The death of ex-Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi paves the way for the settlement of legal claims by IRA victims in the North, the DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson has said.

AN agreement by Libyan leader colonel Gaddafi to pay IRA victims billions of pounds for his role in supplying the Provos with arms and explosives has been put in jeopardy by the current unrest in the country.

WHEN the thin red line of Shelbourne players file out of the Dalymount Park tunnel before they face neighbours Bohemians in an FAI Cup tie this evening, it will evoke a time when cash slushed around domestic football.

LIBYA will resist demands for compensation over attacks by the IRA, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said yesterday as the fall-out from the Lockerbie bomber’s release continues.

THE row over Britain’s relations with Libya has taken a new turn as Gordon Brown denied he had shied away from pressing Tripoli to compensate families of IRA victims who say Libya supplied the guerrillas with arms.

Gordon Brown declined to press Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for compensation for IRA bomb victims out of concern that a ministerial intervention might upset relations with Libya, it emerged today.

A Northern Irish company specialising in the manufacture and installation of interiors to the retail and leisure sectors is celebrating the award of a new contract in Tralee, Co Kerry.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell told lawyers representing the families of the victims of the Omagh bombing that the Government was “willing” to let gardaí testify in a 14 million legal action they are taking against five men they alleged were involved in the outrage.

OMAGH bomb victims' relatives are meeting their lawyers this week to ensure the legal action against the men suspected of the atrocity was on course.

Omagh bomb victims’ relatives were meeting their lawyers this week to ensure the legal action against the men suspected of the atrocity was on course.

SHAMROCK ROVERS will crank up their pursuit of Eircom League leaders Bohemians this weekend when matches against Bray Wanderers and Derry City will give them the chance to move to second in the table.

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WRITS were served yesterday on three prisoners inside Portlaoise jail and two men in Dundalk in connection with the 1998 Omagh bomb outrage.

A strong earthquake struck eastern Australia on Saturday, toppling chimneys and causing temporary power cuts.