Raymond Ryan beat John Shorten by a bowl in the Flor Crowley Cup final at Ballinacurra on Saturday.

Business was on the agenda for Leaving Certificate students around the country yesterday morning.

Danny O’Connor crowned a dream debut for Louth with the match winning goal and admitted “that’s the stuff of dreams”.

WILLIAM O’DONNELL kept Fermoy at the top of the bowling world for a second week in succession with a great win over Kevin Riordan (North America) in the All-Ireland Junior C final at Westport on Sunday.

THE Junior Certificate higher level science exam was quite tough, according to Crena Shevlin, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) subject spokeswoman.

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The fiancée of Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor was today charged with wasting police time.

Allan McGregor was today waiting to discover whether an attack in Glasgow city centre had left him with a fractured eye socket, according to his fiancee.

DARREN SUTHERLAND of St Saviours OBA set up another exciting middle-weight meeting with Darren O’Neill (Paulstown) in tonight’s finals when he stopped Sean Shevlin in the second round of their box-off at the National Stadium last night.

DARREN SUTHERLAND and Darren O’Neill took different routes but each had decisive semi-final victories to qualify for tonight’s middleweight showdown at the finals of the national championships at the National Stadium.

A 30-year-old man who told gardaí that he found heroin valued at €31,000 in his back garden has been sentenced to ten years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Catholic man was among four suspects being questioned tonight about a loyalist sectarian beating in Northern Ireland that has left a schoolboy fighting for his life.

Plans for a super prison in rural Co Dublin should be subject to normal environmental and planning regulations, it was claimed today.

A 13-year-old boy will today appear in court charged with an arson attack on a Catholic primary school in Ballymena.

Residents battling to block a new €30m jail in north Dublin today took their campaign to the front page of a national paper.

Plans to revamp Spike Island jail in Cork cancel out the need for a controversial new €500m prison in north Co Dublin, it was claimed today.

THE extended families of those killed on Bloody Sunday are still suffering significant psychological distress, a new study revealed yesterday.

A ROW over the site of a telecom mast led to bitter protests, an arson attack, the planting of an explosive device and the arrest of three people, a court has heard.

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Two men are being questioned by the RUC about a gun attack on a polling station in which two officers and a woman were injured.