Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon will be out for "up to 12 weeks" with a knee injury, boss Brendan Rodgers has revealed.

Whoever organised the accommodation arrangements for the British & Irish Lions last week at Carton House must have had a chuckle when they made Johnny Sexton and Dan Biggar room-mates.

Brian Canty travelled last weekend’s Tour de Yorkshire with Aqua Blue Sport, Ireland’s first ever pro cycling team. With an estimated 2.2m people watching the three days, brand exposure almost ranked up there with glory

US firefighter Greg MacCurtain will run the Cork City Marathon with his severely ill daughter, writes Áilín Quinlan

Neil Jenkins has assured Joe Schmidt and his Irish team there will be no more dithering from Leigh Halfpenny if he gets the chance to shoot for goal against them next week in the Six Nations battle at the Principality Stadium.

Eoghan O’Connell is set to make a return to first-team action for Celtic tonight as they bid to keep their European hopes alive in Germany.

Is it the birth of a new era for preventing genetic disorders or a case of scientists meddling too far, asks Caroline O’Doherty

Leigh Bagnall was delighted when she was able to walk into town and go shopping. It was the first thing she did after recovering from her historic lung transplant operation.

Tim Roth was one of the old stalwarts Quentin Tarantino teamed up with for his upcoming western, The Hateful Eight, writes Helen Barlow

The award-winning Glucksman Gallery will be transformed this weekend as leading Irish designers descend on the Cork city for a weekend of art, craft and design.

Warren Gatland has defended his decision to play Leigh Halfpenny in Wales’ final World Cup warm-up game against Italy.

Wales are playing an anxious waiting game before knowing the full extent of injuries suffered by Rhys Webb and Leigh Halfpenny during their final World Cup warm-up game against Millennium Stadium visitors Italy.

Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths and Dundee ‘keeper Scott Bain have been called up to the Scotland squad for their Euro 2016 qualifier against Ireland at the Aviva Stadium on June 13.

The death of man in his 40s — whose body was found in Tralee, Co Kerry, yesterday — is not being treated as suspicious.

The season’s leading rider, Mark Walsh, started the New Year in great style when completing a fine treble on Missyspet, Noble Emperor and Sword Fish in Fairyhouse yesterday.

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Mike Leigh tells Alan O’Riordan about finally getting his film on JMW Turner to the big screen

Big Break atoned for an odds-on reverse in last year’s Coolmore Stud Home Of Champions Concorde Stakes when making no mistake this time in the Group Three event at Tipperary yesterday.

John Collins insists he can see progress at Celtic as manager Ronny Deila finds himself under continuing scrutiny ahead of the League Cup third-round clash with Hearts at Parkhead on Wednesday night.

A Belfast pub has posted a tongue-in-cheek response to a peeved patron who accused their bouncers of selling cocaine.

Team news for the Second Round of the Capital One Cup.

Grandma Dotty, dashingly ridden by Fran Berry, turned over hot-pot Clondaw Warrior in the Sean Cleary Memorial Handicap in Roscommon last night.

Einsteins Folly gave trainer Jim Bolger back-to-back wins in the listed Lenabane Stakes in Roscommon last night when, produced between horses inside the final furlong by Kevin Manning, he possessed too much pace for three-year-old Belisarius and Ebeyina.

The Telegraph newspaper recently described the World Irish Dancing Championships in London as "hell". Is this really how our national tradition is viewed abroad? Áilín Quinlan meets the 13-year-old world champion — and her family — in Belfast to talk wigs and crystal-encrusted €2,500 costumes.

Nicole Kidman’s Grace Kelly biopic has been met with a volley of damning reviews after it opened the Cannes Film Festival.

WE have parked opposite the old Post Office, marked on the OS map. Before setting off, we should certainly retrace our steps to the Blackwater Bridge — we will be re-crossing it on our return, but viewing it before we start will make us aware, when we see the Blackwater River upstream, of how romantic and wild it is in this gorge.

Aidan O’Brien plans to follow a tried and tested route with Magician after the dual Group One winner left it late to claim the High Chaparral European Breeders Fund Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh.

In-form trainer Dermot Weld described Tested as "a group-class filly" after the daughter of Selkirk justified 4/11 favouritism in the Ladies Day June 21st Fillies Race in Gowran Park yesterday.

Kris Commons will not put himself under pressure to repeat the goalscoring exploits that helped him become PFA Scotland player of the year.

Ken Loach and Mike Leigh will go head-to-head at the Cannes Film Festival.

Henry de Bromhead’s Aupcharlie got back on track at Clonmel yesterday when landing the Suir Valley Chase.

ENTERPRISING Cork dad Niall McCarthy has turned an idea — customising children’s furniture with their own artwork — into a successful business.

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An exhibitions manager at the Natural History Museum who had to leave her job when she developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after she was trapped on a bus has won £522,379 damages.

Wales’ long wait to claim the major southern hemisphere scalp they crave continues – but only after an heroic display in a ferocious Test match of brutal intensity at the Millennium Stadium.

Vivien Leigh’s archive — including letters sent to husband Laurence Olivier and diaries written until just before the Gone With The Wind star’s death — have been acquired by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum&.

Hibernian manager Pat Fenlon feels new striker James Collins is the old-fashioned centre-forward his team have been missing.

Jonathan Sexton would have loved the chance to boot the Lions into the history books as the first series winners in 16 years, but despite being denied the opportunity there was nothing but sympathy for the man who was instead handed the kicking duties.

Jonathan Sexton pulled no punches yesterday after the British and Irish Lions were agonisingly denied Test series glory against Australia.

Penalty-taking decided the first Test in favour of the British & Irish Lions and the art of bisecting the posts will again be massively influential in Saturday’s second encounter with Australia, believes Lions legend Neil Jenkins.