The Garda Síochána “failed in its duty” in not investigating two historical cases of child sexual abuse, subsequently the subject of the Cloyne report, the Garda Ombudsman has found.

Stevie Wonder has welcomed his ninth child at the age of 64.

The indoor athletics season has begun and it will culminate in the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland in early March.

The victory of Was in yesterday’s Investec Oaks at Epsom extended Aidan O’Brien’s utter domination of this year’s English Classics and the market for today’s Derby suggests he’ll bring that tally to four from four courtesy of Newmarket 2000 Guineas winner Camelot.

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The disagreement between Donegal manager Jim McGuinness and axed defender Kevin Cassidy is such that the All-Star feels that he has played his last inter-county game.

People around the globe stopped to remember the victims of the September 11 attack today, falling silent to mark the exact moment a decade ago that terrorists struck.

THE BBC Northern Ireland website reeled in the years for Donegal this past week.

A PARISH priest admitted abusing three children for a number of years and when he was younger, he said fondled up to six girls.

KEVIN CASSIDY’S last outing for Donegal in championship football was drawn out like a funeral procession with the same unavoidable conclusion.

IN a sport as directly confrontational as rugby, on a pitch that has really levelled out physically since the advent of the professional era, more and more nowadays at the top level it’s the psychological battles that can end up deciding the outcome of the war.

Two New Zealand men have been found guilty of murdering a three-year-old girl after horrific abuse that included spinning her in a hot clothes dryer.

The cast of sleeper hit My Fat Big Greek Wedding have united to demand a larger share of the movie's mega profits.

Friends star Matthew Perry likes to play poker and considers himself a pretty good player.