Two more days until the dawn of a new era for the Republic of Ireland senior men’s team and, with Mick McCarthy’s hand back on the tiller, there has been an inevitable focus on the contrast between his current rank and file and those under his command when he first roamed international waters with the Boys in Green.

TV3 set its stall out on Ireland AM by booking a stylist to select the perfect match outfit. These people know Rugby Country alright.

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Tomorrow evening, Joe Molloy will take the next step in a lauded but relatively low-key career when he debuts as anchor of TV3’s Six Nations coverage. Even his dad has told him this one is huge so he is nervous, anxious not to ‘make a balls of it’, but also determined to trust the instincts that have made him a three-time radio sports broadcaster of the year.

TV3 is to change its name as part of a major rebranding of the station later this year.

The son of a 62-year-old man beaten to death by a man half his age has said he cannot stop thinking of him drowning in his own blood with nobody to help him, writes Natasha Reid.

TV3 presenter Kirsteen O’Sullivan is excited about Extra Time, the new football entertainment show she’s co-hosting during Euros season with Joe Molloy from Off The Ball.

Republic of Ireland international midfielder Harry Arter has insisted that missing the European Championships due to injury is “not the end of the world.”

Once he was on Jim McGuinness’s wedding invite list. Now he’s on Jim’s blacklist. And his own club’s list of suspended members. 

Their worst fears have been confirmed, the old boys at the R&A who reluctantly prized their doors slightly ajar to ‘ladies’ last year.

Here's what we recommend to watch on the box tonight.

Here's what's on the box tonight.

A former businessman who shared thousands of images of child pornography online is to be jailed on Monday.

Rugby pundit Neil Francis has denied he was stereotyping or generalising when he claimed that up to 90% of gay men had no interest or involvement in sport.

A 31-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with the murder of a former rugby player in Dublin at the weekend.

Newstalk has been rocked by the departure of the award-winning team behind the acclaimed Off the Ball sports show in a row over the programme’s start time.

The presenters of Newstalk’s award-winning 'Off the Ball' sports show have resigned, the radio station confirmed today.

A Kildare man has been jailed for four years for hiding €30,000 for a gang of tiger kidnappers.

A Dublin man who was renting an apartment for the sole purpose of preparing heroin for sale has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after he also was caught with a loaded semiautomatic pistol in a nightclub.

THE performance of Beef Or Salmon, on his first outing over flights for a very long time, didn't exactly excite in the Racing Post In Ireland Hurdle at Fairyhouse yesterday.

PAT HUGHES could leave a horrendous couple of months behind by saddling Point Barrow to land a typically wide open Powers' Whiskey Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

NUMBERSIXVALVERDE is the choice to land a wide open 27-runner Powers' Gold Label Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

Two men have escaped with several thousand euros in cash following a raid on a betting shop in Dublin this morning.

A Dublin man has been jailed for 10 years for the manslaughter of 19 year-old Brian Mulvaney, who was beaten to death in a south Dublin suburb in March 2000.