Authorities in New Zealand have called off the search for two bodies they believe were washed out to sea after the White Island eruption.

Mass tourism has become so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine any event anywhere that might escape the attention of holidaymakers.

A Co Wexford woman is among the survivors of a volcano eruption in New Zealand that claimed the lives of six people.

A volcano off the New Zealand coast has erupted with a towering blast of ash and scalding steam as dozens of tourists were exploring the moon-like surface, killing five people and leaving eight missing feared dead, authorities said.

So no fairytale debut goal for the Troy wonder but young Parrott did get to register an assist as Sean Maguire finally opened his international account with a memorable strike.

Mick McCarthy will turn back the clock on Thursday evening when he hands teenage striker Troy Parrott a senior debut for the Republic of Ireland against New Zealand.

Oh Lordy. Where do we start? Do we actually have to start? Can we somehow sneak out of it?

It’s been hailed as the best All Blacks performance since the last World Cup. Some are saying it was as close to perfection as you can come in the game of rugby. What everyone agrees on is the fact that New Zealand made one hell of a statement on Saturday night.

As ever, it fell to Steve Hansen to neatly encapsulate the situation. The All Blacks head coach is the master of all he surveys and that includes the press conference room, whether in victory or defeat.

It’s unlikely to bring any comfort to Ireland that they brought the full wrath of the All Blacks upon themselves in Tokyo.

It didn’t go unnoticed that the vast majority of Irish players put forward in the mixed zone after Saturday’s abysmal display against New Zealand were younger men and/or replacements. It was a thankless task after everything the team had been through.

Peter Jackson gets over the gain line, behind the headline.

What is it about Ireland and World Cups? Right now it feels like a marriage made in hell.

All Blacks young guns Jack Goodhue and Anton Lienert-Brown have been backed to provide the firepower to shoots down Ireland in their World Cup quarter-final showdown.

New Zealand bounced back from their record Test defeat to thrash Australia 36-0 in Auckland.

New Zealand officials have admitted making a mistake by allowing the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques to send a handwritten letter from his prison cell.

New Zealand centre Sonny Bill Williams has hit out at media claims that he is "under pressure" to make the All-Blacks squad for the Rugby World Cup.

New Zealand remain hopeful that Brodie Retallick will be available for Rugby World Cup selection after the lock dislocated his shoulder during the Rugby Championship clash against South Africa on Saturday.

The All Blacks may have suffered a major blow to their chances of retaining the Rugby World Cup after influential lock Brodie Retallick left today's 16-all draw with South Africa with an injury.

South Africa produced late drama to hold New Zealand to a 16-16 draw in their Rugby Championship clash at Wellington.

New Zealand has launched an investigation into the incoming governor of the Central Bank of Ireland.

New Zealand's major media organisations have pledged not to promote white supremacist ideology when covering the trial of the man charged with killing 50 people at two mosques.

The threat of EU trade agreements harming Ireland’s main farming sectors has doubled, with negotiations with New Zealand moving forward rapidly.

New Zealand's parliament has passed sweeping gun laws that outlaw military-style weapons less than a month after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch left 50 people dead and dozens wounded.

An Australian senator has been censured by his colleagues for seeking to blame the victims of last month's mosque shootings and vilify Muslims.

For 23 years the name Crusaders was a source of nothing but pride in Christchurch, the uncontroversial identity of a franchise that claims, with some justification, to be the most successful non-national professional rugby team in the world.

There was a row of one, two, three, four coffins laid out on the grass in front of him.

The sports editor has an interesting habit of framing questions to me in the context of ‘marks out of 10’. So, when he texted me to ask ‘accuracy marks out of 10 for that L’Equipe story’, I gave it a three.

The “poisonous rhetoric” of the extreme right has successfully crept into the mainstream and bolstered the beliefs of people like Christchurch terrorist Brenton Harrison Tarrant, an Irish expert has said.

A new student group is organising an event at Dublin’s Spire this Saturday to highlight Islamophobia and far-right extremism in the wake of the recent terror attacks in New Zealand.

Ronan O’Gara has been linked with a role in the French coaching setup for the World Cup.