GAA president-elect Larry McCarthy has revealed he flew approximately 80,000 air miles in the last three months of his successful campaign to become the 40th president of the GAA.

Kerry was my first taste of freedom. My parents left me with my aunty from the age of nine. My son is nine now, but the Irish college is gone, the shop is closed, and the once bustling church looks sad, like a forgotten song.

Will the bargain have been worth it when Faust calls in the loan?, asks Enda McEvoy.

UEFA, which has waved its paw at the Financial Fair Play debate for far too long, has finally found its claws after banning Manchester City from the Champions League — but the ensuing fight is now going to be bloody and extended.

Before Christmas, such theories were little more than that — fantasy football hypotheses to debate in the stands or the pub.

It took Rory McIlroy four and a half years to get back his No. 1 status in the world. It could take only a week to lose it again.

Guardiola says it won't be the end of the world if he fails to win Champions League at Manchester City.

Plans to revitalise Limerick's main thoroughfare took a step forward this week.

David Raleigh Limerick City and County Council is to spend in the region of €1m on a brand for Limerick to strengthen its competitive edge on an international scale.

Bryson DeChambeau insists he welcomes the European Tour’s crackdown on slow play, which includes a significant change to the previously announced four-point plan at this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.

Let’s face it, decades ain’t what they used to be. There was a time was when you knew where you stood with a decade. The sixties? Flower power and beards. The seventies? Sideburns and disco. The eighties? Everything was massive: shoulder pads, mobile phones, hair. You used to be able to tell a decade simply by looking at the trousers involved.

Almost one million Irish passports were issued in 2019 — a record number and a 7% increase on 2018.

On Wednesday, Shane Lowry toasted 2019. His team — including manager Conor Ridge, caddie Brian Martin and coach Neil Manchip — had gathered for Christmas lunch. Before they began, the big man raised a glass.

Former Cork senior hurling manager John Meyler has acknowledged the team declined after their 2018 All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Limerick.

Clare star John Conlon says the panel has been energised by the arrival of new manager Brian Lohan, though he feels the outgoing management team of Gerry O’Connor and Donal Moloney were “disrespected”.

The fallout surrounding proposed lengthy suspensions handed out to 16 championship-winning minor players and seven juvenile club officials has extended to Douglas GAA’s senior club.

Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy and former Cork boss John Meyler are set to lead the PwC All-Star 2019 and 2018 hurling teams when they head out to Abu Dhabi tomorrow.

The Abu Dhabi Championship is set to be the first event of Shane Lowry's 2020 season.

Open champion Shane Lowry insists he will not rest on his laurels as he looks to finish his career-best season on a high at the DP World Championship in Dubai.

Shane Lowry will sit down with the family for Christmas dinner in seven weeks' time and bask in the warm glow of an unforgettable season.

Ireland booked a place in the play-offs of the T20 World Cup qualifiers with a crushing eight-wicket win over Nigeria in Abu Dhabi.

Gareth Delany starred with the bat as Ireland beat Oman by 35 runs in their third Twenty20 World Cup qualifier in Abu Dhabi.

Finland’s Tapio Pulkkanen claimed a slender lead in the opening round of the Italian Open after setting a target which proved too hot to handle.

Open champion Shane Lowry has switched his focus from parental responsibilities to trying to reclaim top spot in the Race to Dubai at the Italian Open.

It’s tough being a Rose - spending hours in high-heels, posing for selfies at every turn, the constant smiling and waving, as the tour trundles towards Tralee.

Pádraig Harrington toasted the double victory of Shane Lowry and Royal Portrush as a brilliant moment for Irish sport as the 148th Open Championship was declared a resounding success.

Shane Lowry woke up yesterday morning still not sure he had what it took to win a major but he finished the biggest day of his professional life with no-one more deserving of victory at the 148th Open Championship.

No man is an island, not even in a non-team sport like golf and while Shane Lowry is not one to use “we” when referring to his achievements in the style of many of his counterparts in golf’s elite, the Irishman is not afraid to give credit where it is due.

“I played okay,” he said of a round that lapsed into over par with a three-putt on the third before swinging back in the opposite direction.

Shane Lowry is so superstitious he’d carry a horseshoe in his bag if his caddie would let him.

We need tangible results sooner than 2030 if we are to avert the worst effects of climate change, says Johan Rockström.

All-Star camogie player Ashling Thompson avoided criminal convictions for assaulting two young women at a nightclub in Cork on her undertaking to pay €6,000 to family refuge charities and to cover witness expenses.

A High Court action over the breeding of falcons has gone to mediation in a bid to resolve the dispute.

GAA All-Star camogie player Ashling Thompson pleaded guilty to assaulting a second woman at a nightclub in Cork.

The two drivers who died in the fatal road smash which claimed three lives in west Limerick on Thursday evening were both retired nurses, it has emerged.

Liverpool and Tottenham fans have been urged not to try to find spare tickets for Saturday night's Champions League final, amid a police clampdown on touts selling fakes.

As well as bidding farewell to some beloved characters, the end of Game of Thrones means we can also say goodbye to the drawing of tenuous links between sport and the goings-on in Westeros.

Two years ago, Gerry Murphy was living in Abu Dhabi when, tuning into RTÉ radio, he heard the unmistakable strains of tunes painstakingly preserved by his grandfather 80 years previously.

An architect and an engineer agreed a scheme to move shares in a firm worth US$8m (€7.1m) as the architect got into financial trouble and later filed for bankruptcy, the High Court heard.

GAA All-Star camogie player Ashling Thompson has admitted that she assaulted another woman at a nightclub by elbowing her in the jaw.

An Australian jury has convicted a man of plotting to blow up an Etihad Airways airliner on a flight from Sydney to the United Arab Emirates with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder.

Thanks in part to a few new weapons in the bag, Shane Lowry moved to the top of the early leaderboard at the RBC Heritage with a bogey-free 65.