Greta Thunberg has been named Time's Person of the Year.

My five-year-old bumped into his best friend on the way into school yesterday morning.

The new Vice President of the FAI, Paul Cooke, has said that he believes the Association is “genuinely on the road to reform”.

Patrickswell hold the only 100% record after two rounds of the Bon Secours Hospital Limerick Senior Hurling Championship.

Tipperary will meet Waterford next Wednesday in the second round Munster MFC play-off after this extra-time win over Limerick in Newcastle West last night.

Arsenal have rejected an approach for Alexis Sanchez from Manchester City as Pep Guardiola steps up his pursuit of the Chile forward.

Legendary Mortal Kombat combatant Sub-Zero is now available in the top-selling DC Comics fighting game Injustice 2.

The incentives for the Cork minor hurlers are many: To be the team that ends the county’s nine-year wait for a Munster final appearance at this level, to end the reign of the 2016 All-Ireland champions, to exact revenge for defeat by Tipperary at this hurdle last year, and to ensure there are two Cork teams at Semple Stadium on July 9.

Cathal Toal secured his place in the Ulster final of the Joe McVeigh Cup qualifier for the Ból-Fada with a line-to-line win over Bryan O’Reilly and Eddie Carr.

The returning David Moran is one of five changes to the Kerry side for today’s McGrath Cup final clash with Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds (3pm).

A French court has overturned a ban on burkinis issued in Cannes - the first in a series of bans on the swimwear this summer that set off a heated controversy at home and a wave of outrage abroad.

Alice Barry’s play tells the true story of an Irish woman who tried to kill Mussolini, writes Colette Sheridan

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All top four sides won in Division One of the Munster Junior League as both Kilfeacle and Bandon recorded bonus-point wins.

Another classic character has joined Street Fighter V’s playable roster. Everyone’s favourite Russian wrestler, Zangief, will feature in the upcoming brawler.

Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and who was later sentenced to death as part of the regime that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in a hospital in southern Iraq, officials said. He was 79.

The 19th century Cork artist, Daniel MacDonald, was the only painter brave enough to paint the Famine as it was happening, and Professor Niamh O’Sullivan is appealing to people in the Cork area to scour their attics for his valuable work.

I object to the selection of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the Tipperary International Peace Prize. It is untimely and misplaced.

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"WHEN I win this vote, I will go on to be Taoiseach," said a fiery Enda Kenny — to a roar described by one TD as being "as loud of those vuvuzela horns in South Africa" — as he delivered a rousing speech in a packed Leinster House meeting room, which saw off party rebels seeking to oust him.

A Dubliner who helped overthrow Libyan dictator Colonel Gadaffi has been elected Mayor of the country's capital Tripoli.

Bank of Ireland is preparing to boost its capital reserves with the sale of a euro-denominated tier 2 bond — its first since December 2012.

Winnie-The-Pooh has triumphed over modern titles such as The Gruffalo to be named the best-loved children’s book of the last 150 years.

Liverpool: Losing on goal difference having scored 101 goals would have been too cruel

The screams for Simon Zebo from the younger fans outside the Munster dressing room at Musgrave Park may have been high-pitched and piercing but the appreciation for Donncha O’Callaghan’s contribution to his province’s cause lingered longer in the Cork air on Saturday night.

Wayne Rooney scored twice to deny Andre Villas-Boas’ Tottenham a morale-boosting win over the champions at White Hart Lane.

A suspected Libyan al Qaida figure captured by US special forces in a dramatic operation in Tripoli was living freely in his homeland for the past two years, after a trajectory that took him to Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran, where he had been detained for years, his family has said.

AN agitated Andre Villas-Boas effectively confirmed Gareth Bale’s transfer to Real Madrid is imminent, while also expressing disappointment with the player’s conduct in his attempts to force an exit.

THAT Egypt has a new strongman is no longer in doubt.

Camross and Borris-Kilcotton were the big winners over the weekend in the Laois SHC as they both ensured their places in the semi-finals with surprise wins.

Gareth Bale will sit out the latest Tottenham pre-season friendly due to injury today as he continues to be linked with Spanish giants Real Madrid.

IRB JUNIOR WORLD CUP POOLS:

CELLMOUNT LOOP, DROUMILLIHY WOODS, CO CORK

Cork have made one change in personnel to their side for tomorrow night’s Munster U21FC final against Tipperary in Thurles (7.30pm).

French coach Philippe Saint-André fears the impact of foreign stars in France’s Top 14 is hurting the national side.

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers admits the club will have to at least give an indication they are capable of qualifying for the Champions League if they are to attract top-quality players.

An Israeli missile flattened a two-story house in a residential neighbourhood of Gaza City today, killing at least 11 civilians, medical officials said.

An air strike killed al Qaida’s second in command in Yemen along with six others travelling with him in a car, US and Yemeni officials said.

Al-Qaida’s second in command in Pakistan was in a house hit by a US drone strike, according to intelligence officials, but they do not know whether he was killed.