Derry City must secure at least a share of the spoils against Finn Harps on Friday night if they are to secure Europa League football next season

The decision was made by the 11-judge Supreme Court after British Prime Minister Johnson suspended parliament for five weeks ahead of the October 31 Brexit deadline

Glen McAuley and Dave Webster were the St Patrick’s Athletic goalscorers once again as they came from behind to secure victory for the second week running.

Teenager Glen McAuley was sprung from the bench to score his first goal for St Patrick’s Athletic, who had to come behind to put First Division Bray Wanderers out of the FAI Cup at Richmond Park last night.

For the third time this season, a late St Patrick’s Athletic goal proved costly for Cork City as Ronan Hale struck a 90th-minute winner at Turner’s Cross.

As Irish football slips further into crisis, U21 boss Noel King insists the public ought to lower their expectations when it comes to how the FAI’s international teams fare.

Ireland 3 Iceland 1: Derry City midfielder Rory Hale took just 14 seconds to mark his international U21 debut last night with a goal by firing Ireland on the way to victory against Iceland.

When Dundalk and Waterford United met in a promotion/relegation play-off in November 2012, the two clubs appeared to be travelling in polar opposite directions.

Poker player Phil Ivey is taking his legal battle against a London casino over his £7.7m winnings to the Supreme Court in England.

A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump's free speech defence against a lawsuit accusing him of inciting violence against protesters at a campaign rally.

Wales 7 Ireland 12: Ireland Women’s head coach Tom Tierney is wary of the challenge his team face in Friday’s Six Nations Grand Slam decider with England.

With an incredible total of 24 FAI Cup final victories, Shamrock Rovers have a sense of ownership of the trophy, writes Liam Mackey

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A man wanted for an alleged £1.5m swindle in South Africa has been unmasked as a fugitive by a former pupil at a British school where he taught.

Two years ago, ‘Bridesmaids’ wooed audiences with the wickedly foul-mouthed antics of six 30-something women behaving badly.

A woman has told an inquest how her 16-year-old son hanged himself after his “personality changed” having been prescribed an acne medication which had reported side effects of depression and suicidal tendencies.

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It might be the closest Ireland ever gets to hosting the Olympics, but the visit of the Olympic torch to Dublin today is being celebrated like an Irish gold medal in the London games later this summer.

HOWARD JOHNSON has questioned the professionalism of Paul Gallagher after dispensing with the services of the 24-year-old conditional jockey who joined him from Ferdy Murphy in February.

GOALKEEPER Sean Whitty’s sudden-death heroics earned De La Salle, Waterford their first FAI Schools Tony O’Neill Senior Cup title at Tolka Park yesterday.

Phil Kinsella faces another lengthy spell on the sidelines after fracturing his skull in a horrific fall at Market Rasen on Tuesday.

GORDON BROWN insisted yesterday he did understand public fears about immigration as he tried to move on from his “bigot” slur.

A MAN whose wife tried to kill him by slitting his throat after plying him with a sex drug said yesterday he still loved her and wanted her freed from prison.

THE jury in the trial of a woman accused of trying to kill her husband before meeting another man she met on the internet was sent home for the weekend yesterday.

The funeral of a British Army captain killed in an explosion in Afghanistan is taking place in Hillsborough, Co. Down.

ASTRONAUTS on the shuttle Columbia were trying to regain control of their craft before it broke apart in 2003, but there was no chance of surviving the accident, says a Nasa report.

Ryan Mania is set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines after breaking his femur in a fall at Wetherby yesterday.

The European Convention on Human Rights does apply to the case of an Iraqi man who died while in the custody of British troops, the House of Lords ruled today.

The space shuttle Atlantis was in pursuit of the international space station today, but will not catch it until tomorrow afternoon.

FOLLOWING the 14-14 draw at The Belfry in 1989, another desperately close finish was always on the cards at Kiawah Island in European captain Bernard Gallacher’s first match in charge.

Astronauts today gave the space shuttle a four-and-a-half hour inspection using cameras on the orbiter’s robotic arm early to see if its heat shield was damaged by a mysterious object that apparently floated off the spacecraft.

China’s oldest car manufacturer plans to build a US assembly plant in southern Oklahoma to help revive the MG automotive brand.

Discovery’s crew used highly sensitive cameras attached to a 15-metre boom today to carefully examine the space shuttle for any signs of damage from the previous day’s launch.

Graham Lee hopes to be back in action at Newcastle on Wednesday after injuring his ankle in a fall at Catterick.

The winner of a school board election in California didn’t campaign, attend forums or even go to any school board meetings before the vote – because he was in jail.

ROBERT WINSTON suffered multiple fractures of his jaw in a crashing fall at Ayr on Saturday night, dashing his hopes of a first jockeys’ championship.

NASA has cleared Discovery to return to Earth next week, concluding that there was no need to send the astronauts out on another spacewalk to repair a torn thermal blanket near a cockpit window.

A SPACEWALKING astronaut gently pulled two potentially dangerous strips of protruding filler from Discovery’s tile belly with his gloved hand yesterday, successfully completing an unprecedented emergency repair.

DISCOVERY astronauts are today set to perform a high-stakes task that has never before been attempted: sending a spacewalker beneath the craft to repair material sticking out from the ship’s thermal tile belly.

Discovery’s astronauts are preparing for a high-stakes task that’s never before been attempted: sending a spacewalker beneath the craft to repair filler sticking out from ship’s thermal tile belly.

Space shuttle Discovery escaped damage from the potentially deadly chunk of foam that broke off from the fuel tank during lift-off, but may have been struck in the wing by a much smaller piece, Nasa says.

Nasa has grounded future shuttle flights because a big chunk of insulating foam flew off Discovery’s fuel tank during lift-off as it did with Columbia - but this time apparently missed the spacecraft.

Nasa has put off its long-awaited resumption of space shuttle flight until at least next week, saying it is no closer to finding what caused a fuel gauge to fail in the first launch countdown.