TOP referees have met with inter-county managers in the first in a series of consultations over interpretation of the football playing rules.

GAA Director General Paraic Duffy has said that his organisation could not have done much more to explain the rules regarding the handpass, ahead of last Sunday's major day of football Championship action across three provinces.

A Glasgow man became the first person to be given a prison sentence at the historic first sitting of the new €140m Criminal Courts of Justice at Parkgate St in Dublin today.

A 46-year-old father of two, who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a young Galway man, will be sentenced for the killing later this month.

The GAA have made two new appointments with the installation of journalist Alan Milton as the Association's Communications Manager and Patrick Doherty being appointed to the Games Section of the GAA.

ADMIRERS and supporters of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey remembered his years of service for the country yesterday.

Dignitaries and old allies of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey, who died yesterday, visited his north Dublin home today to pay their respects.

Two years after Mary Reid’s mysterious death, her family still fights for the truth, writes John Breslin.

A book chronicling Westmeath's journey to Leinster provincial honours will be launched tonight in

THERE was a time when county championship success meant rounds. Not of the pitch, but of pints and of pubs, with chests out, heads held high, and the all-important cup in tow.

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness allegedly fired a shot inside a bookmaker’s shop in Derry on Bloody Sunday, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

A former British paratrooper tonight faced allegations of murdering up to four people on Bloody Sunday.

A former paratrooper admitted today that he killed a fourth person on Bloody Sunday.

A former paratrooper today denied being involved in a conspiracy to cover up the murder of innocent civilians on Bloody Sunday.

A legal attempt to halt the abortion referendum is to be heard in the High Court today.

A man who claims he heard a soldier boasting that he shot one of the Bloody Sunday victims in the head said today he could not identify him because of the passage of time.

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry today heard more accounts of paratroopers firing from the hip at the scene where six of the 13 men killed that day were shot.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams today rejected claims made by an anti-Agreement unionist naming those alleged to be leading members of the Provisional IRA.

The Commander of 1 Para, Colonel Derek Wilford, warned a photographer to stay behind an Army barricade on Bloody Sunday, it was claimed today.

A man recounted today how he gave the kiss of life to a father of six as he lay dying in the chaos of Bloody Sunday.

A youth who spotted an Official IRA gunman on Bloody Sunday was going to throttle the would-be assailant, the Saville Inquiry has been told.

One of the men shot dead on Bloody Sunday was attempting to escape the area with his hands on his head, the Saville Inquiry was told today.