“I was a ball boy 73 years ago and I cannot wait to be a ball gentleman again.”

Nick Robson Enable could face a couple of Royal Ascot winners as she makes her eagerly-awaited return to action in Saturday’s Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.

Six games into his reign as Ireland U21 manager and Stephen Kenny believes his side are gearing up well to reach a first-ever major tournament.

A man who defrauded six customers out of almost €60,000 by taking payments for minibuses which he never handed over to them has been sentenced to three and half years.

Newcastle 1 Man United 0: The tributes to Liam Miller were both impeccable and tragically poignant, but sadly for Manchester United, they were unable to fashion a display or an outcome fully fitting of a player taken far too soon.

A British woman whose partner is stranded on a hurricane-hit Caribbean island said he carries a knife for protection as "everyone's turned feral".

A mother of nine and her boyfriend have been found guilty of causing the death of her baby son, who suffered 28 fractures during his short life.

A five-month-old baby died after suffering a "catastrophic" injury at the hands of his mother or her boyfriend, a jury has been told.

Suzanne Harrington takes up vaping after being off cigarettes for over a decade but has to get to grips with the new etiquette that comes with it

Once upon a time, Sierra was at the top of the adventure game pile - close to the masters at LucasArts and also much more willing to mix in mature content in their titles.

Cillian Murphy has given Harry Styles the seal of approval for his debut movie role.

The gruesome final chapter in the life of a con-woman who left a trail of fraud across three continents unfolded at a coroner’s inquest in Newcastle West, Co Limerick, yesterday.

HAVING been a young child, like many others, who loved rooting though my own mother’s tin of hundreds of different mismatched buttons, I dived straight into Lynn Knight’s latest book The Button Box.

All roads led to Conna yesterday for the annual Tallow point-to-point meeting and Mulcahys Hill lit up the meeting by posting a scintillating frontrunning performance for the in-form Martin Hassett stable to claim victory in the four-year-old maiden.

Ulster 17 Dragons 15: A Paddy Jackson penalty two minutes from the end of the game catapulted Ulster to the top of the Guinness PRO12.

Michelle Knight is famous for surviving 4,000 days of rape and torture. But that doesn’t pay the rent or buy back her life, writes Abigail Jones.

A gang of paedophiles who raped babies, toddlers and pre-school children and streamed the abuse over the internet to other sex abusers have been branded “beyond human instinct and evil” by a judge in the UK.

Members of a British paedophile ring who attacked babies and toddlers and streamed the abuse online have been sentenced to a total of 78 years in prison today.

Though there were plenty of contenders, including Sam Bennett and Eddie Dunbar, Dingle woman Josie Knight was perhaps the breakthrough Irish cyclist of 2014.

A judge has ruled that music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight should stand trial for murder despite the fact that a key witness – one of the men he is accused of running over – refused to identify him in court.

Kerry beat the Dublin District Schoolboy League (DDSL) 1-0 in yesterday’s SFAI Kennedy Cup final at the University of Limerick.

AN irreplaceable part of Ireland’s patrimony is to be auctioned off in London, though last Saturday President Michael D Higgins presided at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Heritage Council, writes Gerard Howlin.

USA: Screen and TV star, diva and beloved Muppet Miss Piggy has been recognised for her contributions to society with a feminist award at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Cabinteely 0 Shamrock Rovers 2: Quick-fire second-half goals from Sean O’Connor and Brandon Miele eased Shamrock Rovers into the quarter-finals of the EA Sports Cup.

UCD 0 Cabinteely 1

It was a baptism of fire for the Irish Women’s 4k Team Pursuit squad in their debut at the UCI World Track Cycling Championships in Paris yesterday as they finished last of 16 teams in qualifying.

Death Row Records founder Suge Knight has been taken to a hospital complaining of chest pains after he appeared in court in a murder case.

Former hip-hop music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight is to appear in court today after he was charged with murder and attempted murder after he struck two men with his pick-up truck.

<B>Des O’Sullivan </b>looks forward to an exhibition that will celebrate the Irish as artists, collectors, and patrons.

Cillian Murphy could be set to star in a movie about the infamous Birmingham pub bombings that resulted in the wrongful convictions of six Irishmen.

Sean Downey will replace the injured Martyn Irvine in Ireland’s Men’s Team Pursuit in the second round of the UCI Track World Cup in London this weekend.

Dungarvan jockey Tom Queally has been banned from driving for 22 months after claiming he was sleepwalking while drink-driving.

A UK fraudster who allegedly tried to evade justice by claiming to be a comatose quadraplegic has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after conning his frail neighbour out of more than £40,000.

Derek O’Connor dominated yesterday’s Bruff point-to-point fixture at Rathcannon, the first Munster meeting of the season incidentally, by partnering three winners.

USA: Chewbacca was forced to step in to break up a fight between Mr Incredible and Batgirl-

One of the three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade said she has been able to forgive her kidnapper and find peace in her life.

St. Patrick’s Athletic 0 Athlone Town 2

Athlone Town 0 Dundalk 3