Na Piarsaigh manager Shane O’Neill said the club’s defeat by Loughgiel of Antrim in the 2011 All-Ireland club semi-final had forewarned them about Northern teams.

Ireland’s Lorraine Regan finished ninth in the F56 javelin event at the Paralympic Athletics World Championships in Doha yesterday.

Michael McKillop rounded off a successful Paralympic Athletics European Championships for Ireland in Swansea when he added the T38 1500m title to his T38 800m crown.

Michael McKillop has won Ireland's fourth gold medal at the European Paralympic Championships.

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Michael McKillop added Ireland’s second gold medal at the IPC European Championships in Swansea yesterday with a front-running victory in the T38 800m in 1:58.16.

Michael McKillop has added another title to his successful career on the track.

Jason Smyth continued his dominance at Paralympic level by powering to victory in the T12 100m in 10.78 seconds at the IPC European Championships in Swansea yesterday.

Luis Suarez’s injury. Italy training in a sauna. Leighton Baines’ reading habits.

Double gold medallists Michael McKillop and Jason Smyth have been denied the opportunity to defend their Paralympic titles in Rio.

Michael McKillop completed the middle distance double in scintillating fashion at the IPC World Championships in Lyon, yesterday.

Michael McKillop completed his expected middle-distance double at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon as Ireland secured their third gold medal of the games.

Paralympians Michael McKillop and Jason Smyth added another two golds to their impressive medal haul on a stunning day of action at the IPC Athletics World Championships at Parilly Stadium, Lyon, yesterday.

Jason Smyth and Michael McKillop completed another superb double for Irish athletics by winning their 200m and 800m finals respectively at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon.

A potato not seen since the famine is set to make a comeback, it was revealed today.

Ireland's most successful Paralympic team ever touched down tonight with 16 medals en tow, receiving a rapturous reception from the thousands of well-wishers at Dublin Airport.

Home are the heroes, a bit later than expected.

The closing ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games is taking place in London tonight.

Irish President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to Team Ireland on their outstanding performance at the London Paralympic Games.

Team Ireland athlete Michael McKillop has said securing his second gold medal at the London Paralympic Games last night was an unforgettable moment.

Winning gold was a family affair for Team Ireland runner Michael McKillop when his mother presented him with his medal in a historic moment at the Paralympics.

Very few people could win a gold medal in front of 90,000 people and feel unfulfilled but that was Michael McKillop.

Michael McKillop has just claimed his second gold medal of the London Games.

For Michael McKillop, it began with a Nutella sandwich and ended with dessert.

President Michael D Higgins is leading the tributes to members of the Irish Paralympic team on their "outstanding" medal-winning performances at the London games.

Four dreamlike weeks have slipped through London’s fingers since Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford delivered three gold medals on a never-to-be-forgotten night at the Olympic Stadium that was, inevitably, dubbed Super Saturday.

Athletes are, by their nature, a selfish breed.

The 2012 Irish Paralympic team departed for a two-week pre-Games training camp this morning with chief executive Liam Harbison claiming they were ready to better the successes achieved four years ago in Beijing.

For years they have helped promote the values of thrift in local communities but the credit union sector is fragile due to some poor lending practices in the boom and so many debtors being unable to repay loans, says Kyran Fitzgerald

A final report by the Commission on Credit Unions has recommended that the sector be restructured on a voluntary basis through amalgamations and transfers.

ONE in seven credit unions failed to keep enough reserve cash to meet emergencies and loans worth over €1 billion are in arrears.

Quinn Group has hired Talbot Hughes McKillop LLP (THM) to provide financial restructuring services to the company.

THE Irish teams for the next month’s Spar European Cross-Country Championships in Dublin are due to be announced today. But team manager, Anne Keenan-Buckley confirmed yesterday the senior men’s team will not be finalised until after Thursday.

BP shareholders registered their anger at senior directors’ pay and their connections to Royal Bank of Scotland by only narrowly passing the firm’s remuneration report today.

Ireland’s medal-winning Paralympic team got a heroes welcome tonight as they touched down on home soil clutching a haul of medals.

Irish teenager Micheal McKillop won gold in the 800m (T37 class) at Paralympic Games in Beijing today in a new Paralympic World record time of 1:59.39.

Michael McKillop set a new Paralympic world record of 2.02.13 in the final of the T37 800 meters to win his first gold and second medal of the World Championships.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES head scout, Tony Barone Jr will be among the featured speakers at the 2006 Championship Basketball Coaching Clinic in Kilkenny on August 12 and 13 as part of the Irish Basketball Academy.

AstraZeneca boss Sir Tom McKillop is under pressure to waive £1m (€1.4m) in bonuses following a string of setbacks for the drugs giant, it was reported today.

Anglo-Swedish drugs giant AstraZeneca today reported an 8% rise in profits for the last quarter, helped by sales of its new ulcer treatment Nexium and asthma drug Symbicort, the group said today.