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DOWN SFC FINAL: Bredagh 2-12 Carryduff 0-6 Bredagh clinched their ninth Down senior title in-a-row — and Carryduff could have few complaints after a powerful second‑half surge from Mark Doran’s side.

Loughmacrory won their first Tyrone SFC title last year with a depleted squad and now with everybody back on board they’re in an even stronger position to go back-to-back.

US actor Jeremy Allen White has called for greater safeguards on social media platforms as he thinks the potential of these platforms is “scary” without regulation.

Three teenagers have died and a teenage boy has been arrested after a car entered the water in the River Wear in Sunderland, police have said.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said Manchester City could be thrown out of the Premier League after being found guilty of all charges of financial breaches by an independent commission.

Andy Burnham faces pressure to commit Labour to rejoining the EU after he promised to look at all options for a closer relationship with the bloc.

YOU have to feel for them, the Orange Order.

Trent Alexander-Arnold was handed his first England start under Thomas Tuchel as Real Madrid team-mate Jude Bellingham dropped to the bench against Czechia.

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has named Fatima Zahra Mansouri as the country’s prime minister, making the 50-year-old lawyer the first woman to hold the position in the Muslim kingdom.

Donald Trump promised the US government would not limit the development of artificial intelligence, even as top executives of AI firms that have called for delays were convening in Washington.

Graham Norton has said he does not know if he will ever have a successor as a host of a prime-time chat show.

A quantity of petrol but no explosive devices were found in the vans that sparked a major security alert near an RAF base used by the US, police have said.

A set of unheard archive Oasis recordings have been pulled from an auction after the band “sued”.

Manchester City have been found guilty of engaging in a scheme to inflate revenues and reduce costs by almost £1billion over a nine-season period by an independent commission.

Children at football training were forced to flee a cross-community sports hub in Derry as petrol bombs were thrown at police during sectarian violence, it has been claimed.

The case for raising interest rates is “not compelling” unless energy prices stay higher for longer and have a bigger knock-on effect on the wider economy, a Bank of England policymaker has said.

Breandán Mac Cionnaith: ‘No parade is no parade’

Steven Knight has said the BBC should sell TV licences in the US for Americans who want to get “unbiased news”.

The Prince and Princess of Wales surprised Sir Kevin Sinfield on the latest stage of his final endurance event to raise money for motor neurone disease charities, telling him what he was doing was “so inspiring”.

A top doctor for NHS Tayside says there was a missed opportunity to stop a disgraced brain surgeon from operating long before his eventual resignation, an inquiry has heard.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, her National Rally party and its allies have closed ranks behind her running mate in next year’s presidential election, Jordan Bardella, in the face of media accusations that he made antisemitic remarks as a young pa…

Stephen Graham has confirmed the roles which will be played by him and his co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale in a spin-off to Hollywood blockbuster Heat.

Russia fired ballistic missiles and dozens of jet-powered drones at Kyiv, Ukraine’s air force said on Tuesday, as Moscow seeks to make Ukraine buckle under the pressure of day-and-night bombardment of its capital and other cities.

Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18 by an independent commission, the league has said.

Scenes in Garvaghy on day three of stand-off

The triple lock “hot potato” has finally been grasped, although the policy has helped to improve pensioner living standards and is particularly relied upon by people on low incomes, experts have said.

The Prince and Princess of Wales praised the generation of Leeds Rhinos players that looked up to Rob Burrow as one fundraised in his memory.

A Co Antrim man allegedly used a blowtorch lighter to burn his girlfriend’s hair in a fit of jealousy, a court heard on Tuesday.

ITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall has said the company initiated the deal for Sky to buy ITV’s media and entertainment division.

An inquest has heard how a woman who killed a man in a hit and run collision ate a McDonald’s happy meal and fell asleep after leaving the scene.

Drivers are being warned to take extra care on the UK’s roads as the peak season for deer-vehicle collisions approaches.

Northern Ireland’s performance in Monday’s 0-0 draw with Hungary had pretty much everything except a goal but Trai Hume is taking encouragement from the positions they are getting themselves into.

First Minister John Swinney has said Andy Burnham is “repeating the mistakes of Keir Starmer” as the Prime Minister confirmed reform to the pensions triple lock.

A battery which caused a fire in which a mother and her three children died was for an e-scooter, it has been confirmed.

GAA Handball has launched a new Strategic Plan that sets out a road map to grow participation, strengthen clubs and increase the visibility of the sport over the next four years, 2027-2030.

Andy Burnham became emotional as he spoke of his late father during his Labour Party conference speech.

THE Ladies Gaelic Football Association has confirmed its Master Fixtures Plan for 2027.

Michelle O’Neill has signalled that will answer questions about the weekend events on the Garvaghy Road in the Assembly next Monday.

Garvaghy Road residents have lodged an appeal after the High Court threw out an application to challenge the Drumcree parade at the weekend.

The Prime Minster has unveiled plans for new laws to pave the way for public ownership of failing water firms, and vowed a 10-year path to a “very different water system” in the UK.

Two of the founders of the Titanic Distillery in Belfast have secured fresh finance to expand their growing Freight Island hospitality concept in England.

Co Antrim priest has been described as “loving, compassionate and tuned-in’ after he died following a ‘freak accident’ in which he suffered a serious spinal injury.

FOUR Derry-based schools fought out the finals of the FMC Appliances Ulster Schools’ Sevens Cup and Shield competitions yesterday in windy Portglenone.

Andy Burnham has set out a radical plan to transform Britain, with proposals to reform the state pension triple lock to pay for social care, measures to pave the way for public control of water companies and a potential change in the UK’s electoral system.

A Co Antrim man who admitted stealing money from M&S whilst employed by the company was made the subject of an 18-month Probation Order on Tuesday.

Concern Worldwide is aiming to “make charity shops cool again” with a Sustainable Fashion Week encouraging people to give second-hand clothes a new lease of life.

New Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra has said his aim is for the party to win next Holyrood election in five years time, but he conceded they are a “long way from that” at the moment.

Andy Burnham pledged to tackle the issues politicians “usually avoid” in his first Labour Party conference speech as leader.

Former Norwich City Football Club joint majority shareholder Michael Wynn Jones has been remembered as a “beloved husband” to Delia Smith in a post on the celebrity chef’s social media.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says the decision to allow the Drumcree parade to go ahead was “choreographed far too tight, far too dangerous”, and that the stand-off that followed was inevitable.