On a dirty, stormy night in the Athletic Grounds, Armagh showed stomach for the fight on all fronts to boost their promotion hopes from Division Two while at the same time putting a considerable dent in Kildare's challenge.

Armagh conquered a storm as they battled to a deserved win over Kildare with just 14 men at the Athletic Grounds.

From Colum McCann and Hilary Mantel to Nick Hornby and Rachael English, there are plenty interesting reads on the way over the next few months, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Nobody in these parts needs telling just how much potential Adam Idah has. But Saturday’s hat-trick in Norwich City’s 4-2 win at Preston in the FA Cup was the first glimpse for a wider English audience of what an incredible prospect he is.

Pat McCabe resurrects his most famous creation for his latest novel. He tells Richard Fitzpatrick why he’s gone back to The Butcher Boy and characters inspired by his hometown

A bad season got worse for Cork City as they crashed out of the FAI Cup at Eamonn Deacy Park tonight.

State-run secondary schools are failing to provide students who opt out of religion access to another subject.

Garda commissioner, Drew Harris, and senior officers have been accused of putting road users' lives at risk after it emerged that they are failing to stop nine out of every 10 disqualified drivers from continuing to drive on Irish roads.

In the third of a five-part series on the local elections, Kevin O’Neill profiles the revamped Cork City North-West district

The expansion of Cork City’s boundary has resulted in a shake-up of electoral wards. In the first of a five-part series,

Goalkeeper Aoife Hyland was in outstanding form as Scoil Chríost Rí claimed their first ever Lidl All-Ireland PPS Senior A title with victory over Loreto Clonmel at John Locke Park in Callan.

The medals won by Irish riders at the Track Cycling World Cup in Pruszkow last week were impressive by any standards.

For fans of antidotes to high-speed communications, the proposal to include a time capsule in the next census will hold a certain romantic appeal.

Timmy Murphy won the All-Ireland Junior C bowling title for Cork in the autumnal glory of Wompatuck State Park south-east of Boston on Sunday.

We’re all well aware of the harmful effects of blue light emitted from our PCs, laptops and smartphones, and the need to cut back on screen time.

Gardaí have used private email accounts to send and receive messages relating to their work, and the force has no record of these correspondences, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

At least 1,000 extra gardaí would be needed to police a hard border with the North.

Senior gardaí have admitted they failed civilian analysts who raised problems about the inaccurate recording of crime statistics and were also belittled by management.

Fears have been expressed about the re-emergence of so-called joyriding in Cork City after an almost 70% spike in the number of reported car thefts.

An Garda Síochána must be immediately sanctioned by the Revenue Commissioners over failure to clarify if it is tax compliant, a year on from the Garda college financial scandal, a TD has said.

An Garda Siochána has just 24 hours to confirm it is tax compliant to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee amid an ongoing Revenue examination of its accounts in response to the Garda College financial scandal.

Ryle Nugent announced yesterday he will step down from his position as group head of RTÉ Sport for “new challenges”.

Most individual wage earners in Ireland would not meet the criteria to apply for a mortgage for a one-bed apartment anywhere in Dublin, while a full-time minimum wage earner would have “little chance” of getting a mortgage for the same type of property in Cork, Galway, or Limerick cities.

Inquiries into Garda handling of the deaths of four men and fraud allegations against another have run into difficulties amid concerns over delays, insufficient resources, and overly restrictive terms of reference.

Gardaí fear a vicious gang will continue to kill the remaining members of a rival outfit after a second person was shot dead outside a west Dublin shopping centre.

Latest: The 28-year-old man shot dead in CityWest in Dublin last night has been named as John Gibson.

Gary Daly and Arthur McDonagh face off in an all-Fermoy Mick Barry Cup final to fill the last spot in next month’s King of the Roads semi-final.

The senior leadership of An Garda Síochána meets this morning for what has been described as a crucial bid to “steady the ship”.

The turnout and enthusiasm by Waterford hurling supporters as their team arrived home last night after coming so close to All-Ireland glory left many wondering what it will be like when they do go and win it.

A man who frightened an elderly woman in her home and then assaulted a garda at the scene was jailed for four months yesterday.

A video of a nine-year-old boy crawling around the floor of his homeless accommodation has gone viral.

A video of a nine-year-old boy crawling around the floor of his homeless accommodation has gone viral.

Limerick 1-28 Clare 1-15 

Five units of the Cork City Fire Brigade were needed to tackle a large blaze at the old St Kevin’s unit at the former Our Lady’s Hospital site in Shanakiel.

The Policing Authority has expressed considerable concern at the lack of Garda progress in meeting government targets to recruit 500 civilians by the end of 2017.

Tipperary County Board secretary Tim Floyd has expressed concern that the new hurling proposals will significantly curtail club activity in April and May.

Senior gardaí have refused to say if five secret bank accounts linked to the Garda college financial scandal are tax-compliant — two weeks after being ordered to clarify the issue.

As the dust settles on Wednesday’s Public Accounts Committee hearing into Templemore College, what are the issues facing Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan when she appears before it again on June 14?

The financial crisis at the Garda College has deepened after serious concerns emerged over the tax compliance of its accounts and fears over hundreds of cheques given to gardaí for unvouched expenses.

The Public Accounts Committee, examining a series of financial scandals at the Templemore Garda College, are to grill eight civilian members of the force next week — without Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan being present.

The number of people in insecure, temporary, low-paid work has “skyrocketed” over the last 10 years, a trade union economic think-tank has found.

Private hospitals can alleviate the huge pressure on public hospitals by taking their private patients.

Galway Utd are through to the semi-final of the EA Sports Cup after a superb 120 minutes of football and victory in a penalty shoot-out at sun drenched Sligo Showgrounds.

Graphic details of the murder of Elaine O’Hara at the hands of sadistic killer Graham Dwyer have been reconstructed for a major US television crime network.