The former garda confidential recipient, Oliver Connolly, declined a request by the Department of Justice to repudiate an alleged transcript of a conversation he had with a garda whistleblower.

The man who delivered pizza to actors during the Oscars ceremony revealed he thought he was only going to be feeding backstage staff at the awards ceremony.

Martin O’Neill is relishing the prospect of a return to Celtic Park in November.

The GAA will next month embark on a six-week blitz of the 32 counties to educate Gaelic football referees on the forthcoming black card rule.

A packed courtroom yesterday erupted into laughter after ‘Guantanamo Granny’ — 79-year-old anti-war activist Margaretta Darcy — blew a whistle and declared: “I am a whistleblower”.

Already battered and bruised from Sunday’s exertions in Toulouse, Connacht will be without Michael Swift for the return leg on Saturday in the Galway Sportsground.

Pat McEnaney is against the introduction of the black card in hurling but does see a use in having two referees.

Pat McEnaney is against the introduction of the black card in hurling but does see a use in having two referees.

IT WAS tough on Joe McHugh last week. Not a wet second into the job and already people were questioning his abilities.

A planning application to transform the State’s largest toxic waste dump into vast public parkland as part of a €40m clean-up is due to be lodged within weeks.

IN DUBLIN to promote my book, the taxi drops me at a Georgian house-hotel next to the Dáil.

As Limerick won a first Munster senior hurling title since 1996 at the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday, one man with a grandstand view has a unique link to Limerick past and Limerick future.

Saturday’s siege will come from all angles but amidst all the chaos and carnage that Cardiff will deliver Rory Best knows that Paul O’Connell will lead Ireland’s ground offensive just as he has 99 times before.

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The referee at the centre of Diego Maradona’s Hand of God goal at the 1986 World Cup has broken his silence about his decision to award one of the football’s most controversial goals to Argentina — and has claimed it was not his fault.

Whistleblowers whose concerns are ignored within their own organisation cannot be criticised for taking their complaints elsewhere, according to a former Garda commissioner.

The shady world of corrupt government and ruthless companies bribing them to win lucrative contracts is normally associated with the third world.

Our manager continued his war with the media this week by doing his best surly teenager impression.

Gordon Greer has revealed he has been given the inside track on Gibraltar ahead of Scotland’s Euro qualifier against the Group D minnows at Hampden Park tomorrow (kick-off 5pm). 

Al-Shabab gunmen rampaged through a university in northeastern Kenya at dawn yesterday, killing 147 people in the group’s deadliest attack in the East African country. Four militants were slain by security forces to end the siege just after dusk.