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Tour de France winner Vincenzo Nibali’s Astana team avoided having their WorldTour licence withdrawn last month after cycling’s Licence Commission deemed that the punishment would be disproportionate to the doping offences committed by some of their riders last season, it has been revealed.

Barring a miracle of epic proportions on Saturday, Ireland’s strong historical connections with Bournemouth will be enhanced in the Premier League next season.

The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett tells Ed Power of his rage against the commercial makeover of their genre

Adi Roche reports on how the generosity of Irish people is helping to save the lives of seriously ill children in Eastern Ukraine, including Baby Maxim, who will undergo surgery

SINGER, actress and more recently TV cook, Angeline Ball is a woman of many parts. 

When I told a friend I was going to see the Prodigy at The Marquee, I admitted that I wasn’t quite sure if I had seen them before or not. “You haven’t seen them so,” he replied. “You’d remember.”

Romania coach Victor Piturca is looking for a minor miracle in Bucharest tonight as his side look to overturn a 3-1 deficit in their World Cup play-off second leg.

The Prodigy have been unveiled as the final headliner for next year’s Download festival.

RUSSIAN spy Anna Chapman has stripped off for a cover spread in a men’s magazine, striking a number of James Bond-style poses in her latest stunt since she left the United States.

RIOTING has killed several hundred people in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, the Red Cross said yesterday, as new reports strengthened suspicions that the violence was deliberately ignited to undermine the interim government.

Germany has evacuated 89 westerners, including 31 Americans and 40 Europeans, from the violence-torn city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan.

GARDAÍ last night said they were making good progress with their investigations into the murder of a Latvian father-of-two.

Police in a Siberian city have found the charred remains of several children and suspect they may be those of five boys who went missing in April, ending a massive three-week search, a regional prosecutor said today.

Promoters MCD confirmed award-winning band Green Day would lead the line-up on day one of the Oxegen July weekend event with American rockers Foo Fighters rounding off 48 hours of excess at Punchestown.