Tipperary’s Brendan Cummins claimed a record ninth M Donnelly All-Ireland Poc Fada title on Saturday in the Cooley Mountains, but the event wasn’t without controversy with uncertainty over who claimed the camogie title.

Wexford kept alive their four-in-a-row hopes with a gritty 1-11 to 1-10 All-Ireland senior camogie quarter-final victory over Offaly at Portlaoise on Saturday.

Defending champion Brendan Cummins, who is chasing his seventh All-Ireland Poc Fada title, will have to beat some of hurling's best talents in the final on Annaverna Mountain next month.

As the Dáil dives into its long summer recess, political correspondent Shaun Connolly assesses the highs and lows of another year-long ride on the Oireachtas rollercoaster

The world’s first “urban poc fada” takes place in Carrick -on-Suir this afternoon as part of the Clancy Brothers Festival.

A new cross border bridge has been given the green light after Stormont stumped up its share of the £14m (€16.3m) construction funding.

A HUMAN ribbon of sorrow bound Dundalk together yesterday as the town’s quiet grief for fallen garda Adrian Donohoe rippled out across a watching nation.

Post mortems will be carried out today on the bodies of two men found dead in a burned out car at a border forest.

Detectives were tonight investigating if two men were shot dead before their bodies were found in a burning car close to the border.

Missing persons records were being examined tonight after two unidentified people were found burnt to death in a car close to the border.

Beam Inc., a global spirits company, has bought Cooley Distillery, the award-winning Irish whiskey producer.

It was a Derry double in the Ulster Poc Fada finals at Belfast's Divis mountain on Saturday as Ruairi Convery and Kathleen Taggart took the honours.

Any wandering Leprechauns should head to County Louth, as the EU has now granted them a protected zone on Cooley Mountains.

THE Defence Forces has ruled out calls for the suspension of the use of army trucks for moving army personnel following a multi-vehicle collision on the M50 yesterday in which 28 soldiers were injured.

Tipperary goalkeeper Brendan Cummins retained his M Donnelly All-Ireland Poc Fada title at the Cooley Mountains in Louth today in wet conditions.

THIS year’s first All-Ireland junior championship semi-final takes place tomorrow when Cork take on Wexford, while, on Sunday, Roscommon take the long road to Strangford to take on Down in the other semi-final.

A hill-walker injured on Slieve Foy on the Cooley Mountains yesterday is in a critical condition in Dublin's Beaumont Hospital.

GARDAÍ hope to interview mother-of-three Helen Judge today or tomorrow in a bid to piece together who kidnapped her and why.

THEY came in the dead of night to snatch mother-of-three Helen Judge, grabbing her from the modest bungalow in Kildare she shared with two sons and their grandmother.

A WOMAN who suffered a 48-hour kidnap ordeal may have been the unwitting victim of an underworld drug debt row sparked by a string of recent seizures.

DAVID FITZGERALD, who will keep goal for Clare in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Waterford at Croke Park on Sunday, last night won his second national title at the Poc Fada Finals in the Cooley Mountains, Dundalk.

The Republic waits today for the results of tests on a sheep blood sample that could confirm the country’s second case of foot-and-mouth.

Concern is growing over wild sheep that have been grazing on the Cooley Mountains.

The ban on animal exports has been retained by Agriculture Minister Joe Walsh following a double outbreak of foot-and-mouth at Proleek, Co Louth.

The Government is seeking exclusion from a US ban on all imports of meat, animals and animal products from the EU.