THE statistician who compiles player data for Easter Sunday’s match programme at Thomond Park won’t have any quirky job specs to attach to the players.

Yes, says Donal Lenihan

MOSS KEANE was the biggest, funniest man I have ever met. He filled whatever room he was in.

FORMER Ireland rugby international and Ulster Unionist Party member Trevor Ringland has said he will leave the party if new leader Tom Elliott does not change his attitude towards the GAA.

The new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) faced his first resignation today after he was accused of snubbing gaelic games.

The Ulster Unionist Party’s sole MP Lady Sylvia Hermon today said she will “weigh up her options” after refusing to fight the next election under a joint banner with the Conservative Party.

Property developer Barry Gilligan is set to take over as the new chairman of the North's Policing Board.

ALTHOUGH Irish rugby fans might be underwhelmed by Ireland’s Call, it is the future of Amhrán na bhFiann that appears to be more under threat as an anthem to be played on big-match occasions.

A former Sinn Féin mayor of Derry is to join the party’s first three Assembly representatives on the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

Jordan Grand Prix founder Eddie Jordan and former rugby international Trevor Ringland have been appointed as chairman and deputy chairman of Rally Ireland, the Irish round of the World Rally Championships, which will take place in November this year.

More than 1,000 witness statements have been taken during the investigation into the horrific murder of north Belfast schoolboy Thomas Devlin, it was confirmed today.

Scottish Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson has been lined up as a guest speaker at an SDLP conference next week on sectarianism and racism, it was confirmed today.

The British government has announced the make up of the North's new 19-member Policing Board.

The youth wings of Labour and SDLP meet in Belfast today to discuss a new Ireland free of sectarian division.

IT was a long time coming - about 800 years, give or take a few skirmishes - but Ireland’s ‘ould enemy’ is about to become our NBF, or New Best Friend.

A groundbreaking agreement which will see thousands of Orangemen parade in the nationalist West Bank of Derry next month was today held up as a example for others involved parading disputes.

Hugh Farrelly charts the colourful career of Mick Doyle, one of Irish rugby’s greatest characters.

The world of Irish and international rugby was today mourning the tragic death of one of its most colourful characters, Mick Doyle in a road accident in Co Tyrone.