Alain Newstead has good reason to celebrate the passage of a new law to ensure access to public services through Irish Sign Language for him and more than 5,000 other deaf people.

Hands in Harmony, a Limerick based deaf community choir are determined to break the stigma against the abilities of deaf people through an untraditional way of celebrating music. 

Former Wexford captain turned sports coach Ciaran Deely is to return from the Indian Super League (ISL), where he rubbed shoulders with Roberto Carlos and Marco Materazzi, to take over as London football manager.

"Poor Sepp Blatter," wrote John Cleese on Twitter last Friday. "Just a couple of hundred rotten apples, and he has to carry the can".

The tragic story of the shooting of Eamon McDevitt by the British army in 1971, and its impact on the deaf community, is being told through sign language, writes Caomhán Keane

Former Real Madrid and Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka has announced he has joined Mumbai City in the Indian Super League.

RTÉ broadcaster Brenda Donohue today presented the 2014 Hidden Hearing Heroes Awards honouring those who made a significant, and often unheralded, contribution to society.

Joao Havelange, the Brazilian who ruled Fifa for more than two decades, has resigned as honorary president of the world governing body after being named as having received bribes.

Joao Havelange, the Brazilian who ruled FIFA for more than two decades, has resigned as honorary president after being named as having received bribes, it has emerged today.

Acclaimed play Follow shares the theatrical elements of sign language with a wider audience, writes Pádraic Killeen

Mohamed Bin Hammam has returned to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to challenge his latest provisional suspension by FIFA.

FIFA's new ethics investigator has not ruled out looking at the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids as part of his probe into corruption allegations.

FIFA's leaders, including current president Sepp Blatter, knew that senior officials had been paid millions of pounds in bribes by the organisation's former marketing company ISL, a court document published yesterday has revealed.

Fifa chiefs had knowledge that senior officials including former president Joao Havelange had been paid bribes by the organisation’s former marketing company ISL, a court document published yesterday revealed.

Former FIFA president Joao Havelange is seriously ill in a Rio de Janeiro hospital after suffering heart problems while recovering from an ankle infection.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes members of the organisation’s executive committee may find their positions untenable if they are found to have received payments from a now-defunct marketing company in the 1990s.

FIFA’s clean-up drive could see three senior football officials named as having received kickbacks from a company that sold World Cup TV rights.

FIFA’s clean-up drive could see three senior football officials named as having received kickbacks from a company that sold World Cup TV rights.

Sepp Blatter will today unveil his plans for FIFA reforms – with UEFA president Michel Platini urging him to keep his promises to implement change.

FIFA aim to take the first steps towards “restoring its reputation throughout the world” today when their executive committee meet to discuss reforms to the governing body.

Michel Platini has called a summit meeting of the eight European FIFA members immediately before tomorrow’s executive committee in a bid to ensure that significant reforms of the world governing body are pushed through.

FIFA is blocking the release of a document that would reveal the identity of two officials who have been forced to repay bribes, according to a BBC investigation.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has promised to address the latest allegations of bribery within the organisation.

FIFA vice-president Issa Hayatou yesterday proclaimed his innocence and threatened legal action against BBC Panorama over their claim he accepted a £10,000 (€12,000) bribe — insisting the money was given to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) towards their 40th anniversary celebrations.

FIFA vice-president Issa Hayatou today threatened legal action against BBC 'Panorama' over their claim he accepted a €11,900 bribe – insisting the money was given to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) towards their 40th anniversary celebrations.

FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has brushed aside last night’s controversial BBC Panorama programme insisting he has no interest in the claims made.

UEFA president Michel Platini has insisted the BBC Panorama programme screened last night should not affect England’s 2018 World Cup bid.

THREE senior FIFA officials who will vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids allegedly took bribes in the 1990s, according to the BBC’s Panorama.

BOHEMIANS have been drawn against Welsh side TNS (now The New Saints, formerly Total Network Solutions) in the Champions League second round qualifying round.

A High Court action brought on behalf of a deaf brother and sister over the provision of Irish sign language as part of their education has been settled.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has warned that “football is ill” — and claimed brawling Arsenal and Chelsea players tarnished the image of the game.

THE pressure is mounting on FIFA after the organisation became embroiled in a scandal involving a senior figure for the third time this year.

The pressure is mounting on FIFA after the organisation became embroiled in a scandal involving a senior figure for the third time this year.

FIFA are facing allegations of impropriety involving a senior figure for the third time this year after South American federation president Nicolas Leoz was alleged to have received inducements relating to television rights.

Europe’s elite clubs, including Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool, today vowed to boycott the World Club Championship next year despite an effort by FIFA to slim down the competition.

Chelsea have appointed sports marketing expert Paul Smith to stand in for Peter Kenyon until the former Manchester United chief executive can take over at Stamford Bridge.

FIFA stands at a crossroads today after the highest-ranking ‘civil servant’ in world football’s governing body claimed he had uncovered evidence of criminal corruption within the organisation.

UEFA president Lenart Johansson has warned Europe’s footballing nations they could face a bleak future if his FIFA counterpart Sepp Blatter is re-elected.

The World Club Championship is to be revived by FIFA for 2005, it was announced today.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter posted notice today that he will fight to the bitter end to maintain his place as the most powerful man in world football.

Opponents of FIFA president Sepp Blatter scored a potentially significant victory, last night, when they won their fight to set up a special internal committee to investigate the finances of football’s world governing body.