A red-brick home of distinction in university heartland, No 3 could have a wide appeal, writes Tommy Barker.

Suspect Daniel Damon couldn’t help himself after seeing his own ’wanted’ picture on the Victoria Police Facebook page.

Five years after leaving home to carve out an AFL career, 26-year-old Tommy Walsh will shortly return home to Kerry with no regrets and three things on his mind — family, friends and football. The truth is he never left the Kingdom. Nor did it leave him.

The Secret Place

THE seabird populations of Scotland have declined over the last decade and a report just issued confirms numbers are continuing to fall. According to Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), there may be 46% fewer seabirds now than there were in 1986 when systematic monitoring began.

One of the world’s rarest whales was photographed from the deck of the Celtic Mist on Sep 4.

An Australian man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of an Irish backpacker-Dublin man David Greene in Melbourne last year.

Peter Clohessy’s going. So is Brent Pope. Mick Galwey has his tickets, and Alan Quinlan is on board. Anytime is a good time to travel to Australia, but for rugby fans, the 2013 Lions Tour is something else entirely. As holidays go, this is once-in-a-lifetime stuff.

The man charged with raping and murdering Drogheda woman Jill Meagher has been accused of raping her three times before killing her, an Australian court heard

They grasped silverware again in April yet the applause did not come tumbling down from the stands to greet Cork’s third successive league title.

A former high-ranking official of the Melbourne Demons club has revealed that the so-called Irish experiment that began with the club recruiting Jim Stynes, Sean Wight and Paul Earley, was financed largely by media mogul, Rupert Murdoch.

Tributes have been flooding in for former Dublin minor footballer and AFL legend Jim Stynes after he lost his brave battle to cancer at the age of 45.

Tributes have been flooding in for former Dublin minor footballer and AFL legend Jim Stynes after he lost his brave battle to cancer at the age of 45.

Filled with hope in college, many of Aoife Dowling’s ex-classmates have been forced to work abroad and are unlikely to return

FORMER young footballer of the year, Tommy Walsh, will be a big hit with his new AFL club Sydney Swans, according to the outfit’s head coach John Longmire.

FRUSTRATION was the main reason Tommy Walsh moved from St Kilda to the Sydney Swans.

SETANTA Ó hAILPÍN’S eight-year career with the Carlton Blues is over after the Corkman was axed from the AFL club yesterday.

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a permanent settlement which could date back to the Iron Age on one of Europe's most inhospitable islands.

Some of Ireland’s finest young players have headed Down Under in search of a career as a professional sportsman. While, the allure of Sydney and Australia’s other attractions fill many a dream, the reality for Tommy Walsh, Michael Quinn, Chris McKaigue and Setanta Ó hAilpÍn also includes bouts of homesickness and a punishing schedule.

THE teenage sex scandal that has engulfed Ricky Nixon in recent weeks appeared to finally take its toll yesterday when the embattled agent relented and stood down from his role at the helm of his firm and entered rehab for treatment for a “substance abuse problem”.

Seán Óg Ó hAilpín says he is coming to terms with the end of his 14-year Cork senior hurling career and that he has departed the inter-county game content with the contribution he has made.

SEAN Óg Ó hAilpín says he is coming to terms with the end of his 14-year Cork senior hurling career and that he has departed the inter-county game content with the contribution he has made.

LEWIS HAMILTON was stopped by police for behaving like a boy racer yesterday only hours after he had wowed a Melbourne crowd with the fastest lap in Australian Grand Prix practice.

FOUR Dublin footballers were allegedly informed that they would be dropped from Pat Gilroy’s panel for this weekend’s NFL tie against Mayo if they attended Ricky Nixon’s AFL trial camp in Meath yesterday.

AUSSIE RULES scout Ricky Nixon will be joined by recruiters from a number of AFL clubs in Maynooth today where he will run the rule over the young footballers in this year’s Sigerson Cup final.

Former Aussie Rules Player and current Laois senior footballer Colm Begley will confirm this week whether he will line out for Dublin club side Parnells this year.

SYDNEY SWANS coach Paul Roos has hailed the return of Tadhg Kennelly to AFL after the Kerryman agreed a two-year deal with the club.

LAOIS’S Zach Tuohy has reaffirmed his commitment to his county’s Championship cause despite confirmation that he is to spend over a month of the summer in a Carlton Football Club training camp.

AUSSIE RULES attempts to unearth the next Tadhg Kennelly or Martin Clarke are to mushroom in August with plans for a “draft” camp to be set up here that will run the rule over a shortlist of up to 30 young Gaelic footballers.

IRELAND’S Damian Foxall is racing in home waters today as the six boats of the Volvo Ocean Race pass the south and west coasts as part of the 1500-mile Leg 8 from Portsmouth to Rotterdam.

A SAILOR on a solo voyage from Kinsale to Iceland said he was glad to be alive last night after being rescued from a ferocious storm off the coast of Scotland.

Rachel Griffiths has married her fiance artist Andrew Taylor in a candlelit ceremony in Melbourne.