Eoghan Long won the 36-hole Douglas Senior Scratch Cup on Sunday.

Denise McCormack, Aidan O’Mahony and Aoibhín Garrihy have made it through to the final of Dancing With The Stars. Tune into RTÉ One at 6.30pm on Sunday to find out who wins the trophy.

Tommy Barker gets lost in a large suburban house with a beautiful garden, carports, and oh, and the house isn’t bad either.

175 new jobs have been announced for County Galway.

Gardaí said they are seriously concerned for a Meath man who has been missing for five days.

A statement purporting to represent the members of Sinn Féin’s Cobh cumann claimed last night that 54 members had resigned in protest at the sanctioning of two party councillors in the region.

Builders and developers who worked through the seven years of property market implosion and slump are beginning to gear up for a return to construction in cities like Dublin, Galway and Cork.

A new residential development in Ballymoneen, Knocknacarra in Galway is set to create 200 jobs.

From smelly participants to a special bug-breeding farm, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes on I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, writes Susan Griffin.

Two farmers in dispute over a right of way were told their behaviour amounted to “shocking rubbish” by a judge who convicted one of them for assault.

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“This is a set-up from start to finish,” a judge said as he dismissed a compensation case taken by six people arising out of alleged injuries from a car crash in Macroom in 2009.

Former Kerry hurling trainer Tom Howard has cited a lack of commitment by some players as the reason for his sudden departure.

In the early morning sun at Spancilhill Horse Fair, business is brisk and north Clare farmer and matchmaker Willie Daly is a happy man.

The brother of a cystic fibrosis boy who died on his fifth birthday is to run the New York City marathon to raise funds for a much needed inpatient facility for children with the condition.

Scrap dealers have been urged to look out for a rare and historic church bell, stolen in Co Kerry, being offered for sale.

NOT quite the MGM Grand or Madison Square Garden but Cork’s footballers battered each other into submission at a charity boxing night in the Rochestown Park Hotel on Saturday night.

THE Cork senior footballers return to action tonight but not on the playing field – the Leesiders are to participate in a charity boxing tournament in the Rochestown Park Hotel.

CORK footballers are back in the limelight tomorrow night at a charity boxing show at the Rochestown Park Hotel.

AN INSPIRED performance by Colm Egan, brother of Westlife’s Cian, was not enough for Sligo Grammar at the Sportsgrounds yesterday.

UNIONIST representatives will join other guest speakers, including hurling legend Donal Óg Cusack and musician Peadar O Riada, at a special forum to discuss building a better Ireland.

THE Central Bank has made the first appointments to its new Risk Advisers Panel – the vehicle announced earlier this year to assess risk management standards at the main banks.

Meath manager Eamonn O'Brien has made two changes to his side for Sunday's Leinster SFC semi-final against Dublin at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

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A Westmeath man and former Irish solider who raped a 12-year-old girl twice a week for four years has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.

WITH time almost up in Sunday’s Kerry SFC final it seemed if Jack O’Connor’s tenure as Kerins O'Rahillys manager was to end in triumph.

The GAA have announced the squads which have been selected for the U21 and senior hurling/shinty internationals against Scotland on Saturday next, October 18.

Detectives who discovered the dismembered corpse of a British teenager in a suitcase in Brazil were today searching for her remaining body parts.

A man who threw bricks at gardai during the 2006 'Love Ulster' riot has been jailed for 18 months for violent disorder by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A car resembling the one belonging to a woman whose husband is on trial at the Central Criminal Court for her murder was seen travelling away from the Quays in Waterford in the early hours of the day she was reported missing.

WHAT they lack in design finesse from the front, the big family homes in Cork’s Janeville make up for in sheer property punch.

THE killing of a child always sends a shiver down the spine but the death of a child at the hands of a parent is seen by many as the worst kind of killing.

FOURTH round sessions of the TCH All-Ireland School Quiz at CBS, Roscommon resulted in wins for the host school and St Joseph’s College, Galway.

PROPOSALS to introduce a two-tier hurling championship at senior level in Tipperary for 2004 have stirred up a hornet’s nest among a number of the county’s leading clubs.

POPULAR Tipperary GAA official Liz Howard was fighting for her sporting career last night.

AN American soldier was shot in the head as he waited in line to buy a soft drink at Baghdad University yesterday, while American forces killed two insurgents who charged an army post in a truck, firing a rocket-propelled grenade.

The Chairman of the Mid Tipperary GAA Board Michael Burke has thrown his hat into the ring for the County Chair position which will be vacated by its present incumbent Con Hogan in December.

NICKY ENGLISH’S successor as manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team will not be appointed for several weeks.

Glowing tributes were paid to former Tipperary senior hurling boss Nicky English at the monthly meeting of the County GAA Board after it was announced by Chairman Con Hogan that he was standing down.