The US ambassador to Ireland believes that if Barack Obama wins a second term in office, he will make a return trip to Ireland.

Work on the new Thornton Hall prison in Dublin will begin later this year.

Munster are leading the Heineken Cup final against Toulouse 10-6 at half-time.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has told an audience in the United States that it would be an "act of lunacy" for Ireland to reject the Lisbon Treaty.

Antrim 0-08 Waterford 1-08

Kilkenny 2-17 Galway 1-18(aet)

MARTIN SLUDDEN will have to wait to take charge of his first senior inter-county championship game since last July’s controversial Leinster final after the GAA announced a change to the referee arrangements for next Sunday’s Ulster quarter-final between Cavan and Donegal with Sligo whistler Marty Duffy now set to officiate the match.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan was just whistling past the Republican plot in Glasnevin on his way to the Dáil chamber yesterday afternoon.

EDDIE O’Sullivan has hit out at accusations by Felipe Contepomi that Ireland set out to deliberately unsettle the Argentineans during last Saturday’s test match — and told the Puma No 10: “I’m disappointed in you.”

JEREMY PHIPPS resigned from his position as director of security at the Jockey Club last night, conceding in a letter to senior steward Christopher Spence that his role had become ‘‘untenable’’ and that he had caused ‘‘embarrassment, for which I apologise most sincerely’’.

WEXFORD hurling club Oylegate-Glebrien, which is home club to county chairman Sean Quirke, are demanding a full investigation into an assault on one of their players during the weekend.

Climate change activists have demanded that the Government respond strongly to the climate crisis.