Martin Glenn, the Football Association's under-fire chief executive, has revealed that a black woman was deliberately chosen by the governing body to investigate racist allegations surrounding former England Women's manager Mark Sampson.

A couple in England have been told to restrain their cat or face having their mail deliveries suspended.

Offaly 0-14 Limerick 1-19: Limerick’s Shannonside derby clash with Clare in a fortnight’s time will be a promotion showdown regardless of results next weekend after Limerick eased to an eight-point win over Offaly at O’Connor Park in Tullamore yesterday.

Clare 2-21 Offaly 0-15: Davy Fitzgerald’s Bannermen, similar to the under-construction main stand which provided an appropriate backdrop to this Division 1B contest, are very much a work in progress.

Outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter hailed an “inspiring” England performance as Mark Sampson’s side finished third in the Women’s World Cup in Canada.

A quiet Saturday in. Perfect.

Clare and Limerick? The only differences between us are those little idiosyncrasies, those unique emblems, which distinguish us all as our own separate little tribe in the wider hurling family.

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Dealing with the past is costing Northern Ireland’s criminal justice system more than £30 million a year and risks denting public confidence in present-day services, an inspection has revealed.

Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Noel Redding, the Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist who came to call West Cork his home, writes Noel Baker

A Clare school has discovered its early intervention classes for dyslexia are proving a huge success, writes Oliver Moore

A man was jailed today for at least six years by a British court today for raping a young woman who had been thrown off her last bus home because she was 20p short of the fare.

Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist

Twenty-one police witnesses to alleged security force shoot-to-kill incidents in the North are dead, a coroner's court heard today.

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Controversial reports into alleged British security force “shoot-to-kill” deaths in the North should be released to the victims’ families, the High Court ruled today.

HIS mother in law left in an ambulance, his wife is about to leave in a huff and Tiger Woods is probably wishing the other women in his life – 10 and counting – would leave him alone.

Police in the North are to comply with a court order to hand over top secret reports on an alleged officer shoot-to-kill policy during the Troubles, a senior commander revealed today.

The North’s new chief constable pledged today to work with all the people of the region to defeat dissident republican terrorists opposed to the peace process.

Susan Boyle received a standing ovation for her performance on ‘America’s Got Talent’ last night.

A Belfast coroner today gave the North's Chief Constable seven weeks to hand over top secret reports on an alleged police shoot-to-kill policy during the Troubles.

George Sampson has been evicted from his home.

UK television presenter Kirsty Gallacher is expecting her second child, she said today.

An "overwhelmed" Diversity remained stunned today at their shock victory in the Britain's Got Talent final.

BRITAIN’s Got Talent winner George Sampson yesterday said he believes a last-minute song change helped him to victory.

Top secret reports into allegations the security forces operated a shoot-to-kill policy in the North more than two decades ago are finally to be opened to the North's chief coroner, it was revealed today.

He’s one of the world’s richest and most bombastic business men — and Donald Trump always gets his way. Which is why no-one’s betting against him hosting a future US Open on his own New Jersey creation. SIMON LEWIS reports from New York.

THE chief White House lawyer floated the idea of firing all 93 US attorneys at the start of President George W Bush’s second term, but the Justice Department objected and recommended the eight dismissals that have generated a political firestorm two years later.

The chief White House lawyer floated the idea of firing all 93 US attorneys at the start of President George Bush’s second term, but the justice department objected and eventually recommended the eight dismissals that have generated a political firestorm two years later.

TWENTY-SIX countries in an international energy consortium will release 60 million barrels of crude oil and petrol to relieve the energy crunch caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina damaged or displaced an estimated 58 Gulf of Mexico oil platforms and drilling rigs, according to the American Petroleum Institute.

With the much-ballyhooed initial public offering of Google Inc. behind them and oil chugging to a new record high, investors took a step back today, sending stocks lower.

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THE House of Lords will next week hear allegations of how the British security forces had a shoot-to-kill policy in the North.

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R Kelly has reportedly settled a civil suit with a former record label employee who claimed she had a sexual relationship with the singer when she was 17.