Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a sports photographer at a major sporting event?

“If someone gets a little bit of limelight then we know someone else did a dirty job to make sure he did."

Joe Schmidt has named his starting 15 and, as anticipated, Ian Keatley starts in the number ten shirt alongside Munster team-mate Conor Murray at scrum-half.

It escaped the attention of the press box in Killarney at the time but Michael Conroy was indeed a temporary replacement (ie, a blood substitute) for Evan Regan on Sunday, writes John Fogarty.

Kevin Batt, Ireland’s newest middle distance star is ready and waiting for Sunday’s European cross country championships.

The TG4 Ladies Football All Star Awards took place at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin last night with 15 All Star Awards presented to the winning players along with Player's Player of the Year awards.

A Co Waterford-based technology company has signed a deal with O2 that could result in the creation of up to 40 jobs.

People who succeed in life are not always the “brightest and the best”, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary told university scholarship students from the 32 counties over the weekend.

You wouldn't see this kind of thing that that auld 'Premier League'.

The National Basketball Arena in Tallaght is the place to be this week as it plays host to the All Ireland Schools Basketball League Finals.

The week of a Six Nations game invariably relies upon the perceived area of greatest weakness in the opposition for lively debate. When Ireland and England go through that process, you can be sure the scrum comes up for mention.

RBS Six Nations: Ireland v England

It isn’t all big lenses and state of the art camera gear for photographer Brendan Moran at the Olympics.

A summer of stepping up to the mark.

KEVIN McLAUGHLIN hasn’t exactly got a wealth of experience when it comes to playing rugby in France but he has enough to know what to expect in Montpellier this Saturday.

THOUGH much is being made about Italy’s scrum in the build-up to Sunday’s winner takes all Pool C finale against Ireland, there is another big weapon in the Italian armoury according to Shane Jennings.

IF Italy ran with the ball as much as they do with their fighting talk, we could be in for a very different game this Sunday rather than the arm wrestle they will try and force on Ireland.

SATURDAY’s epic World Cup victory over Australia was kindled over a week of strong words and significant acts in the Ireland camp.

FORMER Leinster hero Rocky Elsom has labelled Ireland’s back row as one of the most underrated in international rugby ahead of Australia’s World Cup game with the Irish at Eden Park tomorrow.

COLM JUDGE has been dropped from the Louth panel ahead of tomorrow’s Leinster SFC quarter-final against Carlow.

KEITH EARLS is looking for the world class performance he believes Ireland are capable of in Sunday’s RBS 6 Nations joust with Scotland at Murrayfield.

Table toppers Limerick will chase their second win in NFL Division 4 on Saturday night, as they bid to secure promotion back into the league's third tier.

IT may be coming up to Valentine’s Day but Galway footballers could be forgiven for thinking it is Halloween after being made watch a horror DVD.

Conor Keane, Business Correspondent

All passengers stranded abroad after the Irish tour operator JetGreen stopped trading will be flown home, it was confirmed today.

VALUE ADDED TAX is one of those red-rag-to-a-bull issues used every now and again to whip up anger. It adds a fifth to almost every bill we pay in Ireland — one of the highest rates in the EU — but we seldom notice unless we are first quoted a price minus VAT.

IRISH tourists in Spain's Costa Blanca were advised yesterday to be vigilant following two hotel bomb blasts.

IRISH sun-seekers worried about war in the Gulf will lose deposits for holidays booked unless their destination is on the Government’s ‘danger list’.

JER O’DONOGHUE (Leevale) once again highlighted his liking for the Nenagh Indoor Arena with another sparkling performance in the 60m at the Munster indoor championships yesterday, clipping six hundredths of a second off the time he ran at the AAI Games a week earlier.

An air-traffic controllers' strike in France will come into effect this evening.

Spain and Portugal are shaping up to be the most popular destinations for Irish holiday makers this year.