NATIONAL Irish bank has been hit with a total bill of €64 million after a devastating report revealed widespread tax evasion and overcharging at the bank.

THE Leinster Council are to meet within the next 48 hours to determine if Offaly have forfeited their Leinster Championship victory by using one substitute too many in the three-point win over Kildare.

IT wasn’t exactly a classic and sometimes it was far from pretty...but if you’re from Munster, who cares?

St Patrick’s, Drumcondra 0-15 University of Limerick 0-19

THE Cowboys and the Jaguars worked overtime for NFL victories on Sunday.

REGRETS? You can bet there’s one or two.

BOTH the result and the manner of the victory spoke volumes: the good-looking dilettantes at Arsenal have rolled up their sleeves to fight Man Utd every inch of the way for the title.

THE Wexford dressing room was eerily quiet as players tried to come to terms with what might have been after they came back from the dead to force a replay next Saturday at the same venue.

AN apology this week, and a plea, but they are not unconnected.

PETR CECH insists Chelsea’s bad attitude cost them three points at Fulham last season and he is determined not to let it happen again.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald was accused of throwing a Cabinet colleague “under the bus” and of not being “credible”, after denying she had knowledge about a file on a Garda whistleblower.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has become embroiled in the Garda breath test “cover-up” as she and Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan faced calls to resign their positions in the Dáil.

In Flanders during the First World War, David Verbocht, a young Belgian schoolteacher, stands before a firing squad, sentenced to death as a deserter. 

When it seemed referee Jerome Garces had formally concluded the week-long obsequies for Anthony Foley with a shrill final whistle on Saturday, Axel’s comrades took to Thomond’s famed turf for one last farewell to one of the greats of Munster and Irish rugby.