Augusta Masters champion Danny Willett will add to the cast of homegrown major winners when he keeps his promise to play next month’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at the K Club.

Gavin Moynihan steps onto the first tee in Monza later today as the European Tour’s newest professional with Ryder Cup captains past and present praising the 20-year-old.

Hundreds of nursing homes will today demand that Health Minister Leo Varadkar take control of the nurse registration crisis.

Woman snared victim at casino, then let killers into ‘soft target’s’ flat

Dynastic dramas are back, thanks to major new Netflix series, Bloodlines. Kyle Chandler tells Ed Power all about it.

Kerri Chandler returns to Cork, a city he has long had a love affair with, writes Don O’Mahony.

A previously unseen letter which features Jane Austen’s first mention of her upcoming novel Pride And Prejudice has gone on public display.

1994: The One with Whigfield, Ray Houghton, Blur v Oasis, Riverdance and THAT Guinness ad.

On September 22, 1994, we first met Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey, and we stay in touch via reruns, says Paula Burns

When Rory McIlroy took a two-shot lead into the weekend at Valhalla he was asked about the keys to his amazing summer.

Some caddies find it difficult to live by the age-old maxim to keep up and shut up but that’s no problem for JP Fitzgerald.

It began in January 2013, with an Abu Dhabi laser show worthy of the New Year’s Eve fireworks in Australia that served as a backdrop for his ill-fated engagement to Caroline Wozniacki nearly one year later.

Mad Men fans are gearing up for the final series — but how will it end for Don Draper? John Daly looks back at other iconic TV show finales.

Benjamin Black

A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life

Michael Connelly was known for his detective, Harry Bosch, until the success of The Lincoln Lawyer and its protagonist Mickey Haller, says Declan Burke

Newly-crowned European number one Henrik Stenson has given a guarded welcome to a new European Tour regulation requiring players to support their home events or be forced to play an extra two tournaments.

Rory McIlroy joined the Swedish pair of Henrik Stenson, Peter Hanson and China’s Ashun Wu at the famed Bund in Shanghai for the launch of this week’s BMW Masters.

Haruki Murakami

Graeme McDowell watched from afar as the carnage unfolded at Muirfield in 2002, but still rates the Open Championship as his best bet for a second major title.

Rory McIlroy will head into the Open Championship at Muirfield on the back of a missed cut at the Irish Open – and was joined in making an early exit by fellow major winners Graeme McDowell, Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke.

Did you cry with your buddy while watching Fergie say farewell at Old Trafford?

Nicky Henderson is thankful Cheltenham’s big meeting today looks likely to beat the weather as it enables him to get Sprinter Sacre back in action in the rearranged Victor Chandler Chase.

Sprinter Sacre is one of nine confirmations for the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot on Saturday.

Sprinter Sacre is the standout name among just 13 entries for the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot on January 19.

It took some of golf’s cogniscenti a while to digest the depth of Rory McIlroy’s quality. No one is doubting the torch has passed now. By Jim McCabe.

It is little more than 18 months since JP Fitzgerald was vilified for his perceived part in Rory McIlroy’s meltdown in the final round of the Masters.

Bog Warrior is likely to be back in action in “three to four weeks” after his fall at Down Royal on Saturday.

The decision by a priest not to allow yoga classes to take place at his parish hall in Britain made headlines in the past week.

It may be a space that is overwhelmed by outsize speakers, overstuffed lazy boy chairs; a beer fridge and a television the size of the wall, but it’s a place of refuge, says Carol O’Callaghan.

John Connolly and Declan Burke convinced great writers to write about their favourite mystery novels. Val Nolan is impressed

Richard Fitzpatrick quotes Raymond Chandler: “When in doubt have a man come in the door with a gun in his hand.”

Rory McIlroy says he split with manager Andrew Chandler last year because he felt his career was taking a wrong direction.

Rory McIlroy has revealed he dumped manager Andrew ’Chubby’ Chandler because he felt he was “being led down the wrong path”.

Former Triumph Hurdle winner Zaynar has left Nick Williams and will join David Pipe with immediate effect.

GLOBAL food commodity prices will fall during 2012, but not to levels to cause undue alarm to producers, according to leading investment analysts.

RORY McILROY’S decision to leave International Sports Management left company founder Chubby Chandler in “shock”, the charismatic sports agent and player manager has admitted.

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RORY MCILROY says his shock split from manager Andrew “Chubby” Chandler was “a very difficult decision to make”.

Rory McIlroy says he remains “very close” to the man he dropped as his manager last month and insists there was “nothing personal at all” in the move that stunned golf.

DUBLIN-based sports management company Horizon, headed by Galway man Conor Ridge, pulled off its biggest coup yesterday with the news that US Open champion and world No 3 Rory McIlroy will become their latest acquisition after leaving Andrew “Chubby” Chandler’s International Sports Management (ISM) company.

THE announcement that Rory McIlroy split from management company International Sports Management (ISM), headed by Chubby Chandler, will come as a surprise to many but others who have been following Rory’s meteoric rise through the pro ranks saw this one coming.