Marriage counsellors have warned that Euro 2016 could trigger the final whistle for hundreds of rocky relationships across Ireland, as tensions among couples reach an all-time high.

Oireachtas authorities are set to open an investigation into the cross-party banking inquiry after an internal whistleblower claimed some witnesses have received “preferential treatment” — including briefings over dinners days before public grillings.

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Eoin Reilly was intent on not getting caught. He’d retrieve his picture from the O’Moore Park turf and slip away from the sprinkling of Laois fans gathered close to goal.

Limerick minor hurling manager Leo O’Connor took issue with the amount of injury time played at the end of the second-half.

After taking some heat for the penalty decision which changed the course of the Munster final in Killarney a few weeks ago, Padraig Hughes erred on the side of caution in Cavan on Saturday night.

The president of Cork Institute of Technology has claimed that allegations made against the college by an anonymous whistle-blower were “almost entirely malicious falsehoods” that were “intended to damage the good name of CIT, its governors, and staff”.

The Government has been accused of a deliberate attempt to hide documents key to the Siteserv controversy.

Manager Alex Neil says Norwich are looking forward with confidence as they return to the Barclays Premier League next season and that they will not just be there to make up the numbers.

The days of Ireland’s starting 11 being alluded to, or even revealed, by Giovanni Trapattoni 24 hours before games are long gone.

Rugby Europe is to analyse the performance of the Romanian referee in charge of Belgium’s controversial upset of Spain this weekend in a meeting on Friday.

On arriving outside the Ludgate Hub in Skibbereen, Co Cork, Minister Michael Ring was told that he’d brought the sunny weather with him. “We have it 52 weeks a year, so we have,” came the instant reply.

Rank-and-file gardaí have said the breath test scandal was “entirely” the fault of Garda management and warned they would not be “scapegoated”.

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A man walked into a bank in Ireland during the Celtic Tiger and demanded €3m to set up a nightclub in Dublin, which he was granted with scarcely any background check, according to Robert Webb of Nottingham University, who is trying to figure out why this happened.

The Garda Ombudsman said it “does not anticipate difficulties” in its high-profile investigation into the penalty point controversy.