James Sweeney scored two goals as Munster champions Sarsfields regained the Cork Premier SHC title with a seven-point victory over Midleton.

Connacht scrum-half Caolin Blade is hoping to add to his three Irish caps after getting the nod from Andy Farrell during the week that he was slotting him as the third No.9 along with Jamison ...

Leo Cullen didn’t spare his Leinster charges after they were soundly beaten at home to Munster at Croke Park, with the coach saying his side were beaten by Munster’s “hard work, grit and determination ...

Sam Rivers, the bassist and founding member of the US nu metal group Limp Bizkit, has died aged 48, the band has announced.

The campaign to make the once temporary 9pc Vat rate permanent will likely go down in the annals of Irish lobbying history as among the most successful ever fought.

I sat on the Ladies Gaelic football All Star committee for four seasons and had the honour and responsibility of giving my opinion and casting my vote on the players to be nominated and then chosen ...

I wonder is President Michael Higgins tearing his hair out as he packs his suitcases at the Áras. Are the pretenders to his throne driving him demented? He could be forgiven for feeling a shiver up ...

How Irish players scaled golf’s summit’ by Dermot Gilleece. Late on a Sunday afternoon at Carnoustie in July 2007, Ireland found a new golfing hero. Dating back to Michael Moran at Hoylake in 1913, a ...

When Athlone Town’s Chloe Singleton walked into Tolka Park on that August afternoon last year ahead of a big top-of-the-table clash, the Mater hospital was the last place she expected to find herself.

For the nine months he has been in office, ­Donald Trump has courted Vladimir Putin assiduously, to no avail. In a major boost to the Russian president, the pair met in Alaska in August but “Vladimir” ...

The important moments in our history tend to happen far from Áras an Uachtaráin. You would be better ­looking ­towards Dáil Éireann, at meetings behind closed doors, or even at crowds gathered in ...

Fifty-two years of hurt is over. St John’s are Antrim champions once more as they beat Loughgiel Shamrocks by the narrowest of margins in Ballycastle on Sunday afternoon.