USA: Lightning, a spider, and now a snake — a central Florida man is proving to be a survivor.

British athletes made “sporting history” at Rio 2016, but their bosses believe Tokyo 2020 could be even better.

A man is in hospital after he was found in the sea last night off the same pier where five members of the one family died in Buncrana in March.

They came clutching flowers with despair and disbelief etched on their faces.

A young farmer believes he was simply "in the right place at the right time" when he heard a drowning fisherman’s cry for help, a half-mile away.

A fisherman is recovering after being pulled from the sea off Donegal where he was heard screaming for help while he clung to a buoy marking lobster pots.

Volunteer lifeboat crew with Lough Swilly RNLI were involved in the dramatic rescue of a lone fisherman this afternoon.

London 2012 Olympians Adam Nolan and Darren O’Neill both won their semi-finals at the National Elite Championships at Dublin’s National Stadium last night.

Author Joe Joyce speaks to Declan Burke about his latest offering, a tale set in Dublin in 1940 — a time of intrigue, betrayal and espionage

Heffernan’s reaction to missing national record:

THERE’S a definite whiff of malt in the air, white spirit is trickling from pot stills, and students eager to learn are gathered round a Scottish whiskey legend.

Three fishermen have been rescued after their boat sank off the Donegal coast.

There was double joy for Ireland in the EUBC European Men's Boxing Championships in Belarus today as both Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin and middleweight Jason Quigley were crowned champions.

OFF the track since disappointing in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown in May, the John Oxx-trained Zanughan made a successful return to action when landing the listed Ardilaun Hotel Oyster Stakes in Galway last night.

THE search for a teenager who went missing while swimming with friends off the Co Donegal coast was called off last night due to bad weather.

The search for a teenager who went missing while swimming with friends off the Co Donegal coast is resuming later today.

ONCE the new clover crop got going, replacing the artificial nitrogen, everything fell into place for farmer Noel Ó Loingsigh in Baile Bhúirne in Co Cork.

KENNETH EGAN is within one victory of a spectacular ninth successive national senior title following last night’s comprehensive defeat of Denis Hogan (Grangecon) in the first light heavyweight semi-final at the National Stadium.

Ken Egan moved to within one fight of winning his ninth Irish senior title in a row following a 16-3 semi-final win over Denis Hogan at the Elite National Senior Championships at the National Stadium in Dublin tonight.

Three Irish boxers joined Thomas McCarthy in the quarter finals of the AIBA World Youth Championships following last 16 wins in Guadalajara, Mexico last night and in the early hours of this morning.

SOME things never change!

FORMER champion, Pat Smullen took the riding honours when recording a fine double at Roscommon last night, highlighted by the all-the-way victory of Royal Intrigue in the Glenman Corporation Limited Building Contractors Lenebane Stakes, the first listed race ever to be run at the western venue.

THE race has begun to cash in on Charles Haughey memorabilia following the death of the former Taoiseach last week.

EDWARD O'GRADY, absent at his uncle the legendary P P Hogan's funeral, missed seeing Kentucky Charm land the GPT Handicap at the first stage of the Galway Festival last night.

FRANCES CROWLEY, wife of Pat Smullen and sister-in-law of Aidan O’Brien, created history at the Curragh yesterday when becoming the first lady trainer to ever saddle the winner of an Irish classic.

FRACAS maintained his unbeaten record in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown yesterday but the muddy waters surrounding the Vodafone Derby are no clearer.

Fracas maintained his unbeaten record in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown today but the muddy waters surrounding the Vodafone Derby are no clearer.

Fracas maintained his unbeaten record when just getting the better of Alayan in an exciting finish to the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown today.

LAST week Bertie Ahern was in the news over a representation made by his office on behalf of a quarry owner suffering from cancer. One of Bertie’s staff wrote a letter to a council official pleading that the quarry should not be shut down, because the owner is in ill health.