Declan McBennett, RTE’s head of sport, spoke earlier this week about the national station’s coverage of last year’s Women World Cup and his sense that the tournament had proven to be a Rubicon moment for female sport around the globe.

The Department of Justice said even if an alternative system to the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) is agreed, the new extradition process would be “more cumbersome”.

Kenny will be in charge when the competition gets underway in September.

Ireland has been ranked in the top five best countries in the world for children to grow up in.

Mick McCarthy accepts that to reach the Euro 2020 Finals, Ireland will now have to do it the hard way, after this morning's play-off draw put two away games in their path.

Spain needed an injury-time goal from Rodrigo to book their place at Euro 2020 with two matches to spare.

Norway unexpectedly took almost $400m (€360m) from its sovereign wealth fund in August, marking the first such withdrawal in over a year as western Europe’s biggest petroleum producer takes advantage of its enormous piggy bank amid a decline in oil prices.

Ireland has will have a “mammoth task” to secure a seat on the UN Security Council but at the moment “we’re winning”, claims Tánaiste Simon Coveney.

As far as Mick McCarthy is concerned, the good news is that Georgia held Denmark 0-0. And the bad news is that Georgia held Denmark 0-0.

Denmark are second, three points behind the Republic of Ireland in Group D, after Christian Eriksen converted two penalties in a 6-0 rout of Gibraltar.

Vera Pauw has set her sights on the Euro 2021 finals after she was unveiled as the new Ireland women’s team manager.

Salmon farming is a multi-billion industry and the sector has assumed the commercial and political clout that success makes possible.

Norway’s €900bn sovereign wealth fund has proposed overhauling how its holdings are placed across the globe, calling for a shift away from Europe.

Ceta contains many benefits for the EU and Canada, but balanceof positives and negatives would be very different for UK, writes Andrew Hammond.

Joe Hodge proved the coolest man in scorching Yerevan by striking a sweet equaliser in Ireland’s Euro U19 finals opener against Norway last night.

After waiting eight years for Ireland to reach the U19 Euros, captain Lee O’Connor wants a swift start today against Norway in Yerevan (3.45pm, RTÉ Two).

A no-deal Brexit could see the entire island of Ireland treated as one economic zone for food and agriculture trade, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has signalled.

Ovens native Tyreik Wright is ready for the heat — and the heat of battle — in Yerevan, as Ireland’s U19s begin the final countdown for the European Championship Finals in Armenia, with Tom Mohan’s side set to play their first group game, against Norway, on Monday.

The start of any European Commission brings with it a sense of hope, a sense of new beginnings and new possibilities and a feeling curiosity in the face of the unknown personalities taking up the lead roles for the 27 countries of Europe.

England full-back Lucy Bronze has defended her team’s penalty taking after they once again had a spot-kick saved, this time in their Women’s World Cup semi-final loss to the United States.

Phil Neville's England have won their Women's World Cup quarter-final against Norway to set up a semi-final against either the hosts France or the current world champions USA.

We need tangible results sooner than 2030 if we are to avert the worst effects of climate change, says Johan Rockström.

Cork City will face opposition from Luxembourg or Wales in their Europa League first qualifying round.

Wednesday evening had been intended as Cinema Evening, a new picture house having opened around the corner and being in need of investigation and appraisal. Given my enduring weakness for high-school movies there was only going to be one winner: Booksmart, in which two clever students realise on the eve of graduation that they should have worked less and played more, upon which they hit the town and attempt to cram four years of lost fun into one night.

It’s Sunday morning and English actress Emma Thompson has just been on the radio with Miriam O’Callaghan. She noted that things are better for women in society and we need to be appreciative of the change that has and is happening. At the same time, she remarked that we have to keep pushing, especially when opportunities arise to do so.

Ireland’s latest trip to Copenhagen marked your correspondent’s fifth visit to the engaging Danish capital which, a couple of thunderstorms aside, presented a much sunnier, summery face than I experienced on my first trip there.

Extracted from Cork roots, Matt Everitt is a determined sort and so views tonight’s meeting with Czech Republic as an opportune time to right a wrong from Friday’s Euro U17s finals injustice.

Lyon striker Ada Hegerberg is not part of Norway's squad for the Women's World Cup in France this summer.

Western Europe’s biggest oil producer is, seemingly, falling out of love with oil.

Brexit is a crisis but not because politicians can’t come to a compromise. Clive Crook says the real problem is that no workable compromise exists

Update 10.45pm: Michel Barnier has warned the UK that if they don't support Theresa May's deal in the next few days their options going forward will be limited.

Britain voted to leave the European Union in June 2016.

MPs have approved a cross-party Brexit amendment which allows Parliament to seize control of the Commons agenda to hold a series of indicative votes by 329 votes to 302, majority 27.

Spain captain Sergio Ramos scored for the fifth international in succession as his side made a winning start to Euro 2020 qualification against Norway.

Sergio Ramos scored the winner from the penalty spot as Spain recorded a 2-1 victory over Norway in Valencia to begin their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign.

Jon Walters has announced his retirement this afternoon.

Over the past weekend, it was interesting to observe the contrast between one nation engaged in a progressive and positive interaction with the international community and another travelling in the opposite direction, writes Joe Gill.

Manager Colin Bell says that every game will be “like a cup final” for the senior Irish women’s team as they bid to make it to their first ever major tournament, the 2021 European Championship finals in England.

Ireland has dropped from first to third place on an annual, overfishing “shame” list compiled by a British non-governmental organisation.

The FAI have arranged two international friendlies for the Republic of Ireland in the Aviva Stadium this year.

Age Hareide believes that Ireland’s decline since the high of the Euro 2016 finals is a lesson which should not be lost on his in-form Danish team.