Thankfully, the Limerick-native avoided any long-term damage to his lung.

If the football career of Ireland U21 newcomer Thomas O’Connor’s doesn’t work out, there’s a fair chance he’ll end up hurling at Nowlan Park.

Seiji Hirao played in three World Cups and saw a fourth as Japan's head coach. He was also a superstar in his home country.

Under-investment in third-level education is beginning to bite, universities have warned, as Ireland’s top institute tumbled 44 places in the global rankings.

If those sound-the-charge Leavers who, after the 2016 vote, assured their peers that they held all the cards in looming negotiations with the EU have come to regret that exuberance, it would be understandable.

In a tumultuous week in UK politics, in which the government lost control of its Brexit agenda, we profile Boris Johnson.

A direct book answers everything your teenage son ever wanted to know about sex but probably wouldn’t ask, writes Suzanne Harrington

Until 2019, I’d never seen Liverpool win a European tie after losing the first leg 3-0. That it was against Barcelona, and the world’s greatest ever player, only embellishes the miracle.

Greta’s urgency is about the survival of our species and is informed by hard scientific research carried out on behalf of the common good. Boris’s urgency is driven by ego and the egg on his and his party’s face, writes Joyce Fegan.

It was a humid Sunday in June, a quiet afternoon that Pete Buttigieg knew would not remain quiet.

The draw was made after completion of 33 first-round fixtures last night and includes all the top-flight clubs who are not involved in European competitions.

Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy has said teenager Troy Parrott is a "shoo-in" for a call up to the senior squad if he remains involved with the Tottenham first-team at the start of the season.

Mick McCarthy will favour a ‘play to play’ policy when it comes to choosing his team for the resumption of the European Championship campaign in September when Switzerland come to town..

They did it. Despite knowing all that they know about him, they still voted for him.

Paul Muldoon has gathered a motley crew of writers and musicians for a tour of Ireland, writes Alan O’Riordan.

It will be 40 years next month since the death of JG Farrell.

In the US, they worship cash; in the UK, it’s class, writes Suzanne Harrington

Manchester United fans were involved in more football-related arrests where racism was an aggravating factor or a feature than any other club in England in the four seasons up to 2017-18, data from the UK Home Office shows.

Callum O’Dowda has now gone beyond the point in his career, for both club and country, where he is viewed as a bright prospect.

Ruby Wax is back on the road – and her live show sees her share the stage with a monk and a neuroscientist. Intrigued? So was Pat Fitzpatrick...

Data Centre and Air Cooling Systems manufacturer, EDPAC International, has announced the creation of 50 new jobs in Cork.

Who will fact check for you before and after referenda and elections? Who will tell you that 6,000 people need repeat smear tests? Mark Zuckerberg?, writes Joyce Fegan.

Holders Chelsea are safely through to the fourth round of the FA Cup but Premier League Cardiff were victims of a giant-killing act by Gillingham.

A revolution in delivering the next generation of high-speed electronic devices is to be led by the return to University College Cork of one of the world’s leading quantum mechanics scientists.

Patrick Hoban hopes that by firing Dundalk FC to the title he can also land himself a place in the Republic of Ireland senior panel.

Let’s hold the horses for a second, turn our backs on the prospect of Limerick’s place in the All-Ireland final, and

Roger Bannister, the first person to run a sub four-minute mile, died at the weekend. He was 88.

Doncaster prop forward Ian Williams has died after he collapsed at training, the Greene King IPA Championship club have announced.

Here's a full list of the ins and outs of the January transfer window.

The word itself is nearly 50 years old.

An Oxford graduate's failure to get a top degree cost him the chance of a lucrative legal career, the High Court has heard.

Investment in universities is crucial to take advantage of opportunities arising from Brexit, an expert has said as Irish colleges maintain a steady position in the latest world rankings.

The dimensions of Beijing and its minimalist architecture are alienating, and murals of China’s founding father, Mao Zedong, at odds with Prada stores, says Margaret Hickey.           

A US professor suspected of stabbing a 26-year-old Chicago man to death is due in a California courtroom on Monday.

Britain's leading universities want the Government to urgently clarify the post-Brexit rights of EU nationals immediately to allow the sector to plan "with confidence".

Driving at night, you may glimpse a badger dazzled by the car headlights. Otherwise, this creature of the night is seldom seen, writes Richard Collins. 

AROUND the year 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, and the world has never been the same since. Gutenberg knew, instinctively at least, that paper never refuses ink, and began printing indulgences even before he printed the Bible, the first book ever printed.

Google has spent millions funding academic research which is favourable to the technology giant, a public interest watchdog has claimed.

A former Oxford don has reportedly been trampled to death by a herd of cows in a field near a village church in England.

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Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has pursued control by varied and ruthless means — breaching EU law and his citizens’ rights. EU states have to do more than finger wag, writes Guy Verhofstadt

Donncha Ó Dúlaing, widely known for his hugely popular radio shows Three-O-One, Highways and Byways and Fáilte Isteach, remembers his time in the accounts department at Henry Ford & Son.

Turning your back on tucking into other creatures is not simply the morally correct choice, it could also go a long way to saving the world says Suzanne Harrington

Irish rower Claire Lambe thought she knew all there was to know about hype and hysteria after competing in an Olympic final last September.