The Brady Family have been announced as the new sponsors of Kildare GAA football and hurling teams at all grades.

A man is expected to be charged this morning in connection with the death of Aoife Phelan.

A man has died in a mobile home fire in Co Laois.

SOME visits everybody remembers. John F Kennedy in 1963, Pope John Paul II in 1979. However, sandwiched in between those was the visit few remember, that of the 37th President of the United States of American, Richard Milhous Nixon.

The Gardai and the Health and Safety Authority are investigating the death of a man in a farming accident in Co. Laois.

THE equine world is focussed on the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby, which takes place at the Curragh tomorrow. But many of those in attendance will already have witnessed a thoroughbred derby of a different nature however, having gone to tonight’s battle football battle between Kildare and Laois.

Tralee native Liam Kearns was last night unanimously reappointed as manager of the Laois senior football team for 2008, despite recent calls for his sacking.

ALL-IRELAND Ladies Football champions Galway started the year brightly with a six points win over Monaghan (2-14 to 0-14) on the opening weekend of the Suzuki National Football League.

MICK O’RIORDAN and Tom Ryan have been appointed joint caretaker managers of the Dublin senior hurling team pending the appointment of a team manager.