Last week was the start of the new race times – there were a good few of them in the UK - and I think, for people who were viewing racing on the whole, it was a better experience.

Military metaphors are commonly used when we talk about cancer but, according to new research, describing the disease as a battlefield is far from helpful and can have a negative effect, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Seventy-three years ago, Jimmy O’Donoghue hurled for Limerick against Kilkenny in Croke Park. One of two remaining survivors from that champion NHL panel, he reflects on this evening’s All-Ireland semi-final between the two counties and on his journey as a hurler and a civil servant which saw him play the game in four counties

Rory McIlroy has little interest in following Jason Day’s example and teaming up with a so-called superstar caddie.

The giant live oak tree outside the Augusta National Golf Club clubhouse has to be the greatest hangout in all of golf.

We have written here before that trainer, Ger Lyons, needs to find a Group 1 horse to carry his progressive career to the next level.

A judge has ruled that terminally ill Alfie Evans may be allowed home, but will not be allowed to go to Rome for further treatment.

Robin Dawson might be the world No 98 and a recent star performer in the Bonallack Trophy but he admits he’d love to add an amateur “major” to his trophy cabinet should he eventually make the move into the professional ranks.

Our 12.5% corporate tax rate is no longer the big clincher it once was as rivals shrink their rates and the US attempts to lure back multinationals with tax incentives, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

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Rory McIlroy has retained his best friend Harry Diamond as his caddie for the 2018 season.

WITHOUT the help of grand-parents siblings and friends, single mothers can find it difficult to raise a child.

A devout Christian thrown off a Sheffield University social work course after being accused of posting "derogatory" comments about lesbians, gay men and bisexuals on a Facebook page is waiting to hear whether he has won a British High Court fight.

PROBABLY no festival will bring as many different musical styles to Cork this year as Sounds From a Safe Harbour, returning this week after a much-lauded debut in 2015.

It has been a year of change for Rory McIlroy, who has switched equipment companies, gotten married, and now split with his longtime caddie JP Fitzgerald.

Palatine (Carlow) 0-8 St Vincent’s (Dublin) 0-16: Palatine co-manager Mick Lillis claimed Diarmuid Connolly is an easy target after the St Vincent’s captain was black-carded in the first half of this Leinster club SFC quarter-final in Carlow yesterday.

Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond, 39, was yesterday back in jail in Wisconsin, accused of violating probation after being freed last month following a conviction over a stabbing.

Although the chat wasn’t all Bayside High based, this was Dustin’s first interview since his release from jail.

Dundalk plays host to today’s horse racing action and Multiviz gets the nap selection to land the opener for trainer Sheila Lavery and jockey Pat Smullen.

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The Rehab Group is seeking an indemnity from its former chief executive, Angela Kerins, in defamation proceedings brought against the charity over denials of developer John Kelly’s claims that he gave Ms Kerins use of a helicopter, a private jet, and hospitality worth €100,000 with a view to securing rights to buy Rehab’s property at Roslyn Park, Dublin 4.

Older men may still long for that one last fling, but they are more interested in love, friendship, and intimacy, writes Margaret Jennings.

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The actor who played Screech in the 1990s TV show Saved by the Bell has pleaded not guilty to charges resulting from a bar fight.

 retired school principal is the sole winner of the $326m (€277m) Mega Millions jackpot drawn on November 4, the biggest prize in New York Lottery history, officials announced.

A US judge has said the actor who played Screech in the 1990s school sitcom Saved By The Bell must stand trial over a Christmas Day stabbing.

A US judge has said the actor who played Screech in the 1990s school sitcom 'Saved By The Bell' must stand trial over a Christmas Day stabbing.

Dustin Diamond, the actor who played Screech in the 1990s TV show Saved By The Bell, has appeared in court in Wisconsin.

Check out our guide to the best TV to watch on this rain-soaked evening.

Fever Pitch, trained by Arthur Moore for JP McManus, won the fifth race of his life when taking the Wilderness Rated Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

Munster coach Anthony Foley paid tribute to the cool head of Ian Keatley after he kicked his side to a last-gasp win over Sale in the opening match of pool A in the European Champions Cup.

Few men epitomise their club as Steve Diamond does Sale Sharks.

The Anthony Foley era at Munster may have got off to a shaky start, but, as Dave Kilcoyne was reminded, the same thing has happened to the very best of them.

Team news for the Second Round of the Capital One Cup.

IT made this month’s cover of TIME magazine but it’s a question that has been lingering since it was first mooted back in the 1940s — is there a male menopause, or manopause?

When Rory McIlroy took a two-shot lead into the weekend at Valhalla he was asked about the keys to his amazing summer.

JARED Diamond, in his 1991 book The Third Chimpanzee, compared chimp biology with our own. Sharing 98.4% of their DNA with humans, chimps are more closely related to us than they are to the other great apes.

It’s a rap – The Beastie Boys have won $1.7m (€1.25m) in a copyright case against the maker of Monster Energy drink.

Barclays’ boss Antony Jenkins today banished the ghost of Bob Diamond as he took an axe to highly-paid staff at the investment banking division built up by his predecessor.

As one of those mentioned in Victoria White’s original article on this issue (‘Prime Time’ and RTÉ are in denial of the truth about climate change, April 3), and in the light of Donogh Diamond’s defence of the programme in question (Existence of climate change never at issue, April 7), I would appreciate an opportunity to comment briefly.

One of the personal assistants accused of defrauding Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi has accused them of lying under oath as she gave evidence in her trial.

A personal assistant accused of defrauding Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi has told a court that she saw evidence of regular drug use by the celebrity cook.

Nigella Lawson was accused of stashing cocaine in a hollow book to hide her escalating habit, as she told a court she would never risk leaving her children as “orphans” by taking drugs.

Nigella Lawson told a court today she would rather be "honest and ashamed" than "bullied with lies" after revealing details of her past drug use.

Nigella Lawson has admitted in court to using cocaine, saying in one case it was because of “intimate terrorism” she suffered at the hands of her ex-husband Charles Saatchi.

Nigella Lawson has told a court that she had taken cocaine in the past but said the idea that she is a “drug addict or habitual user of cocaine is absolutely ridiculous”.

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Johnny Murtagh plans to give Royal Diamond a workout over the weekend before making a final decision as to whether he makes the trip to Australia for the Emirates Melbourne Cup.