The latest addition to our stellar team of rugby writers reflects on the ups and downs of a magnificent playing career — and reveals the reasons why he's chosen to move to Paris to kick-start his coaching career.

Today, inspirational teenager Dónal Walsh will be buried. This is an essay he wrote about how he dealt with his two crushing cancer diagnoses

A Fine Gael TD has revealed that pro-life activists have threatened to slit her throat and burn down her house.

It's a story familiar to GAA people all over the country. A stormy annual general meeting, members walking out, transfer applications handed in afterwards.

More than 300,000 people have left Ireland in the past four years. Tempting as it is, Ruairí McKiernan is prepared to stay to help make the country a better place

DÓNAL Walsh will be buried today having fought two battles in his short life — one with cancer and one with our health service.

IF THERE'S a season for dieting then it has to be summer.

Cork 5-14 Tipperary 0-24 The Cork senior hurlers bagged five goals on the way to a five-point win over Tipperary in a challenge match at Cloughduv last night.

Paddy Power are today refunding all win and each way singles to customers who backed Ireland's Ryan Dolan for last night's Eurovision.

I love yoga but I don't love the yoga image, the squeaky clean yogi whose practice of yoga has led to a more highly evolved state of being than your average mortal.

A calculator developed by a 12-year-old girl and her Irish father has become the number one-rated app worldwide on Amazon's Android App Store.

Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person.

Founded four decades ago, its annual turnover is now €2bn.

The United Farmers Association is criticising the Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney for not doing enough to protect lower earning farmers under the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.

"Traditional capitalist models" were not working and an alternative is needed, members of the UK's Co-operative Group were told today at its AGM.

The valuation and sale of IBRC loans has been pushed out by six months to November and December of this year.

Hardly a week goes by without a minister or backbencher reminding us, usually in stern tones, that "we are borrowing €1bn a month to pay for (insert public sector worker group eg nurses') salaries".

The Irish Bank Officials Association has welcomed news that extra time has been given to the special liquidators of IBRC to sell its multi-billion euro loan book.

Ireland needs a task force to deal with immediate impacts of the fodder crisis and to develop a credible plan for future years, says Fianna Fáil's Michael Moynihan.

EMC has urged colleges to create more 'Big Data' programmes as experts predict millions of new jobs in analytics over the coming years.

As the Dáil committee hearings continue on the abortion bill, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has waded into the debate saying it is important that Christian believers "be, and seen to be, on the side of life, especially when life is most vulnerable".

Limits on rent supplement payments set by the Government are forcing thousands of families to make undeclared top-up payments to landlords to secure places to live.

North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast, a day after launching three more of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said.

WHEN Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first dreamed up the concept of a television show based in the unexplored universe of Outer Space in 1964, the world was a very different place.

The eurozone is heading towards a break up unless there are moves towards much closer political and fiscal union, according to chief economist with State Street Global Advisers, Chris Probyn.

Ireland will be able to maintain its current corporation tax code in the face of international pressure to prevent multinational corporations avoid paying their fare share of tax, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton said yesterday.

Galway 0-11 Mayo 4-16 Five minutes to go in Salthill yesterday and James Horan was still cajoling his men to sew it into Galway.

ASM Clermont Auvergne 15 Toulon 16 Not for the first time this season, a matchday performance and the result have made a mockery of the statistics.

LENNY Abrahamson has directed three feature films: Adam & Paul, Garage and What Richard Did.

Trying on clothes, said Ewart, produced "sensations which bring deep peace and perfect contentment" to the female mind.