Andy Farrell looks set to keep faith with Sam Prendergast as his starting out-half at the outset of this Six Nations and the coach needs the Kildare man to take the next step in his career by ...

Our rugby jury answer the key questions ahead of Andy Farrell naming his team to face France Ireland head coach Andy Farrell has had to contend with a host of injury withdrawals and other issues.

Convicted fraudster DJ Carey has been moved to a new prison landing where members of the Kinahan crime gang are jailed.

When my daughter was a baby, and as is the way of all first-time parents just trying to figure things out, I did the bedtime ritual that edged towards the excessive, and certainly bordered on the ...

Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard famously opens with a dead man floating face-down in a swimming pool.

Gardaí have seized €3.4m worth of benzodiazepine tablets, also known as benzos, following a raid on a number business premises in Dublin.

The board of directors of the US-Ireland Alliance has agreed its George J Mitchell Scholarship programme should no longer bear the former senator’s name over his links with the late convicted child ...

Leitrim secured a hard-fought victory over 14-man Waterford in Carrick-on-Shannon, with Ryan O’Rourke to the fore as the hosts held firm after Waterford’s Cian Kiely was dismissed on a second yellow ...

There was widespread agreement among Councillors when a motion calling for “Improvement works on the junction linking the R293 with the N17 in the light of recent accidents,” with Cllr Gerard Mullaney ...

Not since New Year’s Day, 1948 has the tournament now known as the Six Nations kicked off on a Thursday. If Andy Farrell is looking for positive omens, Ireland beat France 13-6 in Paris that day and ...

Michael Flatley wants to set the ­record straight. “Do you know any poor ­people who moved to ­Monaco?” he asked me. “How many people do you know that have no money to live in ­Monaco?” ...

The deputy lord mayor of Dublin has called for a “crackdown” on youth crime and says the State urgently needs to increase garda resources.