New Rowing Ireland High Performance Director, Antonio Maurogiovanni believes his international experience from seven Olympic Games can help develop the sport across the country.

A teenage student has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of a 13-year-old boy who died following a playground incident at school.

Christy Toye is expected to make his first competitive outing of 2016 tomorrow when Donegal welcome Mayo to Ballybofey.

Mike O’Shea, adventurer and owner of Work at Height, which looked after the logistics of getting cast, crew and equipment onto Skellig Michael, said: “We knew what they wanted us to know even though we were heavily involved but it’s a very secretive industry.

From glamorous and grown-up to feisty and fun, there’s an autumn fragrance for everyone, says Katie Wright.

Punctual never looked so pretty.

Two straight wins has earned St Michael’s a Cork Premier IFC quarter-final meeting with Kinsale or Clyda Rovers.

Captain Dan Leavy was the try-scoring driving force behind St Michael’s second ever Leinster Schools Senior Cup, denying Clongowes a first three in a row in an enthralling final at the RDS yesterday.

Roscrea must feel aggrieved by the 17 minutes of injury-time played before St Michael’s fly-half Ross Byrne landed an equalising penalty to send this Leinster Schools Senior Cup first round tie to a replay at Maynooth yesterday.

JOHN JOE JOYCE impressed on his move into the welterweight division when he outpointed Golden Gloves champion, Quintin Fortune of the NYPD, at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork on Saturday night, where a Garda/Rylane Boxing Club selection hosted team from the New York Police Department at a sell-out dinner show.

The focus of the latest Cork-Kerry clash will undoubtedly be on David Moran and Tommy Walsh, the senior stars who already have U21 All-Ireland medals in their collection.

IT is almost 10 years since Michael Owen announced himself as a major player on football’s international stage with a wonderful World Cup goal against Argentina in St Etienne.

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A controversial nursing home where a man with Down’s Syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease was transferred shortly before he died was clearly not capable of caring for him, a report revealed today.

A teenager who kicked a garda in the mouth breaking his teeth is to carry out 240 hours of work in the community in lieu of two years in prison.