Naomh Colmcille GAA Club will appeal an eight-week suspension handed down to them from the Donegal Competition Controls Committee (CCC) for hosting an ‘unauthorised tournament’ for a former player and coach suffering from Motor Neurone Disease.

A new trial into the murder of Irish man Jason Corbett potentially hangs in the balance, a major US public service network documentary revealed last night.

Irish companies are losing millions in intellectual property assets, a leading law academic has claimed.

The foreign affairs minister was last night urged to intervene in a custody battle involving two Limerick children. They are in the care of a woman in the US who has been questioned by police about a head wound which claimed the life of their father.

A small group of Labour grassroots members, frustrated by Government cuts, have launched a campaign to promote alternatives to austerity.

A small group of Labour grassroots members frustrated by Government cuts have launched a campaign to promote alternatives to austerity.

The history of the Irish Derby is laden with fairytales and invariably one or two such stories emerge each year as we approach the final.

The Ladbrokes Irish Derby moves a step further tonight with eight more first round heats at Shelbourne and this session will see the majority of the very strong Dolores Ruth team swinging into action.

“Intense” is how Jamie Clarke forecasts today’s All-Ireland club football final replay.

The Central Appeals Committee (CAC) last night upheld the Central Hearings Committee’s decision to force Monaghan to play Sunday’s Division 2 game against Galway at a neutral venue.

Hats off to both Crossmaglen and Garrycastle for providing such a riveting game of football on Saturday.

Crossmaglen joint-manager Tony McEntee claimed the threat of suspension precluded him from speaking out against referee Rory Hickey’s performance on Saturday.

Paul Dillon and Aaron Cunningham face an anxious couple of days as they wait to see whether they face suspensions ruling them out of the All-Ireland final replay.

Garrycastle (Westmeath) 1-11 St Brigid’s (Roscommon) 1-9

PIONEERING entrepreneurs who have invested €200 million in renewable energy are on the verge of leaving the sector, yesterday’s Teagasc National Bioenergy Conference heard.

SOMEHOW, despite everything, Kilmacud soldier on.

Dublin champions Kilmacud Crokes and Offaly side Rhode will contest the AIB Leinster Club Senior Football Championship decider at O'Moore Park on December 5.

There was county football final action in Donegal, Derry, Fermanagh, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow and London today, while Kilmallock claimed the lone Senior Hurling championship title on offer.

PORTLAOISE cemented their status as Leinster football’s most successful club by claiming their seventh provincial title at the expense of Westmeath’s Garrycastle yesterday.

Portlaoise 1-9 Garrycastle 1-5

Garrycastle (Westmeath) 1-8 Ballyboden St Enda’s 0-6

Clonakilty's bid to become Division Two champions, just twelve months after they took the Division Three title, was ended at Dr Hickey Park this afternoon by a hungry Greystones side.

Terenure College 22 Clonakilty 31

TERENURE COLLEGE 22 CLONAKILTY 31

Clonakilty remain on course for their first ever AIB League Division Three title after running in four tries against Bruff in this afternoon’s semi-final tussle at Shannonvale.

AIB LEAGUE RESULTS

Radiography students from University College Dublin are demonstrating outside the Dáil and Department of Health today, claiming they have been subjected to slave labour.

ANGRY students were restrained by gardaí yesterday when they attempted to prevent Tánaiste Mary Harney leaving the opening ceremony of NovaUCD, the new €10 million innovation and technology centre at UCD.

Phil ’The Power’ Taylor surged into the second round of the Paddy Power World Grand Prix with an emphatic 2-0 win over Keith Deller in Dublin tonight.

Northern Irish rising darts star Paul Dillon crashed out of the Paddy Power World Grand Prix suffering a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Rod Harrington.

The line-up for the PDC Paddy Power World Grand Prix 2002 is now complete following the All Ireland Paddy Power Play-offs at the City West Hotel.