A retired guesthouse owner has been jailed for 18 months for the sexual molestation of his 11-year-old niece when she visited from America.

The High Court has awarded a singer €64,300 in damages for injuries she sustained after she slipped and fell in a Dunnes Stores supermarket.

Calls to a charity supporting people in mortgage distress almost doubled in the past two years, challenging perceptions that the country’s economic woes are over.

Republic of Ireland 2 England 0: First-half goals from Eleanor Ryan-Doyle and Saoirse Noonan got the Republic of Ireland off to a winning start in the elite qualifying round of the UEFA Women’s U17 Championships at Turner’s Cross last night.

Offaly 2-13 Leitrim 1-16

Longford 1-12 Waterford 1-10

When O’Brien walked out to bat in Bangalore during the 2011 World Cup, Ireland needed 222 runs to win in 27.4 overs and England’s fielders were already going through the motions.

Leitrim 0-15 Longford 1-12: Allianz Football League Division 4: A late Seán McWeeney point earned Leitrim a draw with their neighbours Longford in a nip-and-tick Division 4 derby in Carrick-on-Shannon.

As Premier League transfer activity intensifies, armies of sports lawyers are poised for an orgy of t-crossing and i-dotting on complicated contracts.

An anonymous donor from the Netherlands has pledged €100,000 to save an Irish monastery.

THE longstanding Irish policy of neutrality, an ongoing balancing act of several competing pressures — nationalism, the post-colonial relation with Britain, a burgeoning involvement with European politics — came under particular scrutiny in 1983.

Ian Paisley was described as a schizophrenic ready to adopt the IRA’s “Brits out” mantra if he did not get his way on Northern Ireland politics, state papers claim.

Ian Paisley was described as a schizophrenic ready to adopt the IRA’s Brits Out mantra if he did not get his way on Northern Ireland politics, state papers claim.

England lost the Ashes before Christmas with a third successive landslide defeat, despite Ben Stokes’ maiden Test century.

Leitrim joint-manager Brian Breen believes his side's 'running game' will get them over the line against London in Sunday's much-anticipated Connacht SFC semi-final.

Brumbies 14 British & Irish Lions 12

Wavebreak Media will use €400,000 raised in venture capital to hire 10 people.

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter is to target unregulated gambling dens and clubs in a bid to protect young and vulnerable people exposed to the industry.

A GROUP offering free legal representation in the High Court to people facing home repossession has claimed some mortgage files have been altered by brokers and banks.

KERRY football’s love affair with the All-Ireland junior club championship continues as St Mary’s produced a stirring second half display to triumph at Croke Park on Saturday night.

WHAT has become an enduring rivalry between UCC and Catholic Institute will take another twist tomorrow when the sides meet at Rosbrien (12.30pm).

OVER-the-counter painkillers containing codeine are addictive after just three days and should carry visible health warnings, Britain’s drug watchdog has warned.

SOME Christian Brothers who formerly served in St Joseph’s Industrial School, Tralee, are expected to be at the centre of a new Garda probe into sexual and physical abuse at the school.

THE number of people attending Gamblers Anonymous (GA) meetings around the country has doubled and in some places trebled over the past six months as people can no longer afford their betting habits.

MATT PRIOR insisted England had no excuses for their Headingley capitulation despite a chaotic start to the fourth Ashes Test.

Gunmen last night killed a Somalian aid worker of the UN food agency in southern Somalia, officials said.

ENGLAND recovered from a pedestrian start to yesterday’s opening match of the NatWest Series with Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen propelling them to a competitive total against South Africa.

CENTRAL Statistics Office figures for last year reveal several types of prescription drug tablets being seized in their tens of thousands for the first time.

BRITISH and Portuguese police have met to discuss re-interviewing the friends who dined with Madeleine McCann’s parents on the day she disappeared.

British and Portuguese police have met to discuss re-interviewing the friends who dined with Madeleine McCann's parents on the day she disappeared.

MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN had the last laugh in a week of cheer for Sri Lanka as England’s brave rearguard fell narrowly short at Asgiriya.

THE INAUGURAL Awards Night celebration of the Munster Cricket Union was distinguished by recognition of the work over a lifetime of dedication to the game of two of Cork’s most distinguished cricketing personalities.

IAN BELL settled into his most successful position in the batting order to rescue England against the West Indies at Old Trafford yesterday.

THE long awaited clash of David McCarthy (St. Augustine’s, Dungarvan) and John Coghlan (Castleknock) in the senior boys’ 1,500m failed to live up to expectations at the KitKat Irish Schools track and field championships at Tullamore on Saturday.

JERMAIN DEFOE sent Tottenham into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup but the Premiership side were pushed all the way by Southend at White Hart Lane.

About 150,000 people have had to flee their homes in north-west Central African Republic because of fighting in the region, a UN aid group said today.

Sligo have booked their place in the third round of the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers, winning their north-west duel with Leitrim by 1-07 to 0-09.

Hundreds of Irish citizens jailed in Britain could be facing deportation upon release despite having lived there for years, it was claimed today.

THE Christian Brothers were in the news again this week in relation to a colleague who was apparently handy with his fists.

Lincoln 0 Southend 2 (after extra-time)

THE Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, has suggested that gardaí should serve in the North as a means of showing up the IRA.

The Leitrim county board are on the verge of announcing their new football manager.

TREVOR GILES will appeal to the Leinster Council tonight against the four-week suspension that rules him out of Sunday’s Meath SFC final.

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