LEADING Kerry soccer club Tralee Dynamos have moved a step closer to becoming the Kingdom’s first ever League of Ireland First Division representative.

THE church choir in Rathkeale is refusing to sing at Sunday Mass following an unholy row over unruly and scantily dressed young Traveller girls.

THE Garda’s two specialist units tasked with combating organised crime and dissident republicans are without a boss.

A GRAFFITI attack has been carried out on Rathkeale’s tree stump which people claim projects the image of Our Lady.

THE Rathkeale tree stump which some people claim projects the image of Our Lady is losing its drawing powers.

THE Rathkeale willow tree stump which people claim projects an image of Our Lady is making global headlines.

MARGARET SHERIDAN, one of the hundreds who yesterday visited the willow tree stump in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, which many claim projects the image of Our Lady, said it has worked a miracle of sorts for her husband, Dan, who is on dialysis.

GARDA Commissioner Fachtna Murphy is to create a full-time Organised Crime Unit which is set to target serious criminals.

The Garda Commissioner has announced his intention to establish a full-time specialist unit to deal with gangland crime.

LIVERPOOL shareholders are still waiting for their formal offer from the Tom Hicks-George Gillett takeover, but there has been “general acceptance” to the deal from the vast majority.

Liverpool shareholders are still waiting for their formal offer from the Tom Hicks-George Gillett takeover, but there has been “general acceptance” to the deal from the vast majority.

LIVERPOOL return to European action tonight with the club’s future once again open for debate.

Liverpool return to European action tomorrow with the club’s future once again open for debate.

The family of murdered Donegal Sinn Féin councillor Eddie Fullerton will raise demands for a public inquiry today at a long-awaited meeting with the Taoiseach.

LIVERPOOL director Noel White has resigned from the Anfield board after he admitted making comments attacking manager Rafael Benitez last week.

Two men arrested during a Garda investigation into the activities of dissident republicans were convicted by the Special Criminal Court today of membership of an illegal organisation.

AN internal investigation was underway yesterday after robbers breached security at garda headquarters, where highly-sensitive criminal files are stored.

The Football Association in England has finished interviewing contenders for the England job but no decision has yet been made.

THE search for the next England manager is nearing its climax with Martin O’Neill and Steve McClaren apparently neck-and-neck in the race to succeed Sven-Goran Eriksson.

The Football Association’s board will be presented with a shortlist of three or four candidates for the England manager’s job today.

Liverpool’s mounting debt and their failure to secure funds to finance new stadium plans came under fire from shareholders at the club’s AGM at Anfield.

Wigan manager Paul Jewell has welcomed indications that the next England boss will be British – but insists ultimately the job should go to the best candidate regardless of nationality.

A three-man team has been appointed to find Sven-Goran Eriksson’s successor as England head coach.

ENGLAND coach Sven-Goran Eriksson insists he remains “100% committed” to the England job and believes his relationship with the players “has not been damaged in any way” by revelations in a Sunday newspaper.

INDIVIDUALS linked to organised crime gangs are likely to be targeted and offered protection to turn State’s witness as a new garda task force was announced yesterday following the 18th gangland- related killing this year.

A new 50-strong specialist Garda unit is to be deployed in an attempt to contain a massive upsurge in murderous gangland violence in Dublin, it emerged today.

Two Detective Chief Superintendents have given evidence at the Special Criminal Court of their beliefs that three men accused of being Real IRA members were members of an illegal organisation.

THE family of a woman who died mysteriously in 2003 said they were “delighted” following a meeting with senior gardaí last Friday.

Two years after Mary Reid’s mysterious death, her family still fights for the truth, writes John Breslin.

The Donegal publican framed for a murder that never was today hit out at a decision to transfer five gardaí named in damning Morris Tribunal reports to Dublin.

GARDAÍ were last night awaiting the results of separate tests before deciding upon the course of two investigations which were launched after the discovery of two bodies over the weekend.

DUBLIN CITY manager John Gill has resigned following Friday night’s FAI Carlsberg Cup defeat at the hands of Monaghan United, with head coach Noel White assuming temporary control of first team affairs.

A FATHER and daughter who fell 80 feet to their deaths from a city centre car park were from a “happy, normal family”, police said last night.

One of the four men involved in an attempted bank robbery in Abbyleix in 2001 in which a garda was accidentally killed has been jailed for eight years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A MISSING woman’s four young children face a traumatic 48 hours as they wait to find out whether human remains discovered on farmland in Donegal are that of their mother.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance of a Donegal woman tonight confirmed that skeletal remains found in a house in the area are human.

The massive drugs haul seized by gardai earlier today will disrupt supplies in Dublin city for weeks to come, according to gardai.