Joey Barton is facing the threat of a 10-match ban — or even longer — after the Football Association charged him with two acts of violent conduct following his sending off in QPR’s defeat by Manchester City.

THE company operating the 2,111-seater €80 million Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin’s docklands are reporting “satisfactory profits with strong box office sales” this year.

Like most newly-weds, Donegal woman Carmel Colhoun should have been lounging in a honeymoon deck chair yesterday.

Former Mayo star David Brady rubbished claims James Horan’s side have been tactically fouling en route to tomorrow’s All-Ireland final.

Most of the headlines regarding last Sunday’s St Finbarr’s-Castlehaven SFC quarter-final centred around events in the aftermath of Jason Sexton’s late equaliser for the Barrs, when a brawl broke out.

A YEAR-LONG review of the Constitution is expected to be announced in the coming weeks and could result in several more referendum proposals being put before the public.

WEXFORD have upped their campaign to introduce the clock/hooter motion to the GAA.

LAOIS chairman Brian Allen last night described the level of aggression displayed towards stewards in Sunday’s ill tempered All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final in O’Moore Park as “unprecedented.”

The Central Bank of Ireland took enforcement action against 10 financial providers, securing the disqualification of two directors and collecting fines of €5m last year.

Phil Jones was part of the Blackburn barrier that has proved so difficult for Manchester United to knock down over the years — but it is the memory of the Red Devils’ title celebrations at Ewood Park that persuaded the defender to switch clubs.

RESPECT, decency and kindness must be at the heart of any service provided to vulnerable people, Minister of State for Older People, Kathleen Lynch said yesterday.

FORTY years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in US conduct of the Vietnam War, the report has come out in its entirety.

AS dramatic denouements go, it was right up there. Needing a converted try to win, PBC Cork battered the Rockwell line through seven minutes of injury time and eventually worked Will Foley over the line with a kickable conversion seemingly to come.

CANCER services and rising fuel prices were top of the agenda when Enda Kenny carried out a whistle-stop tour of Donegal yesterday.

BLACKPOOL pulled off an impressive victory over Tottenham to move five points clear of the Barclays Premier League relegation zone last night.

UL Eagles were crowned cup champions after defeating UCC Demons in a thrilling final at the National Basketball Arena last night.

THIS country enjoys the best links golf courses in the world — it just needs to communicate the message better across the Atlantic.

MEET the musicians who are going to new heights to lift the nations’ spirit on budget day.

MICHAEL Collins, arguably, won the independence of this State through a network of highly intrusive surveillance.