The American Football College teams contesting this weekend's Croke Park Classic have been training at their team bases ahead of their meeting at GAA HQ this weekend.

The Sunday Game will be on air from Limerick from 4.40pm for the Kerry v Mayo replay on Saturday.

IT was thought, until recently, that virtually all of the world’s large animals had been discovered.

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It celebrates America’s heritage, but some traditions are less than appetising, says Dave Kenny

Next August’s College Football Croke Park Classic will bring Bandon’s Sean Galvin home. John Riordan spoke to the University of Florida kicker ahead of today’s clash at Penn State. Getting to one day play in Croke Park was the plan all along for Sean Galvin.

Riley Cooper did his growing up in Oklahoma City and Clearwater, Florida before playing at one of the American south’s college football behemoths, the University of Florida.

Around 150 friends and family of an award-winning director wrote messages in the sand and stepped into the water in an emotional service and tribute at the New Zealand beach where he was killed by a huge shark.

A shark said to have been up to 14ft long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach today, then disappeared after police attempting to save the man fired at the predator.

AMONG the phrases you really, really do not want to hear from climate scientists are: “that really shocked us,” “we had no idea how bad it was,” and “reality is well ahead of the climate models”.

A shark killed a 66-year-old swimmer who was training in the sea off California with a group of triathletes, authorities said today.

Belfast’s Johnny Caldwell got his final season under way as a University of South Alabama Jaguar with a top-25 finish as the University of Florida’s Sun Trust Gator Invitational.

Danny Harold Rolling, Florida’s most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy, was ”remarkably calm” as he awaited his execution for the grisly 1990 slayings of five college students in Gainesville, his attorney said today.

Peru’s President-elect Alan Garcia says voters have sent a clear message to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez: Keep out.

Alligators have clashed with pythons before in Florida’s Everglades National Park. But when two of the reptiles clashed recently , the result was not pretty.

A boy fishing in waist-deep water was bitten and critically injured in the second shark attack on a teenager along north-western Florida’s Panhandle in three days.