Cavan footballer Seanie Johnston has welcomed the inclusion of 10 of the U-21 squad in the Breffni County's senior set-up for this summer's Championship campaign.

Garda witnesses have told the trial of a Wicklow man accused of murdering a shopkeeper in 2009, that a bloodstained knife and makeshift balaclava were discovered at his home two days after the killing.

Laois manager Niall Rigney has handed a Championship debut to Patrick Carroll after naming his side to face Carlow in this Saturday's GAA Leinster Senior Hurling Championship opener at O'Moore Park, Portlaoise.

Laois 1-11 Clare 2-12

Kilkenny 1-21 Laois 1-10

De Palma’s stark drama Redacted, made as a semi-doc, tells the story of the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl by American soldiers in Iraq. And Americans are rather miffed that their heroes should be depicted as less than heroic.

ONLY one round of the Dr Harty Cup may be completed but it is already obvious that St Flannan’s and St Colman’s are firm favourites for the Munster Colleges senior hurling title.

WITH both schools safely through to the knock-out stages after Christmas, tomorrow’s Irish Examiner Corn Uí Mhuirí clash between Douglas CS and Coláiste Chriost Rí at Bishopstown (1.30 pm) is purely to determine who tops the group.

A man who died following a beating in a derelict house in Cork in 1997 was