A bumper weekend of racing is in store in Cork as the 2017 Irish Rowing Championships take place at the National Rowing Centre from tomorrow through to Sunday. 

A truck driver has been given a six year suspended sentence for importing over half a million euro worth of cannabis herb into Ireland.

A group of vocal protesters campaigning against banks and house repossessions has forced the cancellation of a large-scale property auction in Dublin.

Sparta Maestro put on yet another master class at Shelbourne Park on Saturday night as he equalled his own track record when taking the final of the Billy Mulvaney Jnr and Snr Memorial 600.

SHELBOURNE Park is often a quiet place in the closing weeks of September as punters suffer from what is commonly referred to as the “Derby hangover”.

HOT favourites Skryne were made battle all the way by well-organised Castletown in a highly competitive Leinster club senior football quarter-final clash at Navan’s Páirc Tailteann.

A STORMING finish at Páirc Tailteann – albeit after a third quarter slump – saved Skryne’s blushes and booked them a Leinster club SFC quarter-final spot.

CHANGES were made to the internal report into the death during childbirth of Garda Tania McCabe and her baby at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital two years ago after the manager of the HSE’s acute hospitals in the North East said he had “issues” with “nuances” in it.

A LITTLE more than eight-and-a-half years ago, 19-year-old Brian Mulvaney was on his way home after a night out in Templeogue, south Dublin, when he was set upon by a group of young men and beaten and kicked to death.

A teenager who several times threatened to kill a young woman while subjecting her to an orgy of sexual abuse has been sent to Trinity House for three-and-a-half years.

GARDA representatives yesterday said there was a serious problem with current bail practices and backed Government plans to review the area.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has agreed to conduct research into bail practices following the disclosure that a quarter of people who met violent deaths last year were killed by offenders out on bail at the time.

Victims' families today expressed anger at the huge number of people killed by offenders out on bail.

People who commit acts of extreme violence after consuming drink and drugs will be made accountable for their actions in the courts, a High Court judge warned today.

A Dublin man has been jailed for 10 years for the manslaughter of 19 year-old Brian Mulvaney, who was beaten to death in a south Dublin suburb in March 2000.

An 18 year-old man who was convicted in April of the manslaughter of Brian Mulvaney today pleaded guilty to charges arising from two other assaults he carried out on the same night.

Niall Maguire/Paul McLaughlin in their Subaru WRC have won the Sligo Rally, the seventh round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship and can now clinch the series on the next round in Co Tipperary.

The trial of three young men accused of murdering a 19 year-old Dublin man collapsed today at the Central Criminal Court.

A murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court today heard that one of the three co-accused was "getting on like a house on fire" with the 19 year-old victim at a friend’s party in the hours before the killing.

The president of the Irish Security Industry Association has criticised the Minister for Justice over his failure to push the Private Security Services Bill through the Oireachtas.

Leeds United football club today signed a deal to provide the first ever football club-specific WAP mobile phone.