Derek Kavanagh says he has often had to explain the structure of the GAA Championship to work colleagues from other countries before walking away thinking: ‘Why don’t we just change it?’

Danny Morrison is a fine writer. He is also ‘a good republican’ as Gerry Adams might say. He is not much of an historian. (Irish Examiner, Monday 11).

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Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has slammed as horrifying and disgusting the suspected torching of an Orange hall in Donegal – the second such attack within weeks.

Still sporting the bloodstains from battle, Jim McGuinness emerged to the mouth of the tunnel of St Tiernach’s Park with the Anglo-Celt Cup swinging by his side.

Derry look to carry impressive league form into championship meeting with old rivals Donegal tomorrow.

The Public Accounts Committee will meet today to discuss its next move in the penalty points whistleblower controversy, as the chairman defends its actions.

The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee John McGuinness faced a grilling by TDs today over the recent controversy surrounding his past as a junior minister.

Clapping teams through a guard of honour, onto or off a gaelic pitch, is something very strange. While our rugby counterparts do it on a regular basis, it always looks out of place to me on a GAA pitch.

A Lithuanian construction worker who viciously beat and attempted to rape an 18-year-old student as she walked home after drinking with friends has been given an eight year sentence.

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee John McGuinness says he has no intention of stepping aside from the role during an examination of Ireland's banking collapse.

Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has said any inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings should include the role of Martin McGuinness.

The Northern Ireland Director of Public Prosecutions was not involved in the police decision to launch a murder investigation into the Bloody Sunday killings, his office said today.

Any decision for Sinn Féin members to meet the Queen will be made on whether it would enhance the peace process or damage it, the party said.

The game needed a dramatic intervention from somebody and Tommy Freeman was the man to provide it.

The High Court has finalised the basis on which a British national, who is wanted in connection with a conspiracy to import cocaine and cannabis worth millions of pounds into the United Kingdom, can appeal his extradition to the Supreme Court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of three Northern Ireland men appealing against their convictions for membership of the IRA.

The widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe, who was shot dead in an attempted robbery, has accused Martin McGuinness of refusing to assist gardaí in catching the killers of those who died serving the state.

FINE GAEL MEP Mairéad McGuinness has announced her intention to seek her party’s nomination for president in the October election.

The North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has described those who murdered Constable Kerr as "enemies of peace".

The Ulster Unionists and the SDLP have failed to challenge the British government over the cuts being imposed on Stormont, Martin McGuinness has said.

Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has revealed he had considered taking the flight which crashed at Cork Airport today.

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness today insisted his party was ready to take the reins south of the border.

Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionists will resume talks tomorrow on devolving policing powers to Stormont after a weekend that saw both party leaders express hopes a deal could be done.

The revelations about Peter Robinson’s wife Iris have indirectly led to a political first for a Democratic Unionist leader – a handshake with Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.

ADO McGuiness is looking for Toufan Express to get the stable’s first Galway Festival winner next week.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone has claimed at a Belfast court that his incursion at Stormont two years ago saved the peace process.

Progress made in the North over the past ten years has been unimaginable, US president George Bush said today.

THE rapidly improving Arthur Moore-trained Mansony continued his surge to the top when landing the Grade 1 Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase at Leopardstown yesterday.

It could have been a humdrum day in any parliament, with low-key speeches in a hushed, panelled and pillared room.

Sinn Féin’s chief negotiator Martin McGuinness said today that he will not be deterred by the attempt on his life at Stormont yesterday.

Hard-line republicans who have forced Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to step up their personal security are trying to undermine power-sharing plans for the North, Peter Hain said today.

U2 former stylist Lola Cashman yesterday claimed in the High Court Bono plonked his stetson hat on her head after the last gig in the US after she asked him for it.

Sinn Féin’s Chief Negotiator Martin McGuiness said he believed Ireland is a country on the move.

Sinn Fein's Ard Comhairle meets in Dublin today to discuss the peace process and whether to continue its partial involvement in the Stormont assembly.

Civic leaders in a town in the North were tonight urged to come together and make a stand against sectarianism in the wake of the murder of a 14-year-old Catholic schoolboy.

DUP leader Rev Ian Paisley said today it will take a miracle for all parties to meet the November 24 deadline for the restoration of the Northern Assembly.

The bitter political row between Sinn Féin and the SDLP over British proposals dealing with the so-called "On The Runs" has deepened after renewed criticism from Martin McGuinness.

THE Reverend Ian Paisley was challenged by Sinn Féin yesterday to prove whether he was a man of his word.

Sinn Féin’s Washington representative Rita O’Hare has been refused permission to visit America next week.

An ex-IRA man who claimed Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuiness handed out nail bombs on the morning of Bloody Sunday was branded a liar today by his former father-in-law.

Television journalist Mairead Mc Guinness, and sitting MEP Avril Doyle will be Fine Gael candidates in the East electoral area in the forthcoming European elections.

Sinn Fein's chief negotiator Martin McGuinness says unionists never had any intention of contesting elections in the North.

Gerry Adams has emerged from talks with British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, at Downing Street saying the 80 minute meeting with the Prime Minister was ``positive''.