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Champions-elect Cork City were beaten away from home for the first time all season and they shipped three goals for the first time too as Shamrock Rovers repeated their EA Sports Cup, semi-final victory over the same opposition at Tallaght Stadium tonight.

Shamrock Rovers 1 Cork City 0 (AET): At the end of a long night in Tallaght, Shamrock Rovers finally got the better of a gutsy Cork City to qualify for the EA Sports Cup final against Dundalk on September 16.

It’s going to be a busy weekend in Limerick with almost 500 crews from over 70 schools across the country travelling to O’Briens Bridge for Sunday’s Irish Schools Regatta, which follows the Limerick Regatta at the same venue on Saturday.

Eight more people, including a 15-year-old boy, have appeared in court in England over a suspected hate attack which left a teenage asylum seeker fighting for his life.

Some highly-charged racing is in store when the Colours Races — those famous head-to-heads between the crews of Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin — take place on Saturday on the River Liffey.

Rowing Ireland’s High Performance director, Morten Espersen confirmed this week he is resigning from his position, bringing to a close a huge contribution made by the Dane over the past four years. 

Legendary filmmaker John Carpenter (The Thing, Escape from New York) landed in Dublin for one night only to play some of his most iconic scores live in front of a crowd at Vicar Street.

Stranger Things is on Netflix tomorrow, bringing plenty of supernatural stuff to the streaming service.

Green Room is an upcoming thriller from Jeremy Saulnier, and that's a name you're going to want to remember because its one of the best films of the year.

A Polish carpenter who had two fingers cut off by an industrial saw during the construction of the Limerick tunnel continues to suffer stress and social anxiety about the disfigurement of his hand, a doctor said at the High Court yesterday.

A carpenter working on the construction of Limerick tunnel in 2008 had two fingers cut off in an industrial saw and yesterday he began a High Court action.

Midnight Special is the latest movie from director Jeff Nichols and sees him playing with a bigger budget for a unique sci fi tale

France 41 Canada 18: Another comfortable margin on the scoreboard for France, but doubts hang over Philippe Saint-Andre’s side ahead of their final Pool D encounter with Ireland on Sunday week after a workmanlike defeat of Canada in stadium:mk last night.

Pool D: France v Canada

Ireland boss Joe Schmidt toasted fly-half Johnny Sexton after his playmaker helped get his team's World Cup Pool D campaign off to a flying start with a seven-try rout of Canada.

A US woman who was struck in the head by a broken baseball bat is in a serious condition in hospital.

Remakes continue to be a thing, and often a very unecessary thing.

Remakes continue to be a thing, and often a very unecessary thing.

Remakes continue to be a thing, and often a very unecessary thing.

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Whether a victim of a coup or ill health, his absence raises fears of military action, writes Christopher Harress.

Welsh international rugby star Ian Gough was today found guilty of attacking his ex-girlfriend, former Miss Wales Sophia Cahill, just days after she got engaged to pop star Dane Bowers.

HOLLY CARPENTER is savvy enough to know modelling is a short-term career and to keep her career on track she’ll need to diversify.

A woman hurled a shoe at Hillary Clinton as the former secretary of state was delivering a speech at a Las Vegas hotel, but Clinton dodged it and continued with her remarks, said a US Secret Service spokesman.

Murray Carpenter

MINE’S a flat white. Plus a couple of squares of dark chocolate and a few cups of Earl Grey tea.

Newly crowned All-Ireland Club SFC champions St Vincents will take on Africa’s first GAA team this weekend.

IT’S like déjà vu all over again.

One of the personal assistants accused of defrauding Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi has told a court the TV cook allowed their children to smoke cannabis.

Jurors in the trial of two personal assistants to Nigella Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi, who are accused of using a company credit card to spend more than £685,000 (€820,000) on themselves, have been told the case is “not about other issues of matrimonial discord or drug taking”.

A South African carpenter who lost four fingers on a circular saw has built his own cut-price prosthetic replacement using 3D printing.

A South African carpenter who lost four fingers on a circular saw has built his own cut-price prosthetic replacement using 3D printing.

Teagasc’s GM potato trials can help counter blight and combat projected world hunger, says Tipperary farmer Tommy Cooke.

CANCER is a terrifying word for the parents of children diagnosed with the disease. How many children are diagnosed with cancer in Ireland each year and what are their prospects?

IFA president John Bryan has called on retailers and merchants to address the low prices currently being paid for potatoes.

A SURGE in potato production and predatory retail pricing have left growers facing a possible wipeout, according to IFA national potato committee chairman Thomas Carpenter.

In 1982, John Carpenter directed the science-fiction horror 'The Thing', which imagined a violent battle between humans and a parasitic life form with the ability to clone its prey.

POTATO growers are taking just 30% of the consumer price, and are coming under severe price pressure from retailers, according to a new IFA membership survey.

The St Louis Cardinals secured an 11th World Series success as they beat the Texas Rangers 6-2 in the seventh and final game between the two.

NEW ZEALAND rolled over Canada in their World Cup encounter in Pool A in Wellington but the performance of Dan Carter’s replacement gave the All Blacks cause for concern.

GRAHAM HENRY will take charge of his 100th All Blacks Test match when New Zealand conclude their World Cup Pool A campaign against Canada in Wellington tomorrow (3.30am Irish time).

FRANCE coach Marc Lievremont was “satisfied” after seeing his side claim a second straight bonus-point win in Pool A with a 46-19 success over Canada in Napier.