Shane Daly Butz is determined to use the World University Games as a spring board to kick start his football career.

Shane Cotter, a director at Architectural Farm, talks with Aileen Lee.

On another superb weekend for Irish rowing, Paul and Gary O’Donovan won gold in the men’s lightweight double sculls at World Rowing Cup 111 in Lucerne, Switzerland yesterday while teammate Sanita Puspure took silver in an incredibly tight race in the women’s single sculls.

Exeter’s Champions Cup engagement with Leinster at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday is unlikely to be the time to stop and smell the roses.

Few things are more heartbreaking than hearing of the suicide of a young person, as I did today.

Pope Francis has appointed Fr Alan McGuckian as Bishop of Raphoe, replacing Bishop Philip Boyce.

The body mass index (BMI) of a child’s mother may influence a teacher’s perception of that child’s academic ability.

Paul and Gary O’Donovan remain the two fastest lightweight scullers in the country. 

Update 1pm: The Sports Minister Shane Ross is due to return to Ireland this evening following the arrest of Pat Hickey in Rio yesterday.

Queens University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin will contest this afternoon’s Ryan Cup decider after both teams came through extremely tight semi-final affairs.

As experts warn that sitting is the new smoking, sedentary worker, Michelle Murphy looks at what she can do to reverse the health decline that sitting all day triggers.

I very much welcome the decision of Amnesty International to support the decriminalisation of prostitution.

Racing was competitive at the Irish Rowing Championships in Inniscarra, Co. Cork, yesterday.

Like father, like son: Cleared for take-off and make air-show history.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has defended the appointment of a pro-fracking company to lead a research study into the practice in Ireland.

Ryan Cup Roundup

Queens University Belfast have confirmed they will contest their expulsion from the Sigerson Cup.

Ireland U20 preview: Expectations aren’t confined to Joe Schmidt’s Ireland side this next two months.

Rogue employers who operate modern forms of slavery in the North to increase profits should be tackled, an expert said.

I read with interest Michael Clifford’s article of July 26 (‘A blustery reception for wind turbines as locals voice their opposition’) which reported that a local woman, Marina Reilly from Castletown, Co Meath, was given an assurance by the Taoiseach that health problems would be taken into account in the review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines.

For Cathy Deasy it was a bittersweet day.

Derry, Trinity College, Meath, Wicklow, GMIT, Kildare, Fingal and Down advanced to the Bord na Mona Kehoe Cup quarter-finals, while DCU, Armagh, St Pat's Drumcondra, Mayo, Louth, Roscommon, Longford and Queens University will take part in the Shield competition.

Ireland’s declining native barn owl population could be given a boost by a foreign shrew that has managed to get into the country.

First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness moved today to deny a developing rift over political powersharing in the North.

SAFEFOOD Ireland, recently commissioned a report on The Cost of Overweight and Obesity on the Island of Ireland.

Kildare and Meath will contest the 2013 Bord na Móna Kehoe Cup final following semi-final wins today, while Roscommon advanced to the Shield decider.

GMIT, Derry, DCU, Wicklow, Armagh and Louth got their Bord na Móna Kehoe Cup campaigns off to a winning start this afternoon.

Munster’s Paul O’Connell has warned that an increased emphasis on building muscle mass in professional sport will lead to more serious injuries on the pitch and, in some cases, court prosecutions.

The infrastructure needed by Irish speakers is about to be destroyed.

SCIENTISTS have made a breakthrough in treating a cancer that kills 500 men in Ireland every year.

TEAGASC has made an important step in the battle to protect Irish cereal crops against disease.

A new website is being launched today to help tackle the growing obesity problem in Ireland.

IT may come as a surprise to many parents but Irish teenagers have been found to have a positive attitude to helping out with housework.

THE death occurred yesterday at the age of 74 of Gaelic scholar and academic professor Breandán Ó Buachalla.

A YOUNG Irish woman is in a critical condition in a US hospital after she was subjected to a violent beating with a baseball bat during a robbery in the early hours of Friday.

THE Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board has announced that Chris Gibson is to become chairman of the board from July 1.

MICHAEL McHale may not be a household name yet, but after last night the aspiring journalist is one step closer to becoming as well-known as Miriam O’Callaghan, Ryan Tubridy, and other top professionals across the country.

Donal Hickey takes flight with Ireland’s bats.

The Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup is back on track after the GAA's Higher Education Council tonight fixed the remaining games in the competition.

EXPERTS at Queens University Belfast have dated a skull discovered in a so-called haunted house to the late 1700s.

Aerospace firms from both sides of the border aiming to cut deals at the Paris Airshow this week.

Queens University Belfast are Sigerson Cup champions with their 0 -15 to 0-14 extra-time win against University of Ulster Jordanstown in Belfast.