Ciarán McGinley will not play for Tyrone in 2015.

Leinster and Ireland flanker Seán O’Brien has joined Anthony Rainbow’s Carlow backroom team.

A homeless charity has blamed the Central Remedial Clinic salary top-up scandal for a 20% fall in donations in the run-up to Christmas.

The final cost of the Mahon Tribunal could top €250m and see lawyers and witnesses claim fees for years to come.

GAA players chief Dessie Farrell has put forward a pressing case for the controversial close season rule to be completely scrapped.

THE heartbroken wife of a man who suffered complications following an operation had to break the devastating news to her “compos mentis” husband that his life-support equipment was going to be switched off.

A health club supervisor has been given permission by the High Court to bring proceedings against the Equality Tribunal over its refusal to resume an investigation into her complaint that a less qualified male colleague was paid more and promoted ahead of her.

US governor Rod Blagojevich was thrown out of office without a single politician coming to his defence, brought down by a government-for-sale scandal that stretched from Chicago to Capitol Hill and turned the foul-mouthed politician into a national punchline.

AFGHANISTAN will postpone its presidential election until August 20, some four months later than the Constitution specifies, to give incoming US forces more time to stabilise the country’s most violent regions, the national election commission said yesterday.

Two men accused of shooting into a crowd and attempting to kill four people have been found not guilty on all charges by a jury in the Central Criminal Court.

THREE-QUARTERS of Irish children have decayed permanent teeth by the time they are 15-years-old, while half of all five-year-olds have rotten baby teeth, new figures show.

Three quarters of Irish children have tooth decay by the age of 15, a new study warned today.

IN the 10 years since the first ceasefire, over two dozen mostly young men from nationalist areas of the North were murdered by the IRA.

A 79-year-old pedestrian has died in a road accident in Co Clare.