Google should be "held to account" over alleged unlawful collection of personal data, the leader of a campaign group launching a mass legal action against the tech giant in the UK has said.

It was on board Australia he claimed his first Derby winner and it was in the country of the same name on its grandest of racing days that Joseph O’Brien announced himself as a trainer to be admired and feared given his potential.

Joseph O'Brien bettered his father Aidan as Rekindling outpointed Johannes Vermeer to lead home an Irish clean sweep of the Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington.

Well, we know what we're doing for the new few weekends.

Lloyd’s of London expects net losses of $4.5bn (€3.8bn) from hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which analysts said would eat into the insurer’s capital and hit its profitability.

Connacht lacked so much ‘attitude and commitment’ according to coach Kieran Keane who bristled with frustration as his side lost for the third time in four PRO14 games on Saturday.

A man who claimed thousands of pounds in disability benefits despite climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, winning a triathlon and competing at the Phoenix Winter Games has been convicted of fraud, prosecutors said.

A father has died after falling "a considerable distance" while walking with his daughter on a Welsh mountain.

Player management was the name of the game when Rassie Erasmus yesterday ann-ounced his Munster squad for tonight’s (7.35pm) Guinness Pro 12 clash with Glasgow Warriors at Musgrave Park.

Rassie Erasmus yesterday insisted a six month extension of Jaco Taute’s contract has still not been agreed between Munster, the IRFU and Western Province. The deal must be struck by midnight on Saturday, but it looks a near certainty to be completed.

Buttevant director Billy O’Brien talks to Caroline Delaney about his film I am Not a Serial Killer

Ulster struggled to defeat a weakened Scarlets side at the Kingspan Stadium last night.

There is a new world record for the fastest sail around Ireland.

Pro-Brexit campaigners have offered a €66m prize to any voter who can correctly predict every result of the European football championships in a novel bid to engage people with the debate.

A dummy bomb which sparked the evacuation of thousands of football fans from Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground was recorded as having been removed by the security firm which left it there, the club’s executive vice-chairman said.

A security company said to have accidentally left a dummy bomb at Old Trafford that triggered an evacuation is facing calls for a full inquiry.

Two kittens could have permanent breathing difficulties after they were coloured in with marker pens, a cat rescue centre has said.

USA: A Pennsylvania couple is struggling to sell a house used as the home of psychotic killer Buffalo Bill in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs.

The second day of the Web Summit may not have had an announcement to rival that of the first when Irish entrepreneur Oisín Hanrahan’s start-up, Handy landed a $50m investment but it had plenty to keep tech heads and investors busy nonetheless.

Scarlets 25 Munster 22: Anthony Foley may find himself scratching his head over this one for some time to come after Munster gave up a 10-point lead to lose a game they did not trail in until the final second.

Pool D: Wales v Fiji

I have only ever been able to orgasm with a vibrator. 

Carli Lloyd enjoyed the game of her life as the United States beat Japan 5-2 to win the Women’s World Cup.

In 1999s Star Wars The Phantom Menace, young Jake Lloyd plays Anikan Skywalker. And he was pretty good at pod racing...

Magic Moment: For a very literal answer, I would look to a spellbinding sequence from Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, a show by Australia’s Back to Back Theatre company that was one of several from Down Under during the Dublin Theatre Festival.

The magic that brings to life the exhibits at New York’s Museum of Natural History is running out as Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) opens, forcing Larry (Ben Stiller) to travel to London in order to rejuvenate the ancient Egyptian enchantment.

Harry and Lloyd go on a cross country trip to find a long-lost daughter and maybe an equally important kidney.

For jazz legend Charles Lloyd, playing live is a spiritual and uplifting experience, says Alan O’Riordan

Waterford Regional Hospital has apologised to the parents of a four-year-old boy who suffered brain injuries at birth.

Britain will become the first Western government to issue an offshore bond in China’s renminbi currency, finance minister George Osborne said yesterday, deepening efforts to build financial links with the world’s No. 2 economy.

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No matter what else the television sports year offers up, we think we saw its most delightful touch last Saturday night.

'Coronation Street' star Krissi Bohn will leave the soap this summer.