Christmas arrives. Die Hard is on. Only this year it doesn’t involve Bruce Willis climbing up an elevator chute and killing baddies. No, this year Die Hard took place at the reconvened FAI AGM.

At the end of a tumultuous year for the Irish football, delegates will on Sunday face into a third emergency general meeting of the Football Association of Ireland in 2019.

The motorsport careers of Derry’s Josh McErlean and Kildare’s James Roe Jnr. received a major boost in terms of finance and prestige after they were honoured at the MIS Motorsport Champions of Irish Motorsport awards ceremony at the Citywest Hotel, Dublin yesterday.

Seamus Coleman says he regrets that Ireland weren’t able to put on “a show” for the fans at the Aviva last night.

Irish rallying hope the profits generated from this weekend’s IMSF Mondello 50 will help defray the rising costs of insurance and offset financial risks facing the sport.

It was the Tuesday evening after Galway’s All-Ireland final win that the magnitude of their achievement finally registered with Conor Cooney.

David Fitzgerald had it all in his mind, but how to make it a reality?

The position of Dublin hurling manager remains vacant after no white smoke emerged from last night’s county board meeting.

Following a record-breaking season of ladies football championship action, the 45 nominees for the 2017 TG4 All-Star team have been revealed.

The decision was taken by a special convention of ASTI members.

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All-Ireland champions Kilkenny and finalists Cork dominate the Camogie All-Stars 2016 shortlist.

Gardaí say they are monitoring radicalisation in Ireland and that education is key to understanding

The operators of the 3Arena are among appellants in relation to recent permission for increased audience capacity for concerts at the Citywest centre in south Dublin.

Enda Kenny spoke for almost half an hour live on TV and radio without saying anything, according to Daniel McConnell.

Six-time Irish amateur champion Con Sheehan got his professional career off to a winning start with a points victory over Jonathan Rice in Los Angeles.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Joan Burton have batted away growing claims of a November election, insisting it is just speculation and that whoever is doing it “needs to stop”.

Dublin’s Philly McMahon is in line to pick up the 2015 footballer-of-the-year award, having been named on the all-Dublin three-person shortlist.

I would like to take issue with some of the points Tony Considine made in his article ( ‘Ruthless Kilkenny’s monopoly is hurting hurling’, September 8).

A security company has been granted a temporary High Court order preventing several anti-eviction activists from organising a protest at the Irish Country and Western Music Awards ceremony at Dublin’s Citywest Hotel later this month.

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Quick Fit Car, in Little Island, Cork, has been crowned the best garage in Ireland, collecting the ‘independent workshop of the year 2015’ award at the Irish Auto Trade Association’s awards ceremony in the Citywest Hotel, Dublin.

Kearys is celebrating the launch of Kearys’ Motorworld, the new state-of-the-art Nissan dealership on the Carrigrohane Road, and formerly the premises of Windsor Motors.

The TG4 Ladies Football All Star Awards took place at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin last night with 15 All Star Awards presented to the winning players along with Player's Player of the Year awards.

Katie Taylor will return to the ring for the first time since clinching Olympic glory when she fights Poland’s Karolina Graczyk at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin on February 22.

Clare champions, The Banner, go in search of their first Munster Senior A ladies football championship title tonight in Kilmallock (8pm).

For those who wonder if Sunday’s All-Ireland final replay triumph is finally the end of an era for Kilkenny, the end of the greatest hurling team ever seen, Jackie Tyrrell has one message — forget about it.

The GAA’s family funzone will be available to supporters visiting Croke Park once again this Sunday.

A group of Cork students who have been campaigning to establish a national day for missing people were last night named as Young Social Innovators of the year 2012.

Paddy Barnes joined David Oliver Joyce, Adam Nolan and Tommy McCarthy in the quarter-finals of the AIBA European Olympic qualifying event with an inside the distance win in Trabzon, Turkey yesterday.

BRIAN BROSNAN became the first Irish fighter to win a gold medal in full contact kickboxing at the WAKO World Kickboxing Championships in Dublin on Saturday night.

ALL-IRELAND champions Cork dominated the O’Neills/TG4 Ladies Gaelic Football All Stars at a gala function at the CityWest Hotel on Saturday night.

All Ireland winners Cork have collected six All-Star awards at the 2011 O'Neills/TG4 Ladies Gaelic Football All Star Awards at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, while beaten finalists Monaghan gained some consolation by claiming four awards.

All-Ireland Senior Camogie champions Wexford and beaten finalists Galway received six All-Star awards apiece at the eighth annual O'Neills Camogie All-Stars at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin.

One of the most prestigious international poker events in the world is coming to Ireland for the very first time this January.

GOLF sensation Rory McIlroy and policeman Ronan Kerr were the standout recipients at the annual People of the Year Awards.

Kilkenny defender JJ Delaney has been announced as the GAA/Sunday Game man-of-the-match for today's All-Ireland SHC final.

IRELAND’S Michael O’Reilly and Gary Sweeney are through to today’s finals at the European Youth Championships following wins at the Citywest Convention Centre in Dublin last night.

INITIATIVE, hard work, determination, self-confidence — these are ingredients for Ireland’s recovery.

SURVEILLANCE systems almost 50 times more powerful than traditional CCTV are being trialled around the country.

Gaelic Players' Association CEO Dessie Farrell gave hia assessment of a year in which the players' body gained official recognition from the GAA, when he spoke at tonight's Opel GPA awards at the Citywest Hotel.

Tipperary's Lar Corbett and Bernard Brogan of Dublin have been announced as the 2010 Opel GPA Players of the Year in hurling and football respectively at the Gaelic Players' Association Awards at the Citywest Hotel tonight.

KERRY GAA officials have received the green light from board delegates to press ahead with the purchase of 48 acres of land at Currans, near Currow, to develop a GAA Centre of Excellence in the county.

The Opel-GPA Hurling Team of the Year has been announced ahead of the awards ceremony at the Citywest Hotel on Friday. The selected team includes 14 of the players who received All-Star awards last month.

MILK quotas are gone, and there’s nothing to be gained from living in the past, according to Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) president Pat McLoughlin.

EUROPEAN agriculture ministers have been attending private meetings in recent weeks to devise new market management measures to reduce the impact which price fluctuations in global milk markets have had on farmers’ incomes, according to Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister Brendan Smith.

THE Irish Dairy Board (IDB) will consider marketing collaborations with a number of overseas representative dairy bodies at private meetings scheduled during next month’s global milk conference in New Zealand, says its chief executive Kevin Lane.

All of the players who received GAA All-Star Football awards last Friday night have been shortlisted for OPEL-GPA Football Team of the Year accolades, following the announcement of the nominees today.

Newly-crowned GAA Footballer of the Year Bernard Brogan was delighted to pick up his award at the Citywest Hotel on Friday, but says that the lack of team accolades for Dublin this year will drive them on for 2011.