Two Tipperary and two Kilkenny players have been nominated for the Opel GPA hurler of the year award.

EDDIE HYLAND, after his points win over Oisín Fagan in a thrilling Irish title fight earlier this year, returns to an old haunt when he tops the bill on the “Best of the Irish” show at the National Stadium, tonight.

ALL-IRELAND champions Kerry top the nominations for the Opel GPA Football Team of the Year with 11 Kingdom players shortlisted.

IRISH boxing has a wealth of middleweight talent and two promising newcomers to the pro scene will be involved in an all-Dublin contest when DolPhil stage an eight-bout show at the City West Hotel on January 30.

Fine Gael could become the biggest political force in the country in coming years, it was claimed today.

Tyrone’s all-conquering heroes were today rewarded for their magnificent third All-Ireland title in six years as seven of their players were named GAA Football All Stars for 2008.

The Taoiseach’s three-in-a-row general election success will be toasted at a special Fianna Fáil party event in Dublin tonight.

A homeless heroin addict who swapped his pony and trap for a stolen car has been given a three-year sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Six members of the All-Ireland winning Kilkenny hurling team have been named today as Vodafone GAA All Stars for 2007.

Children’s rights groups have welcomed the prospective referendum on the rights of children and young people that is expected to take place next March.

Ireland's last remaining contender in the World Darts Grand Prix was knocked out of the event at the City West Hotel in Dublin last night.

A BUSINESS studies student from Mallow, Co Cork, yesterday scooped €150,000, the biggest prize at a €1,000 freeze-out three-day poker tournament in Dublin.

Next week’s Budget will stamp out abuses of the tax system by the wealthy,Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said tonight.

More than 1,000 Sinn Féin supporters are gathering in Dublin today to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the party.

Five points separated them at the end of last month's All-Ireland hurling final, but there's nothing to split Cork and Galway in the 2005 Vodafone Hurling AllStar nominations, which were announced this evening.

Irish golfer Padraig Harrington has announced all proceeds from his charity golf show at City West Hotel in Dublin this month will go towards the Asian Tsunami Disaster Fund.

Sinn Féin will use centenary celebrations next year to embark on a major recruitment drive on both sides of the border, it emerged today.

Padraig Harrington is to stage a second charity golf show at the City West Hotel in Dublin on January 22 – because the first the previous day is a sell-out.

THE world’s number six golfer yesterday announced the launch of the Padraig Harrington Charitable Foundation and the staging of a unique indoor charity golf show at City West Hotel on Friday, January 21.

TWO players each from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will qualify to compete in the 2004 Sky Bet World Grand Prix and get the chance to mix it with the big guns of world darts.

FOR anyone who has never run, or even walked a marathon, and would like to do so — the 25th Anniversary adidas Dublin Marathon on October 25 provides the ideal opportunity.

The Annual General Meeting of the eircom League opened this morning at the City West Hotel, Dublin.

Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor will face former World Champion Steve Beaton as he looks to retain the Paddy Power World Grand Prix in Dublin next month.

IT’S time to pay off your debts and get set for a some hard graft for those born in the Chinese Year of the Goat, but at least you will have your health.

Phil 'The Power' Taylor had to overcome an Irish darts legend and vociferous crowd to clinch his place in the quarter-finals of the Paddy Power World Grand Prix in Dublin.

Phil ’The Power’ Taylor surged into the second round of the Paddy Power World Grand Prix with an emphatic 2-0 win over Keith Deller in Dublin tonight.

Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor sent an all too familiar warning shot across the bow of the darts world on Sunday night with a convincing win over Wayne Mardle 2-1, in the Hasseroder Northern Irish Regional Final.

The line-up for the PDC Paddy Power World Grand Prix 2002 is now complete following the All Ireland Paddy Power Play-offs at the City West Hotel.

The Paddy Power World Grand Prix returns to the City West Hotel on the outskirts of Dublin for a six-day extravaganza of darts from October 22- 27 2002.

Law and order and the North were the central themes in the Taoiseach's Ard Fheis address to Fianna Fail delegates last night.

A cautious Ken Doherty isn't taking anything for granted in advance of his Irish Masters clash with Steve Davis.

Snooker is underway in the new look Irish Masters at the City West Hotel in Dublin today.