With all eyes on our rugby heroes as the World Cup draws near, Arlene Harris meets other sportsmen and women who fly the flag for Ireland but remain relatively unknown

While there was disappointment for East Cork in the Private Home Care Ladies Inter-Club Championships at Monkstown yesterday when they lost in the finals of the Minor and Intermediate Cups, there was glory for Killarney in the Senior Foursomes and for Wicklow and Edenmore, the clubs who put paid to East Cork’s hopes of a famous treble, in the other two finals decided on another day at the superbly presented Co Cork course.

The women of Wicklow golf club are this evening celebrating an All Ireland victory that has eluded them for 110 years.

One of the country’s top hurling coaches who took his own life was “lonely” following the breakdown of his marriage a year earlier, an inquest heard yesterday.

WITH regard to the report headlined ‘ICTU defers abortion motion’ (July 9), I am at a loss to see why such a motion was proposed in the first place and am very glad it was thrown out.

A HEALTH expert has come up with a novel idea to tackle the country’s expanding childhood obesity problem — pay children to stay healthy.

PAT SMULLEN continued his determined quest to regain the Jockeys Championship when partnering Graceful Star to victory in the opening two-year-old fillies maiden at Roscommon yesterday.

A 24-year-old Dublin man has been jailed for life for the murder of his teenage girlfriend in a derelict house in Ballsbridge in Dublin last year.

Closing speeches concluded at the Central Criminal Court today in the trial of a 24-year-old Dublin man accused of murdering his 17-year-old girlfriend.

A Dublin man on trial for the murder of his 17 year-old girlfriend told gardaí he strangled her during a row after the couple had taken the drug Rohypnol and smoked hash.

A 24 year-old Dublin man who alerted gardai to a "grizzly scene" where his homeless teenage girlfriend had been “viciously strangled” was later arrested and charged with her murder, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A BOOK of remembrance listing the names of the homeless who have died on the streets is being compiled.

A 23-year-old man appeared before Dublin District Court this morning charged in connection with the death of a teenage girl in a derelict house in Dublin last month.

Gardai have named the woman who was killed in south Dublin yesterday.