The Football Association have tonight launched an inquiry into alleged comments from Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech, criticising referee Graham Poll.

Around a thousand people have attended a peace rally at Belfast City Hall.

Mastercard and Paypal's websites appear to have come under cyber attack in protest at the handling of the WikiLeaks affair, according to Sky sources.

IS Lord Hutton a clone of Lord Widgery of Bloody Sunday notoriety or is the liberal application of whitewash to cover establishment wrongdoings a standard function of a British law lord?

Kildare County have lost 1-2 to Monaghan United after a 90th-minute Stuart Holt goal sealed it for Monaghan.

Half of all the software used by businesses in Ireland is illegal, according to a watchdog group for the IT sector.

The gardaí are reportedly planning to introduce a nationwide system whereby the public can report motorists who break the law.

Sligo 1-10 Kildare 1-11

Whistle-blower Julian Assange today said his life was under threat as he prepared to fight an extradition bid after being freed on bail.

Davy Fitzgerald will have to plan for Sunday's Leinster final without Aidan Nolan who has received a two-game suspension after being red carded after the full-time whistle against Kilkenny.

Don’t work with children or animals, they say. With the former, the GAA have long succeeded in defying that idiom, but in Croke Park yesterday they tried their hand with a bird of prey and, well, it didn’t go too well.

We will soon be returning to West Cork from La Gomera, in the Canary islands. Yesterday, I found the text of a light-hearted radio talk I gave about island life in the late 1980s. In 40 years, it hasn’t lost its magic. This is what I wrote...

Arsene Wenger today refuted his charge from UEFA for improper conduct in the fall-out from Arsenal’s Champions League defeat to Barcelona.

A worker at Marks & Spencer in the UK who was suspended after “blowing the whistle” on plans to cut redundancy pay to staff has been sacked, it was announced today.

A NEW whistle-blowers hotline received complaints and allegations about the health service, solicitors and malpractice by employers in its first month.

GOLFERS arriving at Atlanta Athletic Club yesterday for this week’s PGA Championship were greeted with heat in the American south reaching three-digits on the heat index.

MASTERS champion Phil Mickelson last night revealed he has started treatment for a condition known as psoriatic arthritis.