The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys, has announced an extra €2 million in funding for the National Cultural Institutions.

News of Alex Ferguson’s retirement received more than 1.4m mentions on Twitter in the first hour after the story broke yesterday morning, while the tweet from the club was re-tweeted or favourited more than 18,000 times.

The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has condemned the apparent poisoning of white-tailed sea eagles in Mayo and Donegal.