Offaly 2-20 Antrim 1-15

The Belfast rape trial ended last week. The past few weeks saw the mix seethe, as preoccupations intersected in Belfast’s Court No. 12: crime, celebrity, sex, power, class, sport. All of it.

Twelve children under the age of 16 were among the 59 casualties taken to hospital after the terror attack at Manchester Arena.

Pragmatism over principle has been the hallmark of Enda Kenny's time as leader, suggests Political Editor Daniel McConnell.

February 24, 2007. One of Irish sport’s greatest days. One of the GAA’s proudest too, as rugby and England were made welcome in Croke Park. 

The National Association of General Practitioners has claimed the “vast, vast majority” of GPs around the country who have signed the contract to provide free care for under-6s have done so “under duress”.

A survey of just over 1,000 GPs commissioned by the National Association of General Practitioners found that just one in five intend signing up for the scheme before the May 27 deadline.

Claims by the GAA’s hierarchy that the Sky Sports deal has been good for the association have been contested by a leading sports academic, says John Fogarty.

A man who said he helped dispose of Marioara Rostas’s body said he wanted to give a statement against the man charged with murdering her, despite knowing he too could be charged, his solicitor has said.

Almost like clockwork, Paul Rouse has tweeted each Monday with the latest Sky Sports live GAA viewing figures in Ireland.

The Irish Aviation Authority was warned as recently as last September that the €85,000 fees paid by cadets training with Pilot Training College Waterford were at risk as the company could be in financial difficulty.

Last Sunday week, the closing mass of the Eucharistic Congress was held in Croke Park.

Arsonist bridegroom Max Kay said he was “out of control” and “mashed up” when he decided to set fire to the hotel where he had just got married.

FINN HARPS and Longford Town must do it all again on Monday evening in Finn Park, after neither side could break the deadlock in a lacklustre affair.

ENSURING the Six Nations and Heineken Cup will be shown on terrestrial TV will make the games available to a significantly greater number of people than if they are broadcast on subscription channels.

The book focuses on people’s experiences of the association.

From an Antarctic research base and the Great Pyramids of Egypt to the Empire State Building in New York and the Sears Tower in Chicago, illuminated patches of the globe went dark for Earth Hour, a campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.

Tyrone did enough during an energetic first half display at Healy Park tonight to defeat Down and get their Gaelic Life Dr McKenna Cup bid back on track.

Bentley Biscuit’s preparations for his double assault on the Royal Ascot sprints is due to step up a notch early next week.

Bentley Biscuit is pleasing connections following his arrival from Australia ahead of his Royal Ascot mission.

Alvin Rouse could be forgiven for complaining about life in the eircom First Division. Instead Monaghan United’s goalkeeper from Barbados is loving every minute of it. Well, almost every minute. Colm O’Connor reports.

QUESTION: Name the Olympian and Hollywood star who won a Tailteann Games medal in a pond in the Phoenix Park in 1924.

UUJ 2-11, St. Marys, Belfast 1-13 (aet)

Jordanstown 0-13 Athlone IT 1-8