Trim Celtic ladies soccer club have always been regular participants in the Meath Community Games finals.

Ever since assuming the role of general vice-president in 1993, Carmel Grealy is to be found in the same location at the Community Games year in, year out — sitting patiently behind the main desk at reception, lending a hand to whoever requires assistance.

Forty-five years since its maiden outing, the HSE Community Games continues to capture the imagination of the Irish sporting public.

The State paid out more than €655m over 10 years to firms and individuals providing accommodation for asylum seekers.

LIFE is a lottery, they say, and you certainly don’t get to pick your parents.

MOSNEY asylum seekers have been told they must leave the centre by tomorrow.

REVELATIONS regarding Fianna Fáil’s handling of excessive donations has put the accounting system for its multi-million euro income stream under scrutiny.

A SMILING Roisin McGettigan last night compared the Beijing Olympic experience to her Community Games career after securing a place in tomorrow’s 3000 metre steeplechase final (2.30pm, Irish)

LAST week I wrote a column about a Government proposal to introduce a network of detention centres for asylum seekers.

THE cost of providing accommodation to asylum-seekers rose to €83.6 million last year, a 9% increase on the 2003 figure of €76.5m.

DR MOSNEY ASYLUM, the medic who appeared to receive €4,940 for treating asylum seekers, is fictional and so was the payment made to him.

Thousands of young athletes from all over the country will converge on Mosney this weekend for National Finals of the ESB Community Games.

The Drogheda United Supporters Club has moved to set up talks with club chairman Vincent Hoey in relation to the shock news that ticket prices for the coming season have been doubled.

GPs are unable to treat refugees or asylum seekers because they cannot cope with the heavy workload, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) said yesterday.

The community games chairman Gerry Davenport has admitted there may be no venue for their national finals in the future.

THE Government's plan to build a multi-million euro national stadium while many sports facilities nationwide are in a rundown state has been lashed by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny.