Crossmaglen joint-manager, Oisín McConville, felt his team would succeed in extra-time. He believed the Armagh champions would the better of the two in regrouping for the 20 minutes of extra-time.

Top Gear’s former host Jeremy Clarkson is being sued by producer Oisín Tymon for racial discrimination.

The second day of the Web Summit may not have had an announcement to rival that of the first when Irish entrepreneur Oisín Hanrahan’s start-up, Handy landed a $50m investment but it had plenty to keep tech heads and investors busy nonetheless.

French president François Hollande has called for the Uber taxi service to be shut down and its vehicles seized.

North Yorkshire Police have spoken to potential witnesses to the fracas which cost Jeremy Clarkson his job at the BBC, saying they “have a duty to investigate” what happened.

“I wish I had been able to hold Oisín before he died. It would have been nice to have told him we loved him. He was a heart-breaking two pounds."

French President François Hollande congratulated the ECB for bringing inflation close to zero at a time when economists are criticising it for precisely that reason.