1+ day, 12+ min ago  (168+ words) The trauma will be difficult for this ageing Irish province to overcome...

3+ hour, 39+ min ago  (867+ words) No tears, no hard luck stories, just a grim acceptance they had been well beaten. Leinster's second-half performance was another indicator of their continuing spirit and resolve in the face of yet more wounding blows. But by then the die…...

5+ min ago  (656+ words) Two years after losing the race by the tightest of margins, Conn Mc Dunphy retained the yellow jersey after the final stage of the R's Tailteann on Sunday to lift the coveted George Plant trophy. The 29-year-old, who grew up…...

28+ min ago  (109+ words) The Irish Times The Castro regime benefitted from Soviet aid and oil supplies after the 1962 nuclear missile crisis. That fell away in the early 1990s, when oil imports and trade with Latin America compensated. Cuba has gone through openness and closure,…...

30+ min ago  (458+ words) A total of 34 men were deported from Ireland to Poland and Lithuania on Sunday on the grounds of criminality, Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has said. According to the Minister, the charter removal flight had 22 Polish and 12 Lithuanian nationals on…...

38+ min ago  (829+ words) After the final whistle, one young Cork supporter breached the security cordon and scampered across the field, raising the loudest cheer since Cork's goal, nearly an hour earlier. Though there were 42, 269 people in the stadium, the atmosphere in the second…...

39+ min ago  (352+ words) Kerry manager Mark Bourke said they are heading into the All-Ireland series in a good position after holding off Waterford to capture the Munster Senior Women's Football crown for the third year in a row. "I think we're getting closer…...

51+ min ago  (406+ words) Temperatures are to reach as high as 27 degrees over the next two days, as Ireland continues to bask in sunshine amid the current warm spell. Sunday continued the weekend's warm, sunny weather following an unusually cold May, with temperatures generally…...

57+ min ago  (549+ words) Fiosr, which investigates complaints made against garda, conducted itself in an "unacceptable" manner when the first complaint was made about serial abuser and now former garda Paul Moody, the head of the Garda watchdog body, Emily Logan, has said. Moody…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago  (352+ words) Tyrone manager Malachy O'Rourke says his players were determined to deliver a strong performance at Dr Hyde Park to honour Frank Mc Guigan. Widely regarded as one of Tyrone's greatest players, and affectionally known as "The King', Mc Guigan died…...