Pictured at the launch of Gaisce's - the President's Award new Strategic Plan are, right, Caitlin Curley (from Banagher) and fellow youth ambassador Caoilfhinn Young from Palmerstown, Dublin. Photo: Tony Maxwell, Maxwell Photography. Offaly youths represent the county at President's Award launchTwo Offaly teenagers represented the county as Gaisce Youth Ambassadors at the recent launch of a new Strategic Plan (2026 to 2030) for the Gaisce – President's Award. Photo: Tony Maxwell, Maxwell Photography. For each award, participants must undertake challenging activities including personal skill, community involvement, physical recreation, and an adventure journey, with each award level requiring a greater level of time and commitment.

Faithful county pool players ready for All-Ireland challengeEight talented teenagers from Offaly are gearing themselves to represent the county at this weekend's All-Ireland Junior Championships in Rosslare, Wexford. Conor Cahill, Ethan Henchy, Fiachra Tooher and Jack Fay will represent the Offaly Pool Association in the U15s competition, while Billy Dunne, Adam Wynne, Liam Dunne and Sean O'Reilly take up the challenge on behalf of the county U18 team. The teams are managed by Chris Bradley and Sean Wynne respectively. The competitions begin in Wexford and Friday, March 27 and are due to run until Sunday, March 29.

Shots fired at property in east BelfastBy Jonathan McCambridge, Press AssociationPolice are investigating after shots were fired at a house in east Belfast. The incident was reported on Wednesday at 8.30pm in the Tamery Pass area of the city. Nobody was present at the property and no injuries were reported. The incident caused damage to the front and rear windows. Police are working to establish a motive for the attack.

Everyone Arsenal signed with James Ellis as head of recruitment rated and slated as he quitsArsenal's former head of recruitment and technical director James Ellis has announced his exit after nearly five yearsView 7 Images Arsenal will bid goodbye to their head of recruitment (Image: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)Arsenal are set to lose their former head of recruitment and technical director, James Ellis, following nearly five years and over £560million splashed out in transfers. ‌Under Ellis' supervision as head of recruitment, the Gunners brought in 17 players between 2023 and 2025. ‌The 46-year-old joined Arsenal as a senior scout from Fulham, ascending to the position of head of recruitment two years later. ‌Neto – Bournemouth (Season-long loan) - 3/10Neto signed for Arsenal on a season-long loan from Bournemouth on deadline day. Despite these heroics, Eze has contributed 15 goals in 43 appearances for Arsenal and has shown only sporadic moments of brilliance.

Stones will be 32 by the time the World Cup starts but it's not his age that's the issue, it's his failure to spend enough time on the field. This is a duo that has every chance of starting the opening World Cup game against Croatia in Dallas in mid-June. Tuchel has a huge regard for Dan Burn and he will be in the squad for the World Cup for sure. Now we have reached a point where we wonder whether there is room for all of them in the same 26-man World Cup squad. Tuchel feels he can do the creative part of the job while exhibiting the positional and team discipline that Bellingham lacks.

HSE Southwest is now expanding its review of children’s mental health services in north Kerry to cover all children seen before November 2022. At the time, the Irish Examiner highlighted calls for that lookback review to be extended further in the north Kerry child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) as well as south Kerry. On Thursday, HSE South West said it is “commissioning a comprehensive clinically-led further file review covering the period during which it had governance of CAMHS in North Kerry". The HSE confirmed the review will start from 2014, when it first took over the CAMHS team in north Kerry. It will also review cases of children or young people where there is evidence of polypharmacy, meaning taking multiple medications.

A woman who had her life saved by AI technology has revealed how her breast cancer was caught before the 'human eye could detect it' in a medical trial. Yvonne Cook was diagnosed with breast cancer back in 2023 after an experimental AI flagged a potential abnormality that otherwise would have gone undetected. 'We checked those women [with the AI flagging] and we found 10% more cancers in the women, including Yvonne's one,' he added. Taking to This Morning, Debra was joined by her cousin Sue, 65, and niece Gemma, 35, all of whom tested positive for the BRCA gene, which heightens the risk of breast cancer. Since having the surgery on her ovaries, Debra went on to have a check for the BCRA gene, given her mother had passed away from breast cancer in 2018.

A security guard who left the stepdaughter of footballer Jorginho in tears has said he was not working for singer Chappell Roan during an incident at a hotel in Brazil. “I was at the hotel on behalf of another individual, and I was not part of the personal security team of Chappell Roan. The actions I took were not on behalf of Chappell Roan, her personal security team, her management, or any other individuals.”Chappell Roan has since said she was not aware of the incident and the security guard in question was not part of her personal detail. Ms Harding said a security guard then approached them to “berate and scold” them and spoke in an “aggressive tone”. Ms Roan has since said she was not aware of the incident and the security guard was not part of her personal detail.

The reference points for Munster successes are everywhere in South Africa after some thrilling moments in Durban, Cape Town and Pretoria. Yet John Hodnett knows they will count for nothing if the tourists fail to show their true selves against the Bulls at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday. “Maybe the last couple of years, we've done quite well at this time of season,” Hodnett said. John Hodnett attempts to get past Jason Jenkins and Nick Hatton in Durban. “Loftus, it's a very, very hard place to win and not many teams have gone there and won before.

Private health insurance problemArthur was insured with a private health insurance company. He submitted a claim to the health insurance company in March 2024 for reimbursement and did not hear back so sent further communication looking for an update. There were more delays by the insurance company, including a failure to return calls to Arthur. Sinéad was told by the Local Authority that it was liaising with the insurance company, but no details were provided. When the FSPO received evidence of a complaint to the broker, it wrote to the broker requesting it review the complaint file.

Croissants, baguettes and even breakfast cereals could be exposing millions to a cancer-linked toxic metal, French health chiefs have warned. Croissants could be exposing millions to a cancer-linked toxic metal, French health chiefs warn'If current exposure levels are maintained and no action is put in place, long-term adverse effects are likely to increase across the population,' she said. The findings are likely to spark concern in Britain, where many of the same foods form a cornerstone of the national diet. Cadmium also exists as several compounds due to it combining with other elements, including oxygen to form cadmium oxide, chlorine to form cadmium chloride or sulphur to form cadmium sulphate. Food and cigarette smoke are the biggest sources of cadmium exposure for people in the general population.

‌Howe's side sit in the bottom half and their lack of consistency means that Champions League football looks beyond them. These are all players who would be in and amongst the starting XI at a top Premier League side. Arsenal were credited with interest in Tonali in January and Gordon was tipped for a move to Liverpool two summers ago. None of those switches materialised, but it serves to underline the interest that exists in Newcastle's brightest and best. PSR certainly exists as a hurdle for Newcastle, but it is not the immovable object it can sometimes be made out to be.

Meet the Irish-Icelandic woman from Heimir Hallgrimsson’s home town travelling to Prague to cheer on the Boys in GreenPlenty of expats in Reykjavik will be roaring on the Boys in Green tonightGudrun Mary and husband BjarniKaren McHugh Today at 06:30Tickets for Ireland’s do-or-die play-off against Czechia tonight are in such demand that even Heimir Hallgrimsson’s Icelandic neighbours found it imposs­ible to snag a few.

I don’t do drugs or drink alcohol any more, but recently I was absolutely high off a DIY bender. A month ago I moved to a new house and commenced some very low-grade DIY projects and I swear I’ve never felt so alive. After hanging a particularly heavy picture, I actually found myself having the thought “Why isn’t there a Nobel Prize for DIY?” The key to being a really successful DIYer is to have high ambitions and really, really low standards. He enjoys drawing a single task out over many days and leaving all the necessary tools scattered in the vicinity. He’s also reluctant to simply pick up a hammer and whack something that’s not working – and that’s a key tenet of the amateur DIY way.

Kitchens and dining areas should be mandatory in all new build schools as part of a bid to improve the State’s hot school meal offering, TDs and senators have recommended. The report was compiled after several public meetings with stakeholders regarding the scheme, which provides hot meals at lunchtime to all children in Irish primary schools. The committee recommended that school meals should be prepared on site in schools from scratch, with children eating together in a communal setting. Read More A third of hot school meals do not meet basic nutritional standards, minister saysThe Department of Social Protection currently oversees the hot school meals scheme. The committee further called for home economics to be made mandatory in all primary and post-primary schools as part of SPHE/wellbeing programmes.