Former INLA man Dessie O’Hare is to fight extradition over his alleged role as the head of a gang accused of the “terrifying” imprisonment of a Dublin family, a court heard today.

All-Ireland champion Thomas Mackle bowled well to beat Aidan Murphy by almost a bowl in the Willie Whelton Cup at Grange.

An Armagh man suggested his partner’s daughter be put on birth control while he was secretly sexually assaulting her, a court has heard.

Michael Bohane will lead the Munster challenge at next weekend’s All-Ireland finals following his clear win over Raymond Ryan in Sunday’s intermediate final at Lyre.

Michael Bohane will play Raymond Ryan in next Sunday’s Munster Intermediate final at Lyre.

Billy McAuliffe and Paul Buckley will contest a classic Munster Junior A final at Templemichael on Friday week, June 26.

Catriona O’Farrell bowled impressively at Templemartin to secure her place in the Munster senior final with almost a bowl of odds on Emma Fitzpatrick.

Gary Daly and Séamus Sexton secured places in the Munster senior championship quarter-final draw at the weekend and Éamon Bowen Jnr revived his hopes with a brilliant show against James Buckley, writes Séamus Ó Tuama.

Thirty-seven jobs are to at risk with the closure of a number of Ulster Bank branches.

Brian O’Halloran will lead the Munster team in the third All-Ireland series in Westport in two weeks following his bowl of odds win over Michael Ward in the Junior C final at Kildee. 

Two titles for the USA and one for Connacht was the surprise outcome of the third All-Ireland series in Newtownhamilton and no Munster champion from the series for the second year running.

Martin Coppinger is officially the 2013 All-Ireland senior champion as Eddie Carr has withdrawn from next weekend’s rescheduled final because his injury has not cleared up.

Martin Coppinger and Eddie Carr will face each other in the rescheduled All-Ireland senior final at Béal na mBláth on Saturday, August 24.

Leader of the Carryduff Forklift Northern Ireland Rally Championship, Antrim’s Derek McGarrity (Subaru WRC) has dual targets in tomorrow’s Newry based Modern Tyre Service Mourne Rally.

Two brothers have appeared in court charged with a double murder and arson in the North six years ago.

Two brothers wanted in the North in connection with a double murder have been extradited from the South, police have said.

WAYNE Callanan led all the way to a bowl of odds win over Trevor O’Meara in the Mother Hegarty Cup final at Lyre.

Arsonists blamed for gorse fires that sparked a major alert in the Mourne Mountains should face jail, it has been claimed.

One man was arrested today after the discovery of a diesel laundering plant and 60,000 litres of toxic waste in the North.

Gardaí and the PSNI are investigating possible links between a bomb blast in south Armagh yesterday and an on-going investigation into dissident republican activity in Co Louth.

Police in the North have described yesterday's bomb attack in Armagh as a "totally reckless" act that was designed to kill or wound police officers.

Police are investigating the cause of an explosion in the North tonight.

TWO minutes after the BBC’s exit poll was announced last Thursday night, Iain Dale, the Conservative commentator, blogged: “Don’t panic chaps and chapesses.

A major security operation was under way in the North tonight amid fears that dissident republicans are planning to launch attacks in the run-up to the UK General Election.

The North's chief constable Matt Baggott may delay scrapping the police full-time reserve because of the escalating threat from dissident republicans, it was revealed today.

More than 20 police officers and their families in the North have been intimidated into leaving their homes by dissident republicans since January, it was revealed today.

Police in the North faced growing anger tonight after being accused of abandoning an area prior to a car bomb attack.

The North's Justice Minister David Ford has defended the PSNI's response to the bombing of a police station in County Armagh last night.

Government ministers today condemned a suspected dissident republican bomb attack outside a police station in the North.

Police faced heavy criticism today for the time taken to respond to a car bomb attack outside one of their stations in the North.

Dissident republicans who bombed a police station near the border are hell-bent on killing police officers, it was claimed today.

Firefighters were hailed as heroes today after evacuating residents moments before a car bomb exploded outside a police station in the North.

Three people were injured after a bomb exploded outside a police station in the North, police said today.

There is a security alert in Co Armagh this morning.

An Orange Hall was destroyed in a suspected arson attack early today.

ONE of the chief suspects in the Omagh bomb massacre is dead, it was revealed yesterday.

One of the chief suspects in the Omagh bomb massacre is now dead, it was revealed today.

For the first time people living in a border area of the North will be able to access urgent GP out-of-hours services in the Republic, it emerged today.

The Catholic Primate and Archbishop of Armagh Dr Sean Brady is tonight preparing to be made a Cardinal in the Vatican.

There has been a fish kill on the Castletown River near Dundalk in Co Louth.

A man alleged to have laundered money earned through suspected fuel smuggling has had assets of more than £400,000 (€589,000) frozen by the Assets Recovery Agency, it was announced today.