The GAA’s 2020 hurling committee is unlikely to recommend the introduction of the black card after survey results showed overwhelming resistance to the implementation of a third card.

My wife is a relaxed and easy-going person, yet two simple words can instantly produce what I call ‘the look’.

FOR the young solo English backpacker, Northern Ireland during the Troubles had a certain curious allure.

Chris Hadfield, the retired Canadian astronaut, rock star, and internet sensation, began his new role as an ambassador for tourism to Ireland with four short films promoting the Emerald Isle.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is to become a tourism ambassador for Ireland.

Belfast has avoided the serious flooding that many feared after a tidal surge came and went without breaching defences.

The GAA are to honour the 15 outstanding hurlers from the 1980s who were unsuccessful in annexing an All-Ireland winner’s medal.

Jinx Lennon expressed his anger at Irish society on his last album, National Cancer Strategy, but realised the material was too oppressive for his fans.

A potato not seen since the famine is set to make a comeback, it was revealed today.

ESB Networks is appealing to residents all over Cork to conserve electricity today, as they try to get customers back online after power outages caused by flooding.

SEAN Óg Ó hAILPÍN has stressed he meant no disrespect this week when he expressed his surprise that Antrim — Cork’s next opponents — were still alive and kicking in the hurling championship.

An 18-year-old man has died after being hit by car in the North.

Officers working for the Police Ombudsman in the North have released a 77-year-old man arrested yesterday for questioning about the murder of RUC Sergeant Joe Campbell in February 1977.

A fresh lead has been uncovered by a team re-investigating the murder of a policeman in the North more than 30 years ago, it was announced today.

A new state-of-the-art lifeboat is to be stationed at Red Bay on the Co Antrim coast, the RNLI announced today.

An additional £14m (€17.92m) is to be spent replacing 26 fire stations across the North, it was announced today.

A 37-year-old man has died following a road crash in Co Antrim yesterday afternoon.

Six people have lost their lives on Irish roads over the weekend.

An urgent all-island approach to stop foot-and-mouth disease from entering Ireland today swung into action.

The North's power-sharing executive will today hold a special Cabinet meeting to consider their response to the foot-and-mouth outbreak in Surrey, England.

A multi-agency response was called for today after fresh flooding in Cushendall on the Co Antrim coast.

At least 10 houses in the North have been flooded tonight after a heavy downpour, an official spokeswoman has said.

Philip Maher is expected to be missing from the Tipperary senior hurling panel for some time after the Borrisoleigh defender decided to withdraw himself temporarily from the squad.

Antrim 1-07 Tipperary 1-11

2005 All-Star nominee Micheal Webster has returned from injury to take his place in a much-changed Tipperary team for Sunday's NHL Division 1B trip to Antrim (Cushendall, throw-in 2.00pm).

WHILE Tuesday’s announcement of a €2.6m Hurling Development Plan grabbed headlines, the Ulster Council have already been putting in place plans to strengthen and develop the small ball game.

Fresh from helping Ballgalget to the Down and Ulster hurling titles, Down sharp-shooter Johnny McGrattan has won the Tennents/Ulster GAA Writers' Merit award for October.

Sectarian attacks on Catholic homes in the north Antrim area must stop and those responsible for the violence must be brought to justice, the Rev Ian Paisley said today.

At least seven police officers were injured when they were attacked by mobs in west Belfast and Co Antrim early today.

UNDER pressure SDLP leader Mark Durkan last night pulled off the political triumph of his life.

Under pressure nationalist SDLP leader Mark Durkan tonight pulled off the political triumph of his life.

THE leader of the mid-Ulster UVF in the seventies and eighties was Robin Jackson.

THE body of a missing Cork vet was discovered on a Scottish island yesterday.

A woman involved in a car crash has died despite being given first aid by striking firefighters in Northern Ireland, it emerged today.

Agriculture Minister Brid Rodgers’ officials were today accused of putting Northern Ireland’s entire farming industry at risk because of a lack of information about any contingency plans to deal with future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease.

The family of a Catholic Royal Ulster Constabulary officer whose murder is at the centre of a Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman investigation into possible police misconduct today hoped the probe would ‘‘uncover the truth’’ about his murder.

Northern Ireland Electricity has said it hopes to restore power to houses affected by last night’s gales before mid-afternoon.

Northern Ireland agriculture minister Brid Rodgers was today facing calls for her resignation after it emerged that farmers making fraudulent compensation claims during the foot-and-mouth crisis will escape prosecution.

16 farmers in Northern Ireland, who are claiming EU sheep premiums, were found to possess no sheep at all after the foot-and-mouth cull earlier this year.

Four former police officers are to help investigate the illegal movement of livestock in Northern Ireland before and during the foot-and-mouth crisis.

The North's Dept of Agriculture has decided against culling animals on a farm in Co Derry saying it is only a 'cool' suspect for foot-and-mouth.

The North's Agriculture Minister Brid Rodgers is to decide today whether to ease movement restriction on animals by allowing their transport to slaughterhouses.

At least three livestock dealers in Northern Ireland are at the centre of investigations into the movement of sheep before foot-and-mouth occurred in the province, according to reports tonight.