Dr Crokes (Kerry) 1-12 Loughmore-Castleiney (Tipperary) 0-9: No energy, no urgency, no composure, poor decision-making, sloppy with ball in hand and wasteful in front of goal.

In conjunction with the Olympics, Nissan has unveiled the working prototype of its futuristic BladeGlider vehicle, combining zero emissions with high-performance.

Jose Mourinho should be sent to prison over his treatment of Bastian Schweinsteiger, according to a member of world players' union FifPro.

Shane O’Donnell is expected to be out of action for a month after sustaining a foot injury. It is believed he picked up the setback in last Sunday’s Division 1B win over Limerick in Ennis.

It may have come four years late but Cork’s world champion race walker Rob Heffernan is now finally an Olympic medallist.

Clare fear Pat Donnellan may have suffered a season-ending cruciate tear following a challenge game last weekend.

Betrayal. It’s the one word that leaps out from the pages of Jim McGuinness’ book Until Victory Always — A Memoir.

Jason Day finally bridged the gap to major championship victory on Sunday night as he held Jordan Spieth at bay to complete a three-stroke PGA Championship win.

The Queen Anne Stakes is an intriguing race with which to start Royal Ascot, and the Richard Hannon-trained Night Of Thunder looks to represent tremendous each-way value.

Kilmeen Drama Group has been blazing a trail in Irish amateur theatre since the 1940s, writes Colette Sheridan

A video purported to be by Somalia’s al Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping centres in the US, Canada, Britain and other Western countries.

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A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to charges of trafficking heroin and possessing an illegal handgun in connection with the April 2013 bombings.

The Irish exchange is back in the big time, with the US also booming again, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

A university student beauty queen was mourned yesterday in the provincial Venezuelan city where she was killed this week during a political protest.

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Ireland’s economy is set to grow this year by more than the Government has forecast with the country expected to build on the momentum seen as it exited an EU/IMF bailout, a Reuters survey of economists showed yesterday.

In the end it was no more than a rehearsal but that didn’t stop some reviewing the black card’s debut like it was its opening weekend.

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Eight members of Clare's 2013 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship title-winning team have won places on the 2013 GAA/GPA All-Stars Hurling team, it has been confirmed.

Clare defender David McInerney was honoured as the 2013 Bord Gáis Energy Under-21 Hurler of the Year at the inaugural Team of the Year Awards ceremony last night in Croke Park.

Wexford manager Liam Dunne feels hurling would be "shooting itself in the foot" if it accepts the new proposal to restructure the Allianz League for 2014.

Aer Lingus is reporting a growth in revenues and passenger numbers for the first half of the year - but operating profits are down on last year.

A short clip to warm the heart on a chilly April morning.

Pope Francis is the first ever from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernised Argentina’s conservative Catholic church.

Darren Clarke didn’t drop a shot despite describing as “brutal” this week’s Tshwane Open course — one of the longest on the 2013 Race to Dubai schedule.

A glimpse into the “light of other days” in a famed West Cork lifeboat village will kickstart summer festivities in Courtmacsherry.

Ireland is welcoming more and more tourists from around the globe – except Britain, latest figures reveal.

The Waterford hurlers face into the new season without their two first choice midfielders from last summer's Championship, Stephen Molumphy and Philip Mahony.

Hundreds of family carers are heading to the Dáil this afternoon to voice their outrage at Budget 2013.

Mumford & Sons are working on brand new songs.

Minister Michael Noonan is on his feet and has started delivering his speech for Budget 2013.

Members of the Dáil and the Seanad will be getting into the Christmas spirit tonight, with the turning on of the Oireachtas Christmas lights - on the eve of Budget 2013.

The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has published a 12-month progress report on the 2011 Global Irish Economic Forum.

The route for the 2013 Tour de France was announced yesterday and it will not lend itself to Bradley Wiggins staking a claim for consecutive wins.

Dairy farmers are more likely than those in beef, pork, and tillage to answer Ireland’s call for agri-food expansion, Cork-based agri-business consultant Michael Brady has said.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny will continue his visit to America today, where he is attending a number of engagements aimed at encouraging business and investment into Ireland.

The Taoiseach has travelled to the United States to remind investors that Ireland is open for business.

Members of the global Irish diaspora are being urged to play a role in Ireland's economic recovery and resurgence.

No European nation is strong enough to ride out the continent’s debt crisis alone, Italy’s new premier insisted, urging fellow European Union members to develop a common growth policy.

IRELAND will be the first eurozone member to pay back its debt and “wave goodbye to the IMF”, according to the Taoiseach as he hailed a “new age” of confidence in the country.

Yes, says Michael Moynihan