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Eight years have whizzed by since the Limerick footballers pushed Kerry all the way in a Munster senior football final.

Cork camogie manager Paudie Murray is adamant he didn’t threaten any players with the end of their inter-county careers if they played for UCC in the O’Connor Cup at the weekend.

From a doggie delight to a great interiors event, there’s a spring in Esther N McCarthy’s step...

Katie Taylor has vowed to unify the titles versus Argentina’s Victoria La Leona (The Lioness) Bustos in New York next month

Colm Cooper maintains he made did nothing wrong in agreeing to the October testimonial that saw him pick up a sizeable cheque.

Gary O’Sullivan is hoping to secure a rematch with old friend and foe Billy Joe Saunders, the WBO middleweight champion, after a shock victory in Canada put him right back in the world title frame.

Katie Taylor should hang up her gloves and retire, according to her dad and former coach Pete Taylor.

Nathan Carter has a new TV show starting on Sunday and a big gig lined up in Dublin in the spring. Life sure is good, he tells Ed Power

Rory McIlroy will try to defend his FedEx Cup title after deciding against sitting out the rest of the season to rest a persistent rib injury.

April the giraffe has brought a bundle of joy to a small zoo in rural New York, thanks to a YouTube livestream of her pregnancy and birth of a calf that riveted viewers around the world.

A short taxi journey will cost one travel agent €1,000 in compensation and he will also likely have to make a contribution to the court poor box if he wants to avoid a conviction after he got involved in a row in a taxi.

There was a shock in the first semi-final of the Best Car Parks Gold Cup on Saturday night at Shelbourne Park, in which 10-1 chance Painstown Chief produced a game effort to see off all-comers.

And placed seventh.

A dog who snuck out of her back garden inadvertently ended up running a full half-marathon - and finished seventh.

Holly Holm took the MMA world by surprise when she outclassed UFC champion Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 on November 15.

An elderly dog abandoned at a shelter in a hot box with no water and maggots under her fur has been reunited with her previous owner.

The mother of murdered April Jones has refused to read the book which she and her husband have published about their ordeal.

Faith Ryan sinks her toes into aged rugs, searches out invisible switches and considers moving out to a vintage caravan for the summer.

To celebrate hitting 100,000,000 downloads as part of its Games with Gold promotion, Microsoft is doubling the number of games it gives away for April. Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be able to download two Xbox One titles and four Xbox 360 games.

Cameron Diaz received the dubious honour of being dubbed the year’s worst actress at the 35th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards (aka the Razzies).

The parents of April Jones wept today as they watched the demolition of the “house of evil” where she is believed to have been murdered.

The house where paedophile Mark Bridger is believed to have murdered April Jones is being readied for demolition.

Jose Mourinho’s previous visits to Anfield would offer some of the juiciest parts of any future autobiography, but the Portuguese clearly has no willingness to do such a book just yet.

Former Round the World race skipper and professional sailor Joe English has died, aged 58.

The death has taken place of Cork yachtsman Joe English, the former skipper of Ireland’s first entry in the Whitbread Round the World Race.

Declan Burke casts his eye over the latest movie releases. 

This week, Robert Downey Jr stars in courtroom drama The Judge, live-action fantasy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and high-school sweethearts get a second chance at love in The Best of Me.

We were lucky enough to grab a sneak peek of the 2015 version of the Irish Farmers Calendar.

Truth be told, Darran O’Sullivan was surprised he started the semi-final against Clare. To be taken off at half-time wasn’t all that earth-shattering.

For kids to have Care Bears, it’s nothing out of the ordinary. But what about a 20-year-old woman with a collection of 600?

There’s one groom who was guaranteed not to have cold feet on his big day - because a nearby brush fire kept them warm.

1. Abigail Ahern Sharing trade secrets, decorating differently and yabbering are just some of the tabs worth a click on interior designer Abigail Ahern’s Wordpress site.

Tune into TV3 at 7.30pm for live coverage of the Uefa Champions League quarter-final, second-leg match at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.

Tune into TV3 at 10pm tonight to watch The Pipe. The story of a rural community in Co Mayo in Ireland that has been battling the oil giant Shell over their plans to put a raw gas pipeline through the community.

Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker present The Last Leg tonight at 10pm on Channel 4. The trio are joined by comedian Frank Skinner.

The man who murdered April Jones has launched a legal bid to overturn a ruling that he must spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Pink balloons and lanterns will be released this evening in memory of murdered schoolgirl April Jones.

The family of April Jones said a final farewell today as the Welsh town that shared their grief came to a standstill.

The Welsh hometown of April Jones was decorated with pink today as the community prepared to say goodbye to the murdered schoolgirl.

A funeral for murdered Welsh schoolgirl April Jones will finally take place this week just days before the first anniversary of her abduction.

The parents of April Jones can at last begin to plan their daughter’s funeral after an inquest into her death was concluded.

The parents of murdered April Jones can at last begin to plan their daughter's funeral after an inquest into her death was concluded.