Antrim’s Derek McGarrity has secured his fifth Tour of Sperrins Rally win to extend his lead in the McGrady Insurance Northern Ireland Rally Championship.

Tipperary U21 football selector Michael McGeehan has issued glowing praise for the leadership qualities of team captain Colin O’Riordan ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final meeting with Dublin.

FA Cup Fourth Round Replay

Richard Fitzpatrick spent some time with acclaimed bird expert, Anthony McGeehan and was left shocked at how little he knew about our feathered friends

FA Cup Fourth Round

Ballinderry have described proposed suspensions for 13 players and supporters involved in a brawl which marred the club’s Derry SFC final defeat as "severe".

Waterford football captain Shane Briggs insists they will join Limerick, Tipperary and Clare in walking away from the 2015 Munster championship if the seeded draw remains in place.

The backdrop is often very different to the landscape you see.

As born winners, Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane will dig deep to turn around Ireland’s fortunes — which is good news for prospective new talent.

ALL shopping records were broken in Dublin in the run-up to Christmas 1954. In the midst of the hectic shopping bonanza, however, there was alarm when baby Patrick Berrigan was kidnapped the Saturday before Christmas.

The family of a teacher killed by a dangerous driver who had downed six pints of beer asked a coroner not to say her death was as a result of a road accident.

MUNSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL:

The penultimate round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship and the final round of the CarryduffForklift Northern Ireland Rally Championship dovetail on tomorrow’s Omagh-based McKelvey Bushwhacker Rally that has attracted 100 entries.

In a close finish to the Modern Tyres Mourne Rally, round five of the Carryduff Forklifts Northern Ireland Rally Championship, Drew Stewart (Ford Escort) took a 12-second victory over the Mitsubishi of Andrew Stewart.

FIVE times Irish Tarmac rally champion, Eugene Donnelly will make a dramatic return to the series behind the wheel of a Derek McGeehan run MINI WRC in next Month’s Safety Direct Galway International Rally.

THIS week, I will diverge from reports of local events in nature, the marvellous humpback whale displays in Wexford, and the shoals of sprats in the seas off west Cork, to tell readers about a book I’ve greatly enjoyed called Birding from the Hip: A Sound Approach Anthology.

British and Irish Lions boss Ian McGeechan has made wholesale changes for Saturday's final Test against world champions South Africa.

AN OIREACHTAS committee is to seek an independent review of the cases of women who underwent a controversial procedure during childbirth which left them with a litany of lasting health problems.

A CHEF whose ear was bitten off during a late-night attack in a Donegal chipper said yesterday his attacker is likely to be out of prison after a year.

WASPS coach Ian McGeechan believes his side are learning how to “win ugly” after they hung on for victory in their opening Heineken Cup game against Castres at Adams Park.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan believes forward Simon Taylor has surpassed the level of fitness he enjoyed even before his hand injury in November.