Censorship in Ireland, which was largely overturned 50 years ago, meant the public couldn’t easily get their eyes on work by our best writers, making it a badge of honour, says Donal Ó Drisceoil.

Former England hooker Brian Moore has announced he is recovering in hospital after suffering a heart attack.

Jonathan deBurca Butler joined a group of more than 50 people in Dublin to walk on fire to support the work of charity Debra Ireland

A drunk 52-year-old antique restorer engaged “in a bad case of air rage” when disrupting a Ryanair Shannon flight last year.

Welcome back England, we missed you, writes Brendan O’Brien

A Matter of Life & Death is the new book from football writer Jim White, who purports to tell the history of football in 100 quotations.

Hundreds of people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge demanding stricter gun laws and offering a litany of violent stories to show why they are needed.

With tensions in Baltimore still high, police said last night that a Fox News report of a black man being shot by police in the city was not true, and the cable news network quickly apologised.

A man wanted for illegal gun possession was charged yesterday with the attempted murder of a New York City plainclothes police officer who was shot in the head while pursuing the suspect in his unmarked car, authorities said.

They stand shoulder to shoulder with the All Blacks this morning — win for win, try for try, point for point. Ireland’s golden autumn now promises more, much more than a successful defence of the Six Nations title in the New Year.

"It’s up for grabs now."

"It’s up for grabs now."

Brian Moore was co-commentator for the BBC at the Stade de France last Saturday as Ireland and France pounded into each other for 80 of the most intense minutes of sport you could ever watch through your fingers and he was prompted to remark at one point on the copious quantities of claret oozing from the heads and faces of the players involved.

A new app has been designed which promises to help people be more anti-social.

This time of year is all about being Irish.

A family friend, who spent about 40 years in America, was a regular visitor at Lincoln Financial Park, home of the Philadelphia Eagles.

The IRB has applauded Brian O’Driscoll’s “maturity” for praising Ireland doctor Eanna Falvey, who prompted the player’s immediate substitution when he diagnosed his concussion against New Zealand.

Manu Tuilagi has been told to take his responsibilities more seriously following his prank on David Cameron – but the UK Prime Minister himself has told him an apology is not necessary.

Former England hooker Brian Moore has branded Manu Tuilagi a “complete and utter prat” for his prank on David Cameron when the British and Irish Lions gathered at Downing Street yesterday.

Toulon full-back Delon Armitage has been slammed by former and current players for his behaviour during Saturday’s Heineken Cup final win over Clermont.

Munster coach Rob Penney insisted Paul O’Connell had “absolutely nothing to answer for” following the clash which left Leinster’s Dave Kearney suffering concussion in Saturday’s RaboDirect Pro12 League tie at Thomond Park on Saturday.

A man accused of decapitating a grandmother on the holiday island of Tenerife told a court he is an “angel of Jesus Christ” sent to create a new Jerusalem.

The last decade in English rugby can perhaps be summed up by one question: ’How do you follow Martin Johnson?’

Munster A Schools 13 Leinster A Schools 22

Industrial action by Siptu next Monday will close the country’s three main airports causing travel chaos, Dublin Airport Authority has warned.

Flushed by cup fever last weekend — or perhaps slightly nauseous watching JT and Lamps plot their tag-team silverware hoist — I indulged heavily in ESPN’s gluttonous reprise of cup finals past.

Notwithstanding the fact that this year’s final boasts a collision of two modern heavyweights, the FA seems to be going out of its way to further dull the sheen of the once revered trophy which still bears its name — albeit now with a certain brew on the side.

SO DID Mickey Harte and the gang of six or seven or eight cross the line this week? Until Hawk-Eye is finally installed and working right, I suppose we won’t know. We certainly don’t want to start a family feud by asking the umpires.

From Peppa Pig to books on psychology, Munster’s James Coughlan explains to Michael Moynihan the importance of downtime between high intensity matches

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

Irish jockey Tony McCoy was joined in the parade ring by his John Smith's Grand National-winning partner Don't Push It as he was crowned champion jockey for the 15th consecutive year on the final day of the season at Sandown.

NEW ZEALAND referees boss Lyndon Bray is backing Bryce Lawrence after his actions as assistant referee in the second British and Irish Lions Test against South Africa saw him savaged in the British and Irish media.

SOUTH AFRICA coach Peter de Villiers has launched an astonishing defence of banned flanker Schalk Burger, who gouged Ireland’s Luke Fitzgerald in Saturday’s second test.

Twenty years ago tonight, Arsenal and Liverpool staged the most remarkable climax in history to an English football season. “A night of chilling simplicity” as commentator Brian Moore called it. Tony Leen was there.

A CORKMAN only discovered his kidneys had almost totally failed while having a medical test as part of his job as a journalist.

Former England international Brian Moore has claimed plans to stage a one-off match between the Six Nations and Tri-Nations champions would only serve to “devalue” existing international clashes.

Wales captain Ryan Jones is flattered to be considered a potential candidate to lead the Lions on their 2009 tour of South Africa.

FORMER England hooker Brian Moore has launched a scathing attack on Eddie O’Sullivan and the Irish squad for their performances at the Rugby World Cup.

CHOKERS and choking.

The International Rugby Board (IRB) is to introduce a new tough but more rational policy to deal with illegal and foul-play offenders.

FOOTBALL supporters of Ireland, their country needs you.

MIDLETON-based Everest Metal International and its sister company Everest Metal Finishing in the US has been acquired by Symmetry Medical in a $8.8 million (€6.87m) deal.

A 25-year-old Irish volunteer aid worker has died in a car accident in Ethiopia, it emerged today.