Nobody in these parts needs telling just how much potential Adam Idah has. But Saturday’s hat-trick in Norwich City’s 4-2 win at Preston in the FA Cup was the first glimpse for a wider English audience of what an incredible prospect he is.

Preston North End took a deserved victory at Turner’s Cross last night, but an outstanding performance from Cork City goalkeeper Tadhg Ryan ensured the Championship side had to earn the win.

Eir has defended its roll-out of high-speed rural broadband despite fewer than one in five homes and premises covered by the service actually connecting up to it.

British detectives are hunting the murderer of a newborn baby girl who suffered multiple head injuries before she was found in the bushes of a town centre park, it has emerged today.

Celtic were not at their best but still proved too good for Partick Thistle in a 1-0 Ladbrokes Premiership win at Firhill.

Wexford snatched an injury time victory to book a Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie semi-final against champions Cork, writes Daragh O Conchúir.

A stem cell treatment for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) has enabled some patients to walk again, doctors have told a BBC Panorama programme.

The managing director of Fitzers Catering is forecasting that the firm will record an 85% increase in profits this year to around €650,000.

Political talks aimed at saving the North's crisis-hit power sharing government from collapse will take place in Belfast later.

A senior republican whose arrest over an IRA-linked murder escalated the current political crisis in Northern Ireland has accused unionists of using his “wrongful detention” to try to pull down power sharing.

EVERYONE will welcome the assurance given by senior Sinn Féin member, Bobby Storey, that the IRA has stood down, is gone off the stage and is not coming back. 

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will today meet the SDLP in a bid to prevent the collapse of the North’s power-sharing executive.

Niamh McGrath kept Galway’s double dream alive with an injury time point to secure a place in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie final.

A well-known republican arrested by detectives investigating the murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville has been released pending a report to prosecutors.

The recent election of the IRA’s former head of intelligence to a prominent position in Sinn Féin north of the border is being viewed by some as an attempt to prepare the ground for the eventual election of a southern politician to take over from Gerry Adams.

Martin Storey was as desolate as you might have imagined after yesterday’s Leinster Club SHC final.

The first woman bishop Ireland or the UK has been installed by the Anglican Church.

For Martin Storey, the decision by the Oulart-the-Ballagh panel to sign up for Movember and grow facial hair wasn’t much of a stretch. He fell in line with that plan very easily, thank you very much.

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A catering manager at Croke Park has avoided jail today after he stole €15,000 worth of food and drink from his employers.

The Church of Ireland has appointed its first ever female Bishop.

Former Wexford hurling legend Martin Storey is set to join Wexford County Council.

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Stoke boss Tony Pulis made six changes to his side for this evening’s Capital One Cup second-round clash with Swindon at the Britannia Stadium.

Offaly and Wexford, both in need of a fillip, have the right men in charge to provide it

Rackard was the man who revived hurling in Wexford.

BASED on his experiences with Liam Dunne in Oulart-the-Ballagh, discipline is the vital ingredient the new Wexford manager will bring to the inter-county fold, argues Keith Rossiter.

LIAM DUNNE has been instrumental in improving the discipline of his Oulart-the-Ballagh club team with measures such as training sessions the morning after county final victories.

WHETHER it was by design, or co-incidental, one major theme emerged at last Tuesday’s National Equine Conference: The need for more thoroughbred blood in the sport horse population.

RIO FERDINAND has lost his privacy action over a “kiss and tell” story.

Rio Ferdinand lost his privacy action over a "kiss and tell" story today.

Football star Rio Ferdinand told the London High Court today of his anger over a “kiss’n’tell” story published when he held the England captaincy.

YOU often hear people hark back to hurling’s glory days, to Limerick and Kilkenny in the 30s, Cork and Tipp in the 40s, Wexford in the 50s, Tipp again in the 60s, Kilkenny and Cork in the 70s, the rise of the underdogs in the 90s, Kilkenny again dominant in the 00s, but in all of those eras it was just a few teams at the top.

A senior university academic is heading up an independent investigation into the mystery bondholders behind Ireland’s crushing national debt.

IRELAND’s bank debt should be cancelled on the grounds that it is “unjust and unsustainable,” a justice advocacy group has said.

Education minister Caitriona Ruane has been asked to explain why she failed to appear in the Stormont chamber today to deliver a scheduled statement.