The pair welcomed their baby daughter in November.

After winning four times in 2019 and racking up 19 top-10 finishes from 25 starts to win the PGA Tour Player of the Year award, it’s been a memorable season for Rory McIlroy.

Lisa Maguire's decision to retire from professional tournament golf just 17 months after taking the plunge will come as no surprise to regular observers of the vicissitudes of life in the paid ranks.

Rory McIlroy is determined to end a four-year wait for a World Golf Championships victory at the WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai this week.

Shane Lowry has recovered from a shaky start to card a two-under par 69 on the opening day of the Northern Trust.

Manchester United may have finished only sixth in the table last season but they comfortably retained their position as the leading developers of Premier League talent.

Nobody could be happier than Pádraig Harrington that Royal Portrush is staging the 148th Open Championship this week but the two-time Claret Jug winner wishes his favourite golf course was not in quite such good nick.

Rory McIlroy insists he would not swap his consistency for world number one Brooks Koepka’s feast-or-famine approach.

Majors are a test of mental strength, and Shane Lowry felt as much a winner as Brooks Koepka following his gutsy tie for eighth alongside Rory McIlroy in the US PGA at Bethpage Black.

Graeme McDowell was happy to escape Bethpage with only superficial damage as he looks forward to returning to the scene of his greatest triumph.

The days of Brooks Koepka flying under the radar are officially over.

After Brooks Koepka blistered Bethpage Black with a seven-under 63, he was asked to name the best hole at one of America golf’s toughest golf courses.

In years to come when the history of Irish agriculture is being written, and downturns are being discussed, some will no doubt point to the bad winter of 2012.

Burnley ended their miserable start to the Premier League season in style with a thumping win over Bournemouth at Turf Moor to climb off the bottom of the table.

“There seems to be a feeling nobody totally understands what it’s about,” admitted Martin O’Neill ahead of this Nations League tie with Wales in Cardiff.

David Brooks says he never considered changing his mind, like the Republic of Ireland’s Declan Rice, after pledging his international allegiance to Wales.

It's back!

The brother of a Government minister has been convicted of not paying the duty on a quantity of cigarettes after a senior lawyer for the Revenue Commissioners said the legislation in place does not allow any alternative.

One was about power. The other was about patience.

Justin Rose got his first PGA Tour victory at Jack Nicklaus’ tournament. His latest came after finishing 20 under at Hogan’s Alley, three strokes ahead of defending US Open champion Brooks Koepka.

A solicitor representing a junior minister’s brother facing a charge of failing to declare €400 of cigarettes he had for sale in his shop yesterday queried why the Revenue Commissioners were seeking “a pound of flesh”.

Tournament host Sergio Garcia dedicated victory in the Andalucia Valderrama Masters to wife Angela and unborn child after claiming a sixth victory on home soil.

Real Madrid are said to be plotting a £150m move for Harry Kane next summer, according to the papers.

A judge has asked Revenue to reconsider if it wants to secure a conviction against a shopkeeper of “impeccable character” who had failed to declare €400 of cigarettes he had for sale.

Chris Coleman insists England Under-20 international David Brooks deserves his Wales call despite acknowledging that it "will cause ripples the other side of the bridge".

Bryan Cooper begins a new chapter in his riding career with one ride at Worcester on Monday.

South Africa's Shaun Norris made the most of the best conditions of the day as the third round of the 146th Open Championship got under way on Saturday.

A Bohemians football supporter involved in a pre-match melee with other Bohs and Cork City fans yesterday pleaded guilty to his part in the affray .

Who would have thought that a marquee in Cork could attract the world’s biggest music acts? Peter Aiken reflects on 12 years of Live at the Marquee with Ed Power.

A man with an online gambling addiction sought to cover debts by shortchanging his employer while working in the bar of one of the country’s best-known hotels.

The pound lost steam but continued to hover near six-month highs as investors took an optimistic view of Prime Minister Theresa May's plans for a general election in June.

A man found near his upturned car on a rural road the morning after celebrating his birthday told gardaí he had been walking home and found it that way.

A man found near his upturned car on a rural road the morning after celebrating his birthday told gardaí he had been walking home and found it that way.

"We’ve got one going out, pray for him and his family. And for the president going in, pray for him and his family to guide this nation."

While racist groups have proliferated in the US for some time, the arrival of Donald Trump has emboldened them, writes Bette Browne

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Rory McIlroy has suggested the US could be trying too hard to win back the Ryder Cup this week, preferring Europe’s natural recipe for success to the Americans’ taskforce-driven search for the formula.

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Goldman Sachs says the dollar slump is over.

A firefighter in West Cork made a series of hoax emergency calls that led to the deployment of the fire brigade to non-existent fires.