Ian Rush has spent 48 hours in intensive care after becoming a suspected victim of the ‘superflu’ outbreak. The Liverpool legend was taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital last week but is now ...

Our soccer writers bring you the latest transfers of the League of Ireland off-season. Sligo Rovers have completed a permanent move for Shelbourne winger Ryan O'Kane after his successful loan spell ...

How is Uisce Éireann’s €6bn plan to pipe water from the Shannon to Dublin going to work? ‘Farmers have sold off machinery to pay drug debts’ – how gangs use violence and sexual coercion to sow fear in ...

Tottenham head coach Thomas Frank is bored of questions about the fitness of injured forward Dominic Solanke, but hopes for “good news” on him soon.

Two counties will be under a Status Orange rain warning this weekend as heavy downpours hit the west of the country.

Q This Christmas, my family and I are taking a trip to Australia to visit family. We’ll be away for three weeks, which is the longest we’ve ever left our home unattended. Should I be checking anything ...

A "very pleasant young man" who threw a knife from the back of a car after a late-night chase through south Dublin has been sent to the restorative justice programme.

Mayo’s own Craig Hughes is often asked if he would like to be full-time organising festivals like the Night and Day Festival, the one he co-founded with his uncles in 2022.

Six Christmases ago, most middle-income shoppers thought little about piling their trolleys high with groceries to see them through the festive period.

Tragedy has struck Adele ‘Twink’ King. Her beloved bird, Timberlake, died during rehearsals for a Christmas panto.

When European Commission ­president Ursula von der Leyen opened her September state of the union address with the startling words “Europe is in a fight”, little did she realise that the continent was ...

In the age of dinosaurs, before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon, a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what is now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous ...