Team Ireland’s winning streak at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles continued yesterday with a seven-medal haul.

The Berkeley balcony should have held two tonnes, the city has said, same-sex spouses have been denied the right to upgrade their single person’s pension to a spouse and children pension, Liverpool have made another new signing and six facts you didn’t know about ice cream.  Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

Back in early part of summer 2007, I was suffering with a persistent head cold that I just couldn’t shake. 

Malachy O’Rourke has called on the GAA to provide better education for players in the wake of the two-year ban handed down to Monaghan’s Thomas Connolly for failing a drugs test.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy has allayed fears the Páirc Uí Chaoimh redevelopment project could be in difficulty.

A GAA player from Monaghan has been provisionally banned from Gaelic games for two years after testing positive for a banned substance.

Monaghan GAA player Thomas Connolly has been found guilty of a doping offence, a joint-statement from the GAA and Irish Sports Council has outlined.

Next Sunday at Skibbereen, Michael Toal returns from retirement to play Christy Mullins in the feature score of a benefit weekend for CoAction.

It is being reported that the late postponement of Bohemians' clash with Shamrock Rovers could cost the club around €40,000.

The aftermath of celebrations of Sarsfields’ win in the Cork county hurling final in 2012 saw a serious attack on a man at his home by a father with his two sons.

Dublin IT 0-11 DCU 0-7

IRISH referee Alan Kelly described his night at Real Madrid’s Bernabeu on Tuesday as “a dream come true” after taking charge of Real Madrid’s 6-2 hammering of Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League.

Galway 3-14 Dublin 1-10

WHEN the Galway U21 hurling team bus approaches Semple Stadium for this evening’s Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland semi-final against Limerick, it will awaken plenty of memories for David Burke.

DUBLIN will be straining to retain their Leinster U21 title in tonight’s Wexford Park decider but their hosts will be motivated by a desire to restore pride as much as thoughts of rare silverware.

Diarmuid Connolly's young brother Thomas will start for Dublin in tomorrow's Bord Gáis Energy Leinster U-21 Hurling Championship final at Wexford Park (throw-in 7.30pm).

BOSS Liam Hogan toasted absent friend Stephen Perkins as Ballyboden St Enda’s claimed an historic fourth Dublin SHC title on the trot.

This afternoon saw Ballyboden St. Enda's and Thurles Sarsfields claim Senior Hurling Championship titles in Dublin and Tipperary respectively, while Loughrea and Clarinbridge will have to meet again following their drawn Galway decider at Pearse Stadium.

A TITLE race with more unexpected twists and turns than a Wayne Rooney transfer saga delivered perhaps its greatest upset yet last night, as Galway United beat Bohemians in a five-goal thriller at Terryland Park.

A Maryland lake may be drained after US agents suggested it may have been the site where anthrax sent in the mail in 2001 was assembled or where evidence was dumped.