Gardai in County Leitrim are appealing for witnesses after a motorcyclist in his 20s died following a collision yesterday.

The woman killed in yesterday’s head-on collision in north Cork has been named as 35-year-old Pamela Ahern from Dungourney.

Three men will appear in court this morning after a Garda car was rammed during a high-speed chase in Carlow at the weekend.

Three men in their 20's will appear in court tomorrow charged in connection with a high-speed chase in Co Carlow last night.

Laois will host Dublin and Galway will take on Carlow in the Bord na Móna Walsh Cup semi-finals, after wins this afternoon.

TJ Reid has hit out at the GAA’s decision to experiment with one-on-one penalty taking in the pre-season competitions. Reid had perfected a similar penalty taking style to Cork keeper Anthony Nash which was ultimately outlawed last year, paving the way for the current striker versus goalkeeper experiment.

A Leitrim teenager has been killed after being hit by a car in New York.

Seanie Johnston’s protracted attempts to transfer clubs from Cavan to Kildare rekindles memories of Thomas Walsh’s switch from his native Carlow to Wicklow in 2007.

A PROPOSED GAA centre of excellence in Carlow could be worth €3.5m to the local economy, according to board chairman Pat Deering.

THOMAS WALSH will be the centre of attention in Portlaoise this Sunday when he lines out for Carlow in a championship encounter for the first time since 2006 – and against the county with whom he played for the past three seasons.

The heart was ripped out of an entire village by the death of a young garda who was killed after a car ploughed into his patrol, his State funeral heard today.

Hundreds of people have turned out in Fenagh in Co Leitrim this afternoon to pay their final respects to Garda Gary Mc Loughlin.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen and Tánaiste Mary Coughlan visited the north Donegal town of Buncrana to pay their respects following the death of 24-year-old Garda Gary McLoughlin who died from injuries he received when a vehicle ploughed into his patrol car at the weekend.

Reigning All-Ireland champions Kerry will begin the 2010 Championship season with a Munster quarter-final clash with Tipperary, while tonight's draws have also paired this year's finalists Antrim and Tyrone together in the Ulster Championship.

Detectives were tonight investigating two separate domestic incidents that left a woman and a man dead.

CARLOW football could be celebrating on the double this week as two of its top players could be set for a return to the county squad next season.

A RECYCLING plant at Fenagh, Co Carlow, was this week helping the Department of Agriculture and the Food Safety Authority with their investigation of pork contamination.

THE Leinster Council is to investigate the controversial transfer of Thomas Walsh from Carlow to Wicklow.

A post mortem will take place later today on the body of a Leitrim woman found in Laural Lake near Fenagh last night.

TREVOR GILES will appeal to the Leinster Council tonight against the four-week suspension that rules him out of Sunday’s Meath SFC final.