Limerick are facing an exodus of playing talent as the club looks to cut its spending in the wake of well-documented financial difficulties.

Alan Bennett never went missing for Cork City this season, so you can’t blame him if he goes off the radar in the coming weeks.

Councils in Belfast and Derry have launched a joint bid for the European Capital of Culture title in 2023.

Parents must not reduce their child’s First Holy Communion to “an orgy of materialism with miniature brides”.

These are hectic times for Waterford FC. Friday’s First Division win over Athlone Town attracted their biggest crowd of the season at almost 2,000, a fundraiser was held at the greyhound stadium on Saturday and another healthy attendance showed up yesterday at the RSC for the EA Sports Cup game against Cobh Ramblers.

Poignant.

Thousands packed the streets of Derry City today as the body of the former Stormont deputy first minister and ex-IRA commander was brought through the streets of his home town for the final time.

We are all framed by our past but our destiny and final legacy do not need to be defined by it. That is perhaps the key lesson for a troubled world from the life and times of Martin McGuinness and Abdelhamid Abaaoud, suggests Irish Examiner digital editor, Dolan O'Hagan.

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Police are investigating reports of disorder after last night's FAI Cup semi-final replay in Derry.

Ryanair is ending its Derry to London route from next spring.

Crowdfunding pages have been established to help families whose homes were burned by an Eleventh Night bonfire in Belfast.

A row of terraced houses caught fire close to one of the huge loyalist bonfires lit in the North to usher in the main date of the Orange Order's parading season.

Niall McGinn will tell you he never had a long-term career mapped out when he chose soccer over Gaelic football, but he is eternally grateful for eschewing more appealing short-term gains when he did.

A young Irish nun described by her family as a superstar died with five others in Saturday’s Ecuador earthquake as she tried to lead them to safety.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

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The sight of five coffins being carried up the steps of the Holy Family Church was beyond heartbreaking.

A young mother who lost her husband and two children and her mother and sister in a pier-side tragedy has said her surviving baby is her reason to live.

The Ulster Unionist Party has described proposals to change the official name of Londonderry to Derry as “divisive and unnecessary”.

Unemployment may not fall as rapidly in the coming years as implied by the huge growth numbers in the economy, according to the Economic and Social Research Institute.

The number of people on Government-funded ‘activation’ training courses has risen to 88,398, official figures show. 

Unemployment may slip below 8% just ahead of the next general election, but the dramatic improvement is likely to stall because the huge numbers on Government activation programmes will likely keep the jobless rate at an elevated level, experts have warned.

The politicisation of the Máiria Cahill case is doing a disservice to the Irish political process and all victims of the northern conflict, argues Dolan O’Hagan.

A-list celebrities are well accustomed to being lavished with free gifts but watch Snow Patrol star Johnny McDaid’s valiant efforts to pay for a ring for his actress fiancée Courteney Cox in a shop in his hometown?

In accepting the SSE Airtricity/SWAI player of the month award for May yesterday, Daryl Horgan now wants to crown Dundalk’s season with the title.

Ireland has the third longest jail terms for convicted terrorists in the EU, according to a report.

Conscious uncoupling has emerged as a recurring sub-plot of Ireland’s summer schedule, though happily of the strictly temporary kind.

With just three points separating the top four, another night of intrigue beckons in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division.

Concern is growing for a missing teenage girl in County Kildare.

SEVERAL days after 15-year-old Ann Lovett died in hospital, just hours after giving birth to a 6½lb baby boy found dead beside a Co Longford grotto, an anonymous caller phoned the Sunday Tribune newspaper to explain what had happened on that cold and dark winter afternoon on Jan 31, 1984 outside Granard.

Cork City face into their penultimate game of the Airtricity League season when they take on Dundalk in Oriel Park tonight but, already, the search for a permanent new manager at Turner’s Cross is well under way.

Gardaí hunting a murder suspect have surrounded a house in Donegal this morning.

If there are no last-minute hitches in the contract discussions with his prospective new employers, then James McClean could be playing against Manchester United at Wembley on Sunday.

As showtime fast approaches, O’Shea Park hums with activity.

Conor Sammon is set to make his full competitive debut for the Republic of Ireland. Here are some little-known facts about the Derby County man.

The man who came up with the name for that famous video called Kerry’s Golden Years has a lot to answer for.

“A clean pair of hands” is how the retired bishop of Derry, Dr Edward Daly, summed up Monsignor Eamon Martin, the future head of the Catholic Church in Ireland — a reference to the fact that the young prelate isn’t tainted by the abuse scandals and is a valued director of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland.

The FAI Ford Cup quarter-finals will see Shelbourne host Shamrock Rovers in a meeting of last year’s beaten finalists and the reigning league champions.