House of Cards makes a welcome return on Netflix, and Frank looks just as nasty as ever.

We know funds are scarce, but are things really that bad at the FAI?

Has anyone really thought Trap's departure through properly?

It may have been set up, but it's still funny.

Now going by the name 'Second Captains', the lads have signed on to do a weekly podcast with the Irish Times.

With tomorrow night’s game already being billed as Ireland versus Zlatan Ibrahimović, we have decided to pit him against our nation and see who comes out on top.

A Brazilian family have found their pet tortoise 30 years after she went missing.

Sun-soaked Sopot saw Wags and fans hit the sand in search of the elusive Irish tan yesterday.

WE’RE WATCHING Titanic at home.

GIOVANNI Trapattoni is looking forward to a Christmas day dinner at the family home outside Milan but when asked what would be on the menu, the result was one of those classic ‘lost in translation’ moments with the Ireland manager.

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GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI was ready to head for the exit door and the airport when a local journalist got to his feet at the post match press conference on Saturday night and unveiled a speech more at home in yesterday’s Macedonian elections.

A number of events are taking place in Galway today to remember murdered Swiss student Manuela Riedo on the third anniversary of her death.

THE parents of murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo will be in Galway today to outline the plans for the foundation set up in her memory.

THE mother of murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo cried as she described the breakdown of relations with the founder of a charity set up in memory of her only child.

THE organiser of a fundraiser for murdered Swiss student Manuela Riedo has given an assurance that he has “at all times had approval” from her parents for the concert.

THE parents of a Swiss student murdered just days after she arrived in Galway hope to travel to the city for a charity night in her memory.

GERALD BARRY, the 29-year-old Galway city man who is serving life for the murder of Swiss student Manuela Riedo, was given two concurrent life sentences yesterday for the double rape of a French student in August 2007 – committed just seven weeks before he murdered Ms Riedo in October 2007.

If previous convictions were taken into account and Barry denied bail, Manuela might still be alive, writes Jennifer Hough.

Gerald Barry, the 29-year-old Galway city man who is serving life for the murder of Swiss student Manuela Riedo, was given two concurrent life sentences today for the double rape of a French student in August 2007, committed just weeks before he murdered Ms Riedo.

THE Galway man who murdered Swiss student Manuela Riedo has pleaded guilty to raping a French tourist.

The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 has now pleaded guilty to raping a French woman in 2007.

A jury at the inquest into the death of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has recommended that no student should ever walk the line between Ceannt Station and Renmore in Galway city alone.

A CANDLE flame flickered in front of framed photographs of murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo as her parents launched a new foundation for rape and sexual assault victims in Dublin yesterday.

TWO mothers who lost sons in savage attacks have called for changes in the way the law deals with violent offenders.

A Galway man has been jailed for life for the murder of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007.

The jury at the trial of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 has been sent home for the night.

A GALWAY man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that her death was “an accident”.

A Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that her death was “an accident”.

THE man accused of murdering Swiss student Manuela Riedo in October 2007 sold Ms Riedo’s mobile phone to his sister’s boyfriend nine days after the killing, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that the DNA of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 was found inside a condom that had been found at the scene of her death.

THE trial of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has heard that calls made from his mobile phone bounced off a mast in the Lough Atalia area, where her body was found, on the night of her murder.

The trial of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has heard that calls made from his mobile phone bounced off a mast in the Lough Atalia area on the night of her alleged murder.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard that Swiss teenager Manuelo Riedo died from strangulation.

THE trial of a man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in Galway in 2007 has heard that his DNA was found in a used condom near her body.

The parents of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo have visited the scene where their daughter was killed in Galway last year.

“WE WILL look up to the sky and remember her and somehow, by doing that, it will continue the way it was.”

STUDENT leaders and public representatives in Galway are to begin a campaign to make safe the isolated walkway where Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo was murdered.

PREPARATIONS are being made for the return of the remains of murdered Swiss language student Manuela Riedo to her home country.

A Swiss student found murdered in inner-city scrubland was suffocated to death, it was revealed today.

A judge in Germany has ordered a Satanic couple who committed murder to be sent to a psychiatric hospital indefinitely.