A massive €677,000 has been donated to Covid-19 GoFundMe causes in the last week.

People who are engaging in bulk purchasing or panic buying are “wasting their money” and causing unnecessary problems, Business Minister Heather Humphreys has said.

St Brendan’s College got some compensation for their senior side’s loss in the Corn Uí Mhuirí decider last Saturday by defeating Tralee CBS in Wednesday’s Frewen Cup final at Austin Stack Park.

John Fogarty previews the weekend's GAA fixtures.

State papers revealed justice minister and Limerick TD Gerry Collins had become aware in November 1980 that the well-known manor and estate in Adare, Co Limerick, was due to be sold.

An umpire at the heart of the call not to award Limerick a last-gasp 65 in this year’s All-Ireland semi-final has been given a pair of glasses as a Christmas gift by a Limerick fan.

Kerry and Dublin isn’t just a heavyweight duel on the pitch. It’s a muscular collision off it between two global mega-corporations partnering two GAA superpowers, albeit via wholly different business strategies.

Gary O'Donovan has earned a place in the quarter-finals at the World Rowing Championships.

Meyler led the Rebels to successive Munster titles in 2017 and 2018, but the defeat to Limerick in last year's All-Ireland semi-final left a lingering aftertaste in the county as Cork coughed up a late six-point lead.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, all you will need to wake up will be yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final, in whatever format you fancy.

There’s no value in told-you-so’s and there’s no satisfaction in them either but what happened yesterday was in the offing.

Laois selector Niall Corcoran insists that Dublin’s conquerors will have no problem returning to terra firma after yesterday’s shock win as they look to regroup for next weekend’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Tipperary.

Cork’s two-time All-Ireland midfielder Tom Kenny has joined John Meyler’s management team ahead of their All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final the weekend after next.

The growing anti-vaccination movement for measles is a serious threat to public health, a leading medic is warning.

Up to 900 leading wind energy scientists and engineers from 38 countries are to visit Cork this week for the four-day Wind Energy Science Conference, which began on Monday.

Expressions of ‘deep sorrow and regret’ are unlikely to be enough to save embattled Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, write James Pomfret and Greg Torode.

In the wake of his Canadian Open victory on Sunday, Rory McIlroy was asked if he intended returning to the country next year to defend his crown.

A feature of grandly-titled conferences in the corporate and political worlds — Tomorrow’s Game-changing Solutions for Plasterboard, Democracy, and its New Frontiers — is that they do not always supply in the real world what they promise, certainly not for plasterboard or democracy.

French president Emmanuel Macron has set a target of five years for the ruined Notre Dame Cathedral to be rebuilt.

Cork and Munster champions Mourneabbey have marched into a fourth All-Ireland Senior Ladies Club Football Final in five seasons. Meanwhile, substitute Roisin McGovern proved the match-winner for Foxrock-Cabinteely in the day's second semi-final.

TOP-CLASS rower Sanita Pušpure may have returned from the world championships in Bulgaria with a gold medal for Ireland last month, but she’s not about to rest on her oars.

Mickey Harte insists there are no scars left to pick from last year's All-Ireland semi-final when a Tyrone side carrying momentum and a degree of expectation was dissected and dispatched with a frightening efficiency by Dublin in Croke Park.

We’re used to seeing Harry Redknapp inside a car, usually rolling down the window as someone from Sky Sports approaches with microphone in hand to find out about his latest bit of wheeling and dealing on transfer deadline day.

Shortly after my wife and I took up a pair of seats about four rows from the back of the covered stand in Cusack Park last Sunday, I could hear a young fella behind me asking his father: Is that Tony Browne?

Just when it seemed hurling was entering a post-Kilkenny-Tipp era, the first national final of the year is… Kilkenny-Tipp. It’s something to relish, writes Kieran Shannon.

The first meeting between Charles Haughey and British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, after Haughey was appointed Taoiseach for a second time, in 1987, was described as “friendly”.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings in the Syrian capital that killed 17 civilians and policemen.

Two second-half goals from Jack Canning delivered Galway an 11th All-Ireland minor title.

And so, yet again, we return to Ger Loughnane and the 1997 Munster final, borne back ceaselessly into the past like those boats of Fitzgerald’s.

Heather Cooney can barely believe so much time has passed since Galway won the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Championship in 2013.