MITCHELSTOWN yesterday ended 101 years of disappointment and frustration when they won the Chartis Irish Junior Cup with a decisive 4-1 victory over Lurgan at Castlerock.

IT is usually cowboys who find comfort at home on the range but that is exactly where Rory McIlroy is hoping his ongoing golfing success will spring from.

A body exhumed from a churchyard cemetery where it was secretly buried is suspected to be a teenage IRA victim murdered 35 years ago.

A body - believed to be one of the so called IRA disappeared - has been exhumed from a church graveyard in Scottstown in Co Monaghan.

FRANCE’S first choice scrum-half Julien Dupuy has been ruled out of the RBS 6 Nations Championship after receiving a six-month ban for eye-gouging.

The family of one of 'The Disappeared' is appealing to IRA members who know anything about the victims to come forward.

Pressure mounted on the IRA today to come clean about its so-called “Disappeared” victims.

New plans to issue death certificates to families of people missing for more than seven years will not bring closure to relatives of the so-called Disappeared, it was claimed today.

Actor James Nesbitt is to back the campaign to find the missing bodies of IRA murder victims.

Gerry Adams was today challenged to have face-to-face talks with republicans allegedly involved in the murders and secret burials of the so-called Disappeared.

The family of a teenager abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA hoped their meeting with Ian Paisley today would help secure the return of his body and those of the rest of the North's disappeared.