O’Byrne Cup - Offaly 0-13 Louth 1-9: A late Louth rally came up short as Offaly rang in the new year with a win in Darver. 

Ruairí McSorley, who shot to internet fame in January with his reaction to a

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Commuters getting off the Dublin’s Luas where in for a bit of a surprise after being faced with a strange blue man - looking for hugs - as they disembarked yesterday.

Ruairí McSorley - messer, hero, student - has entered Irish legend status.

St Pat’s, Maghera (Derry) 1-12 Omagh CBS (Tyrone) 1-08

A judge has ordered the arrest of screen actor Gerard McSorley after he failed to turn up to court today to face a breach of the peace charge.

Derry 2-19 Wicklow 0-10

Two goals in each half saw Derry coast to an easy Ulster SHC quarter-final win over Armagh.

Armagh 1-17 Derry 4-14

Dundalk’s woeful run of Airtricity Premier League of Ireland home results continued last night, now having just one win in seven league games.

Robert Lehane’s 80th-minute header captured the Enda McGuill Cup for Cork City U19s as they beat Dundalk in a cracking final at Oriel Park.

Kildare maintained their winning run over Armagh but it took an injury time free from Siobhán Hurley to do so, and in the process garner the League Division 3 camogie title on a 1-8 to 0-10 scoreline.

Kildare maintained their winning run over Armagh, but it took an injury time free from Siobhan Hurley to do so.

Armagh 3-13 Westmeath 3-5

A SCHOOL principal will today resume her High Court battle with Education Minister Ruairi Quinn after he sought to dismiss her on the strength of a controversial and costly report into her running of a Kilkenny school.

THE Education Minister has been restrained by the High Court from sacking Catherine McSorley from her position of principal of Kilkenny City Vocational School on the grounds she is “unfit for office”.

The principal of a Kilkenny school who was declared 'unfit for office' has secured a temporary High Court order stopping the Education Minister from dismissing her.

HOW long does it take to get anything done around here? When does the means justify the means? Why is this country so wedded to process?

FOR the seventh successive summer the principal of Kilkenny City Vocational School saw off her Leaving Certificate students under a dark cloud.

THE High Court has ruled two publicans had no duty of care to an elderly man whom they had served drink prior to his death in a crash in which one other person was killed.

McDermottroe has adapted his own stage play for the screen, with mixed results but with an ultimate plus sign to hang against it, thanks largely to the fine acting of the cast in all the roles.

Two publicans who served alcoholic beverages to a man who was one of two people killed in a horrific road traffic accident shortly after he drove home from the pub acted in a negligent manner, it was claimed before the High Court today.

A planned memorial to victims of the Omagh bomb atrocity was hit by a new row today.

AN inquiry set up to probe a number of allegations against a secondary school principal is still continuing almost a year after being set up.

THE report of an inquiry into the performance of a Kilkenny second-level school principal’s performance is expected to be delivered to Education Minister Mary Hanafin before the end of the year.

AN inquiry into the performance of a secondary school principal in Kilkenny is to be held in the coming months.

A SCHOOL principal is to be the subject of an inquiry after Education Minister Mary Hanafin ruled that the woman could not be suspended by County Kilkenny Vocational Education Committee (VEC).

TEENAGERS have been paid to attend a second level school in Kilkenny, an independent inquiry has found.

Gerard McSorley, who played the role of Michael Gallagher in Omagh, won the award for best actor at the Irish Film and Television Awards in Dublin last night.

Graphic film drama Omagh and sentimental comedy Inside I’m Dancing top a bill of international cinema successes aiming for glory at Ireland’s premier awards show next weekend.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has agreed to a meeting with the father of a boy killed in the Omagh bombing after months of pressure, it was confirmed tonight.

Jackie Kennedy considered asking her husband’s brother Robert to bring up their young children following the American president’s assassination in 1963, it was claimed today.

AFTER a morning in front of the television roaring on the Irish rugby squad, sports fans engaged in a very different pursuit for the afternoon yesterday.

Jackie Kennedy was so distraught following her husband’s assassination that she told a priest she wanted to commit suicide, according to a new book.

IRISH aid agencies are stepping up their presence on the borders of Iraq, anticipating a major humanitarian crisis there when war is launched and bombing begins.