Pardew said: "Damo (Delaney) is a leader. He's not blessed with massive amounts of talent but he makes up for it with his personality, desire and leadership, and we got all of that from him."

Our TV habits have been transformed. So how do we judge the ratings anymore? And who delivers the best on the box?

The second instalment of the 2015 Irish Film and Television Awards is fast approaching, and a list of final nominees including Chris O’Dowd, Deirdre O’Kane and Brendan O’Carroll, has just been announced.

Just how did a Japanese artist begin drawing characters from Father Ted and publishing them every day? Noel Baker finds out from Dublin-based sketcher Shota Kotake

You can’t beat a round of applause.I don’t know if it’s the approval that I love when I’m doing stand-up.

Brian O’Driscoll has recalled being wrongfully arrested for assault and how the shock of a friend’s death left him a sobbing wreck.

Psychology Today magazine claims the average four-year-old laughs 300 times a day, while a 40-year-old only does four times.

Our Damo puts doggy fashion words to well-known melodies, with hilarious results.

Dublin writer Mark Cantan unleashes his first professionally produced full-length play at the Project. Pádraic Killeen reports

Andrew Browne wants to mark his Heineken Cup debut on Friday night by ousting the 2010 finalists Biarritz at the Sportsground.

The independence of the Garda Ombudsman Commission has been called into question at an inquest in Limerick into the deaths of two men who were hit by a car driven by a garda who was going off duty late at night.

THEY’VE been labelled the “Irish foreign legion”, “the Celtic Convoy” and the “Green Army”, amongst other things, but one thing is certain — the Irish arrived on Kiwi shores to support Ireland in their droves.