Yet, a modern analyst would probably focus more on slack defending than anything else, with both sides needing to shore up their rearguards if progress is to be made in the remainder of the league and into the championship.

Companies that worked on construction of the apartment in the US where six students died last year risk losing their licence for failing to follow industry guidelines.

Three Irish women who left a balcony seconds before it collapsed, killing six college students, have sued the builders, owners and managers of the Berkeley building.

Expansion costs at Scott Tallon Walker, the firm that designed the new Pairc Uí Chaoimh and co-designed the Aviva stadium, has led it to plunge to a pre-tax loss of €518,440.

The Government has ignored warnings from the most senior local government officials that the method used to compile the electoral register was “out of date and in need of urgent replacement”.

Niall Loughlin hit 1-4 in Celtic Park last night to help Derry book their place in the Ulster U21 FC quarter-finals.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 1-8 St Patrick’s, Maghera 1-6

St Pat’s, Maghera (Derry) 1-12 Omagh CBS (Tyrone) 1-08

The Department of Environment has claimed a land swap with a developer which will ultimately cost the State more than €33m was a “complex and challenging project”.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan was never told by the department of the €50m set to be paid in consultants fees by Irish Water — despite the fact it was informed of the sum in March last year.

More than 160 allowances for existing local authority workers are set to be cut after the Department of the Environment said it was surprised at having discovered hundreds of unknown perks for staff.

The final cost of the Mahon Tribunal is likely to be €200m, according to an estimate provided by the planning inquiry to the Government.

A Chinese man will be sentenced next week after he was caught by gardaí raping an Irish college student in a laneway.

The final cost of the Mahon Tribunal could top €250m and see lawyers and witnesses claim fees for years to come.

THE number of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) spotted across Ireland hasincreased by nearly 70% in just three years.

The number of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) spotted across Ireland has increased by nearly 70% in just three years.

When it comes to parish pump politics, nobody in Laois-Offaly can lay a glove on Charlie Flanagan.

THE Department of the Environment is still in the dark about what became of €200,000 it paid into a “dubious” bank account managed under the umbrella of SIPTU.

A COUNCIL house in Cork aity has been left empty for at least 14 years despite more than 6,491 individuals and families in the city on a waiting list for a social home.

BUILDERS are likely to walk away without paying a combined €850 million in development levies owed to cash-strapped local authorities after the Department of Environment asked for “relative flexibility” in dealing with the debts.

DEVELOPERS owed €800 million to cash-strapped local authorities in overdue levies at the end of 2008.

THE Department of the Environment has assigned blame for prolonged pollution problems in drinking water supplies to local authorities for failing to take priority actions.

A drunken father of three who crashed his car into two French tourists who had arrived in Ireland hours before causing them catastrophic injuries which killed them instantly has been given an eight-year sentence.

ALMOST €132 million is owed to local authorities nationwide by builders in unpaid development contributions, the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) heard yesterday.

A relieved French waiter, who was arrested for trying to pelt France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy with eggs on his arrival at Government Buildings in July, today gave the thumbs up to Irish justice.

A French waiter appeared in court today after he was arrested for trying to pelt France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy with eggs on his arrival at Government Buildings.

THE opening of retail giant Ikea’s first Irish store could be delayed by up to a year because contractors for the National Roads Authority (NRA) will not finish access roads for customers on time.

THE Government’s financial watchdog is set to raise concerns over hidden costs for the Mahon Tribunal as the inquiry’s bills have now reached nearly €73 million.

A SIGNIFICANT expansion is planned for Stryker’s Cork facility this year, resulting in job creation.

THE Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) referred 13 files to gardaí for alleged contraventions of the electoral acts, including files relating to former Clare TD and senator, Madeleine Taylor Quinn.

The chief executive of a council in the North has had a live bullet sent to him in the post.

Lansdowne 20 Dublin University 20

Defence counsel for a garda accused of assaulting a "Reclaim the Streets" protester in 2002, has told the man his client will testify that he saw him with his hand to the throat of another garda.

Cork Constitution 22 Lansdowne 11

Garryowen 12 Lansdowne 8

Lansdowne 19 Blackrock 17

Lansdowne moved off the bottom of the AIB League Division One as full back Brian O'Mahony kicked an injury time drop goal to edged hosts Blackrock 19-17 at Stradbrook.

Dungannon 13 Lansdowne 11

Lansdowne 31 Galwegians 25

Shannon have joined Limerick rivals Garryowen at the top of the AIB League Division One table thanks to a four-try 29-13 win over Lansdowne on headquarters' back pitch.

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A garda accused of assaulting a protester at the 2002 ‘Reclaim the Streets’ protest in Dublin has been identified in video footage of the event by two senior gardaí.

Carlow 24 Lansdowne 24