Oliver McCloskey is missing from Faughart, Dundalk, Co Louth since 6am on Thursday.

Seven tries, each one brilliantly executed in the course of a game that reflected the competition in the most favourable possible light, featured in St Munchin's 27-24 victory over Limerick rivals Castletroy College.

Defending champions CBC advanced to the semi-finals of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup with an 11-point win over Castletroy College.

Defending champions CBC advanced to the semi-finals of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup with this 11-point win over Castletroy College.

Dan O’Halloran edged out John Shorten in the last shot of the Ballinacurra final, with Cian Boyle a bowl off the pace in third.

Here is a selection of people who are starting interesting new roles with public and private organisations in Ireland.

What do an award-winning street in Cork, an oak tree in Ardpatrick, and a church in Blackrock have in common?

A charity restaurant founded by celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, has closed its doors for good today.

Kya deLongchamps investigates the history behind the myth

Mr Callely claims he is in hospital five days a week recovering from a “horrific bicycle accident last August".

Irish drivers Kris Meeke (Toyota Gazoo Racing) and Craig Breen (Hyundai Motorsport) may have to park their own desire to win the Wales Rally GB to ensure their respective teams have the best possible platform to win the WRC Manufacturers’ title.

Championship 2019: wonder after wonder. Here’s a few of the highlights from the reel.

The boy who drowned in Co Louth yesterday has been named locally.

The family of murdered prison officer Brian Stack will meet with Garda Commissioner Drew Harris later to get answers over his killing.

Looking to find their way in what can be a confusing world, our toddlers need support not criticism, a Montessori teacher tells Margaret Jennings

Oliver Gough is the last man to win senior All-Ireland hurling titles with two different counties.

Cathal Toal caused the first major upset of the 2019 All-Ireland race when he eliminated Thomas Mackle from the Ulster senior championship at Tullysaran on Saturday.

In honour of Father’s Day, Chris Wasser brings us the most memorable cinematic dads of all time.

Gardeners could be the “canaries in our coal mine” because they already see the effects of climate change, President Michael D Higgins said at the opening of the Bloom festival.

The green wave has washed over Bloom with the first ever underwater garden exposing the threat of plastic in our seas.

The impact on Ireland’s food of key societal and historical changes, over the past 8,000 years, will be illustrated by one of the show gardens at the five-day Bloom festival, which begins at the Phoenix Park in Dublin today.

Irish-owned IT solutions and managed services company, Arkphire, has named Oliver Surdival as head of cloud services as part of its continuing growth strategy.

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah has been named as one of TIME magazines 100 most influential people.

It is, amazingly, over half a century since Fagin told his innocent — not for long — charges in Oliver that “You’ve Got to Pick-a-Pocket or Two”.

I’ve started seeing this delightful senior citizen like myself, I met her on a dating site called All My Own Teeth.

The warning came as Theresa May addressed senior ministers at a special meeting of Cabinet ahead of a historic week of crunch votes in the House of Commons which could shape the outcome of Brexit.

Champions, St Munchin’s, had to withstand a magnificent late rally from Castletroy to edge home 21-15 in the opening Clayton Hotels Munster Schools’ Junior Cup semi-final at Thomond Park yesterday.

Johann van Graan’s glass remained half-full as he argued Munster are still very much in Guinness PRO14 title contention despite defeat to the Scarlets in Llanelli.

Munster head coach Johann van Graan reserved special praise for his young players and the experience of scrum-half Alby Mathewson after his team survived a big scare in Newport.

A two-year-old boy who fell down a 360ft borehole in Spain nearly two weeks ago has been found dead.

Helen O’Callaghan talks to filmmaker Nicholas Ryan-Purcell about his new documentary and growing up with Asperger’s syndrome.

An inquest has heard how four members of a family died while attempting to do a u-turn on a busy national road.

Oliver and John Reel lost over €200k on a development in the Costa Del Sol. It’s been a long journey but they’re helping others recoup their losses, writes Dan Buckley.

Now is the ideal time to look at ideas for garden space – and Bloom is the perfect inspiration writes Peter Dowdall

The Atlantic storms name list is out. This year could be a turning point. A sea-change, if you will.

To appreciate the extraordinary journey and career Kieran Donaghy underwent before announcing his inter-county retirement yesterday on the 17th anniversary of 9/11, it’s worth rewinding to where he was when those planes crashed into those towers.

Inishbofin is one of two islands so named in Ireland (not that there are others elsewhere) — the other is a beautiful scimitar of an island just off Magheroarty Beach in Co Donegal which is minute in comparison.

John O’Rourke and David Hubbard will meet in the North Cork Junior A final, following O’Rourke’s impressive semi-final win over Derry Cooney at Peake.

Update - 6.28pm, May 1, 2018: Oliver Officer has been found safe and well.

Michael Oliver and his wife Lucy were targets of abuse by social media trolls following the recent Champions League quarter-final between Real Madrid and Juventus.

In football, as in the world about us, the whistle-blower is never too far from the headlines.