The Irish player of the year had missed the matches against Slovakia and the Netherlands in April with a broken collarbone.

Player of the Year Harriet Scott has been ruled out of the two matches due to a collarbone injury whilst striker Stephanie Roche continues her spell on the sidelines with a long-term injury.

Megan Campbell has enjoyed some major football occasions during her blossoming career but the Ireland women’s international will forever savour her role in Manchester City’s FA Cup win last month.

A Florida student accused of randomly killing a couple in their garage and chewing on the dead man’s face told television psychologist Phil McGraw he was fleeing a demon-like figure named Daniel and only had a vague recollection of the incident.

Colin Bell doesn’t quite go so far as to declare that the girls in green need to turn it up to 11 but, as a fan of Jurgen Klopp’s brand of ‘heavy metal football’, the new manager of the Irish women’s team certainly places a high value on intensity.

Friends of the teenager arrested over the murder of a US tourist in the Russell Square stabbing attack have spoken of their shock.

Ireland 0 Finland 2: Ireland’s women suffered an early Euro setback last night against Finland at Tallaght Stadium.

The Republic of Ireland Women’s National Team were beaten 3-0 by World No.2 USA in a friendly international at the Avaya Stadium in San Jose yesterday.

Unlike her rivals for the Fifa Puskás Award, James Rodriguez and Robin van Persie, Ireland’s Stephanie Roche will be taking the rocky road to Zurich for the prize-giving ceremony on Monday week.

The gunman who shot three people at Florida State University’s library before being killed by police was a lawyer who graduated from the college, a law enforcement official said.

A suspected gunman was killed by police after a shooting at a US university that wounded three people today.

Slovakia 0 Republic of Ireland 1

On Saturday night in New York, the best player in College Football will be handed the coveted Heisman Trophy.

Clare are not the first sporting organisation to recognise the benefit of having an experienced hand on the tiller.

YOUR intentions for today were good – a grand plan to be at the desk at 8.30am because of a looming deadline.

REGARDLESS of the outcome of today’s 1,500m final at the World Championships in Daegu, Ciarán Ó Lionaird’s coach is convinced the 23 year-old Cork man has huge medal potential.

Hurricane Irene has smashed into the North Carolina coast, forecasters said.

CIARÁN Ó LIONAIRD has been like a breath of fresh air since he arrived at Ireland’s training camp in Daegu to put the finishing touches to his preparations for the World Championships, which get under way today.

HURRICANE Irene caused extraordinary disruption Friday as it zeroed in for a catastrophic run up the Eastern Seaboard. More than two million people were ordered to move to safer places, and New York announced plans to shut down its entire network of subways for the first time because of a natural disaster.

THE men’s 800m could provide the highlight of this weekend’s IUAA (Inter-Varsities) championships hosted by Queen’s University Belfast where Darren McBrearty (DCU) renews rivalry with Niall Tuohy (UL).

SOMETIMES you wake up with a bright idea and just go with it.

AN apple a day really might help to keep the doctor away, according to new research highlighting the fruit’s “incredible” health benefits.

HIS sensational victory in last Saturday’s South Regional Cross-Country Championships in Hoover, Alabama will send Corkman Ciarán Ó Lionáird into Monday’s NCAAs among the medal favourites.

CIARÁN O LIONÁIRD feels that the Irish under-23s are ready to compete for the team gold medals at next month’s European Cross-Country Championships in Albufeira.

An American could face being caned in Singapore after he overstayed his visa.

An operation to pump mud into the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is stopping crude from gushing in the sea, but has not yet “killed” the blown-out well responsible for the worst spill in US history, BP said today.

BP’s chief executive Tony Hayward was today on his way to Louisiana as the worst US oil spill in decades continued to spread into precious shoreline habitat along the Gulf Coast.

The worst US oil spill in decades spread into precious shoreline habitat along the Gulf Coast today as documents emerged showing British Petroleum downplayed the possibility of a catastrophic accident at the offshore rig that exploded.

SCIENTISTS have found the clearest evidence yet that warming oceans are whipping up more powerful cyclone storms, such as Hurricane Gustav.

IN A confrontation captured on video, a hospital security guard fired a stun gun to stop a defiant father from taking home his newborn, sending both man and child crashing to the floor.

A “NUCLEAR reactor” one mile beneath the Atlantic ocean helps to maintain Ireland’s mild climate, scientists have discovered.

FURTHER evidence has emerged that the Indonesian “Hobbit” whose remains were found in 2003 was a previously unknown species of human.

THE first pictures showing a live specimen of a rodent species once thought to have been extinct for 11 million years have been taken by a retired Florida State University professor and a Thai wildlife biologist.

The first pictures showing a live specimen of a rodent species once thought to have been extinct for 11 million years have been taken by a retired Florida State University professor and a Thai wildlife biologist.

The USS Oriskany sank to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico today after the Navy set off explosions on the retired aircraft carrier to make the world’s largest intentionally created reef.

HAVING children makes you miserable and depressed, according to a new American study.

A rare public relations film rock legend Jim Morrison made in the early 1960s has been unearthed by students at Florida State University.

Television tough guy Robert Urich, best known for his starring role in sleuth series Spencer: For Hire, has died of cancer. He was 55.

Tornadoes and rain from Tropical Storm Allison have lashed north Florida, causing at least four deaths.

Missions into uncharted territory are nothing new to Gulf War veteran Mike Middleton.