Both acts will take to the stage of Dublin’s 3Arena on April 12 and 13.

Slaughtneil (Derry) 0-12 Kilcoo (Down) 0-9: They’ve had many great days in the last few years, but Slaughtneil had their sweetest moment yet in the Athletic Grounds yesterday, shrugging off the pressure to complete an unprecedented Ulster treble.

Police in the North are fighting more than 100 organised crime gangs, MLAs have heard.

A Garda has been sentenced to 200 hours community service for attacking a drunk man in a Santa hat during an arrest in Dublin city-centre.

Meath driver Stephen Daly became only the fifth ever driver to make a successful defence of the famed Leinster Trophy.

Mark English wrapped up his preparations for Prague 2015 by taking the Glo Health national indoor 800 meter title in Athlone I.T today.

A crunching Kieran Donaghy in the penultimate minute of normal time appeared to have provided Austin Stacks with the platform to secure extra-time only for Shane Carroll to kick the free wide.

Christopher Bradley sent a glorious winner sailing between the posts in stoppage time to give Slaughtneil their first ever Ulster Club SFC title in a dramatic and pulsating Athletic Grounds decider.

Slaughtneil 1-8 Ballinderry 0-9

All-Ireland MHC: Galway 2-20 Antrim 0-9

Police have recovered a firearm at an isolated farmhouse where a farmer and his worker were found shot dead in County Antrim.

A farmer and one of his workers have been found shot dead in an isolated farmhouse in Co Antrim.

Celtic 2 Cliftonville 0 (Celtic win 5-0 on Agg)

Cork City 0 Celtic XI 2

Goals from Mikael Lustig, Georgios Samaras and James Forrest gave Celtic a comfortable win over Cliftonville and ensured there is little chance of an upset when the Irish League side travel to Parkhead next week for the second leg of their Champions League second round qualifier.

Irish petrol station chain Maxol is set to invest €35m in the expansion of its all-Ireland service station network.

Joe Gormley’s second-half goal saw Cliftonville dump St Patrick’s Athletic out of the Setanta Sports Cup last night.

NEWS of the World reporters routinely hacked voicemails and did so because it was in the public interest, a former journalist at the paper said.

News of the World reporters routinely hacked people’s voicemails and did so because it was in the public interest, a former journalist at the now-defunct paper said today.

THE Irish edition of the News of the World will cease to exist along with its parent operation following its last run off the presses this Sunday.

AN Irish journalist whose phone may have been hacked by the News of the World after he wrote a book on Provisional IRA informer “Stakeknife” has insisted there are more victims in this country.

LAST year’s beaten Setanta Cup finalists St Pat’s bowed out at the first hurdle as they passed up more than enough chances to overturn a 3-0 first leg deficit at Richmond Park.

Cliftonville 3 St. Patrick’s Athletic 0

CELTIC manager Neil Lennon admits he was relieved to avoid another Active Nation Scottish Cup upset after dumping Berwick Rangers out in the fourth round yesterday.

THE McMullan brothers, owners of the Maxol oil company, were paid€1.7 million in dividends last year, despite pre-tax profits at the company plunging 74% to €3.5m.

Derry 4-10 London 3-12

THE IRA was almost certainly behind the highly organised robbery of £26.5 million from Northern Bank and Ted Cunningham was used by the IRA to launder at least £3m of it, it was claimed yesterday as the 60-year-old was jailed for 10 years.

A financial adviser was jailed for 10 years today for laundering cash from the notorious Northern Bank robbery.

THE assistant manager of the Northern Bank cash centre in Belfast was threatened at gunpoint and forced to play a key part in the robbery of £26.5million on December 20, 2004.

The Royal School Dungannon has been found guilty of sex discrimination against one of its senior women teachers, it was announced today.

WHOEVER carried out the £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery over four years ago also took off with a vacuum cleaner, it emerged at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

The assistant manager of the Northern Bank cash centre in Belfast described today how a man posing as a policeman called to his house late at night telling him his sister had been killed before going on to threaten the banker at gunpoint to play a key part in the crime.

THE man cleared of one of Britain’s largest bank robberies may launch legal action after branding his failed prosecution a farce.

Those behind the £26.5m (€33.5m) Northern Bank robbery were prepared to use the tactics of terrorism against innocent people whether they came from an organisation, a criminal gang or both, the judge hearing the case in Belfast said today.

"Robbing a bank is not like the movies, you do not need dynamite", the judge hearing the £26.5m (€33m) Northern Bank robbery trial said today.

The banker seized and forced to enable the £26.5m (€33.3m) Northern Bank robbery while his wife was held hostage clashed with defence counsel today at the trial of the colleague charged with the robbery.

A bank official told the Northern Bank trial today that he sent staff home early so he and a colleague could empty the vault.

THE bank official charged with the £26.5 million (€33m) Northern Bank robbery made last-minute changes to the rota of staff who had a key to the vault to put himself on duty that day.

The bank official charged with the £26.5m (€33m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast made last minute changes to the rota of staff who had a key to the vault to put himself on duty on the day, the opening day of his trial was told today.

The trial of a man accused of the £26.5m (€33.5m) Northern Bank robbery is on course to start this September, a court heard today.

Tyrone 1-6 London 2-13

A would-be-robber's attempted raid on his local post office was foiled by a customer who managed to wrestle a syringe away from his own throat and hold the man until gardai arrived, a court has heard.

HOLDERS Drogheda survived a late rally from Cliftonville to make a winning start to their Setanta Cup campaign at United Park last night.