Ulster came from behind to beat Leicester Tigers 14-13 at Welford Road and book themselves a spot in the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-finals. With Munster and Connacht also tasting victory, this…
The GAA has abandoned the controversial three-handpass limit ahead of the beginning of the National Football Leagues next weekend. At a meeting of the GAA’s Central Council at Croke Park yesterday…
Despite playing with 13 men for the second half, Galway denied Wexford back-to-back Walsh Cup hurling titles thanks to 13 Joe Canning points at Enniscorthy. The 1-23 to 0-20 win ensured Galway’s…
Two stories. One ending. At the end of the Connacht junior hurling final last November Olcan Conway from Carrick-on-Shannon was lost in the moment as John Connolly from the Leitrim Observer came…
Darren McCurry kicked nine points as Tyrone claimed a seventh Dr McKenna Cup title in eight years at the Athletic Grounds. It was a bad-tempered clash of two fierce local rivals, with referee Joe…
In the autumn of 2007 Liam Sheedy met the young trainer of the Limerick footballers in the Abbey Court Hotel in Nenagh. Cian O’Neill was being head-hunted and in that process there is an implicit…
President Trump said Saturday he supported temporary protections from deportation for some undocumented immigrants in the U.S. in exchange for $5.7 billion to build the southern border wall.
The Gibraltar FA have called on Uefa not to move the European Championship qualifier against the Republic of Ireland away from the Rock, ahead of a decision on the matter by the ruling body this week.
As the Nottingham Forest manager Martin O’Neill was winding up proceedings on his return to the City Ground on Thursday, I put it to him that perhaps it wasn’t such a bad thing after all that he…
Ten days ago, in the throes of the House of Commons debate about Theresa May’s EU withdrawal deal, the Labour MP John Mann raised concerns about the Aintree Grand National. He characterised it as a…
Allow the healing power of this forest environment and awe-inspiring structure to sing you into complete relaxation, imagination and reflection,” says the promotional material advertising a holiday…
In the 1990s, Trinity Buoy Wharf, in east London, was an industrial wasteland of abandoned warehouses beside the Thames. The area, in Tower Hamlets, which was once bustling with maritime activity…
In the current market, it’s cheaper to buy No 107 Fitzwilliam Point, in Ringsend, than to rent it. That’s what scores of Dublin’s investors will be thinking, too, when they clap eyes on this…
This stone-clad detached country home is in Croghan, in rural Co Roscommon, 7km from Carrick-on-Shannon. Since the Irish countryside is dominated by unimaginative bungalows, Canbo, an architect-…
I remember a time when all the big interiors players, from the high street to high end, were roughly on the same page when it came to trends. Not any more. This year, it’s almost impossible to…
Cooking up the wow factor: Dublin 9 €490,000 The last house to sell on St Clement’s Road, in Drumcondra, was No 25’s next-door neighbour, which fetched its asking price of €525,000 in August. It…
Terenure was once lost in a game of cards to Cromwell’s soldiers. They were encouraged to return it to a young buck of the landowning Barnewell family. Later, it was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941…
When Johnny Martin went sale-agreed on No 25 Traverslea Wood in October 2015, the property market was rebounding fast. A number of apartments had come on the market at Traverslea Wood, a…
Don’t you love it when you’re walking along on a cold winter day, and a flower fragrance surprises your nose? Suddenly everything seems better. Scent has a powerful effect on the psyche: it sends…
Making the move to a new home should be an exciting time. Often, though, it is a thing of dread — and rightly so. It can take longer than expected, run over budget and result in you wanting to pull…
Two years before Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert took to the small screen as Lisa and Oliver Douglas in the 1960s American sitcom Green Acres, an Irish couple had already decided that farm livin’ was…
Forget the #10yearchallenge that’s doing the rounds on Instagram and Facebook. Why would you want to go through the self-flagellation of comparing a 2009 photograph of yourself with one in 2019?
After banging on all Christmas and new year about how electric cars are going to be the big motoring trend of 2019, this week I’m back behind the wheel of an internal combustion-engined dinosaur.
Fifth-year students from St Eunan’s College in Letterkenny are huddled around laptops with all the intensity of teenagers battling it out in an online video game. But rather than playing Fortnite…
President Trump on Saturday offered in a televised address protections from deportation for some undocumented immigrants in the U.S. in exchange for $5.7 billion to build the southern border wall.
Investors might not be able to ignore a partial U.S. government shutdown if it continues much longer, analysts say.
Taste is probably the primary reason why most of us drink wine. If there was an oenological equivalent of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, taste would be the most important requirement, followed by (in…
Why is the taste and texture of the tomatoes we are offered in local shops and supermarkets so poor? Many of us, I suspect, could come up with reasons within a couple of seconds, fingering mass…
Seaweed has become increasingly popular in the culinary world over the past few years, but we seem slow to include it in our weekly repertoire at home. That’s a pity, because not only is it so…
The year 2019 may go down in history as when veganism went mainstream. It is no longer just about the food — the tofu, textured vegetable protein, tempeh and seitan, chickpeas and lentils, nut…
Rex Ryan is a stage and screen actor who runs his own theatre company. The son of the broadcaster Gerry Ryan, he was involved in youth theatre before training at the Gaiety School of Acting. The…
Held by the Galway Astronomy Club at the Harbour hotel in the heart of Galway city, the annual Galway Astrofest makes an otherwise intimidating subject accessible to complete novices. Learn the…
I was blessed with a childhood that was pure joy. My parents, Michael and Ann, instilled a confidence in me that boosted me through life. I wish I knew how they did it; I grew up feeling…
There are two things you can do when controversy strikes: say nothing and let the storm pass, or go public and deal openly and frankly with the issue. On receipt of a critical letter from 312…
Traumatic disappearances are a torment for the protagonists and the producers of season three of True Detective, the crime anthology series that began as a trailblazer but quickly degenerated into…
Theatre The Ridleys “Plays are tuning forks for the zeitgeists around them,” English playwright Philip Ridley once said. If so, we’re in trouble. This double bill of monologues by Ridley tells the…
Social and political attitudes to the big house in Ireland have been extensively analysed since the 1980s. By contrast, the less visible role of the state and its permanent government of mostly…
Inspiration can come from the most unlikely places. For Kojaque, it came from above. At the age of 16, he went to see Odd Future, an American hip-hop collective, at an Irish festival. During the…
Genevieve O’Reilly has always been acting. Born in Dublin, she moved to Australia when she was 10. It was 1987 and her young, spirited parents wanted more for the family than recessionary Ireland…
Not getting picked for the senior cup team at Blackrock College was probably the making of Niall Woods’s rugby career. It made him all the more determined. “I wasn’t always very good. I was very…
Selina McCarthy lived abroad for 12 years before coming home to Dublin last year to set up Reflektor, an employer brand consultancy. She has extensive experience in the field, having worked in…
Merrion Fleet founder David Hurley has just backed HR Foods, a consumer foods distributor where former Anglo Irish Bank top bod Tiarnan O’Mahoney recently came on board. Hurley is still chief…
The American poet Robert Frost wrote: “Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less travelled by.” We often face choices in life that can have a bearing on our financial position. The…
Pat McDonagh was stuck in a meeting last Monday when his phone bleeped with a message from Eilish Fleming, the brand manager for his Supermac’s fast-food chain. She was working on the company’s…
How do you go about choosing a personal finance adviser — where to start, what to look for, and what about fees?A Finnegan, Dublin The key to finding a suitable financial adviser is to work out…