Antrim made it back-to-back wins in the Leinster SHC qualifier group as they defeated Carlow at Dr Cullen Park.

A court in Dublin has heard how a man was shot up to five times in front of his girlfriend and baby boy outside their house in Tallaght.

A 24-year-old Dublin man has received a suspended sentence of two and a half years for an unprovoked attack on a French tourist.

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A Wicklow man serving a life sentence for murder has been handed down a 10-year sentence for possessing the gun he used to murder a Dublin man in front of his partner and son.

A Dublin man charged with murdering a man who was shot dead three years ago is due back in court this morning.

Laois 0-20 Carlow 0-13

A Canadian woman accused of abducting her baby daughter 18 years ago lived with her daughter for a number of years in the Co Cork town of Carrigaline under an assumed identity, it is believed.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that detectives travelled to Austria and Switzerland with a can of Red Bull discovered at the scene of a fatal shooting, in an effort to establish if it had been bought at a Dublin Spar shop.

The key witness in the murder trial of a Wicklow man has described seeing a hooded gunman shoot her partner outside their Dublin home, as she was putting their baby into the car.

The hurlers of Carlow and Offaly will have to meet again to decide the Walsh Shield title after today's game at Dr Cullen park was abandoned due to a serious injury to David Kenny in extra-time.

An injection could offer new hope for severe asthma sufferers, scientists claimed.

Dozens of scientists gather in Ireland today for an international conference on potentially fatal diseases.

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THERE were heart-breaking scenes at Our Lady of Mercy Secondary School yesterday as former pupils who should be enjoying their summer break gathered to mourn and support one another.

A man who drove a car into a taxi driver who had acted as a "Good Samaritan" by trying to save a colleague from an assault, has received a two year suspended sentence and been given 240 hours community service.

Former FAI chief executive Bernard O’Byrne has been appointed chief executive of St Patrick’s Athletic.

THE Government is considering extending the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to cover patients who are still waiting to get an appointment with a consultant.

FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny has hailed his party's victory in the Meath by-election as a "real achievement".

Westmeath 0-12 Laois 0-17

DELAYS of up to four years in assessing the suitability of couples seeking to adopt overseas children is causing unnecessary stress and pain, a conference heard yesterday.

All the action from today's O'Byrne and Dr McKenna Cup matches.

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ALMOST 80% of people still waiting more than 12 months for hospital treatment are based in the East.

IRISH rugby is not the preserve of the traditional areas like Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Limerick. There is a place in the game for everybody, or at least there should be in spite of the campaign to get rid of Connacht, and anybody disputing that point of view ought to have been at Thomond Park on Saturday.

LIKE Mick McCarthy, the end of Brendan Menton’s tenure was not a case of if but when.

Speculation is growing that St Patricks Athletic manager Pat Dolan has been approached by the FAI to take over the association's vacant chief executive post.

Mick McCarthy has said he is "disappointed" at the impending retirement of FAI chief executive Bernard O'Byrne.

Fifa are expected to ease the Republic of Ireland's fears over possible ineligible players in the Andorra side they face in Wednesday's World Cup qualifier.

The Republic of Ireland have passed on to Fifa an anonymous tip that up to six members of the Andorra squad they are due to face in a World Cup qualifier are ineligible.

Fifa has admitted the spread of foot-and-mouth is becoming a threat to international football.

The pressure on Bernard O'Byrne to resign is increasing following the collapse of the Eircom Park project.

The finance committee of the FAI is meeting on Wednesday morning following weekend newspaper reports of the use of an Association credit card by Chief Executive Bernard O'Byrne.