A vanity case belonging to the fiancee of Michael Collins is to go under the auction hammer next month.

Maud-Annie Foley’s late point secured a draw for Westmeath against Cavan in the Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 2 final at sun-splashed Parnell Park.

Limerick’s former WBO World middleweight champion Andy Lee returned to the ring with an unanimous decision victory over KeAndrae Leatherwood at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.

Inherent in Andy Lee’s make-up is a remarkable and understated ability to bounce back from adversity.

In his epic new tome that spans 70 years, John Boyne examines growing up gay in Ireland and the associated trials and tribulations. He talks to Sue Leonard

Isabel Conway’s new year resolution? To learn Spanish. So she took herself off to Salamanca to do just that.

Fionnuala McCormack cruised to a facile win at the Spar Great Ireland Run in Dublin yesterday, the 31-year-old taking her first victory in the 10km race in 33:30 ahead of Deirdre Byrne and Maria McCambridge.

Pension details released by the military archives shows women played a wider role in the Rising than previously thought, says Sinead McCoole

France captain Hugo Lloris insists initial doubts over the sense of playing tonight’s friendly against England were quickly replaced by a desire for a “great moment of solidarity”.

The story behind the suffragette movie comes into the spotlight in a new movie starring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep

Kelly Mallon’s goal midway through the second half was key in helping Armagh to advance to the quarter-finals of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies SFC as they prevailed against a game Westmeath outfit at Kingspan Breffni Park this evening.

A harp given by WB Yeats to Maud Gonne as a gift has sold for €37,000 at auction.

The village of Castleconnell, Co Limerick gave Andy Lee, newly-crowned WBO Middleweight champion a homecoming reception to remember last night.

It was the worst of omens for the gleaming new ship embarking on its maiden voyage.

As the World Cup gets into full swing, Robert Hume throws a spotlight on the Irishman who in 1890 invented the penalty kick — soccer’s most famous rule

A four-part series on the wildlife at Killarney National Park airs on TV3 tomorrow night at 8pm. It will include rare action footage of some of the wildlife.

A Columban priest who survived kidnapping in the Philippines was one of over 200 returned missionaries honoured at a ceremony in Dublin yesterday.

A major character is on the way out this season. Here are the odds on some fan favourites.

It’s a case of “Maud gone” for this stowaway kitten whose remarkable survival story has come to a purrfect ending.

It could have been a cat-astrophe but luckily, it’s come to a purrfect end.

It was apt that Killarney National Park should look its most blooming yesterday for an occasion to celebrate the life of someone whose family’s generosity led to its creation.

Now I can relax and enjoy my wedding in a month.

This B&B could now be a spacious home. Tommy Barker reports

I AM a 30-year-old Maltese looking for information regarding my Irish ancestors who immigrated to Malta towards the end of the 1800s.

A French women whose husband and daughter are missing on the sunken Sea Diamond cruise ship, angrily rejected claims by Greece’s merchant marine minister that she delayed declaring their disappearance – and may even have lied about their presence on the vessel.

The captain of a cruise ship that sank in the Aegean Sea has been charged with negligence.

A Greek prosecutor today pressed negligence charges against the captain and five officers of a cruise ship that sank off an Aegean Sea island, state television reported.

Navy divers are searching the sunken wreckage of a cruise ship for the bodies of a Frenchman and his daughter, missing after the vessel foundered on a volcanic reef in Greece.

An episodic treat from the long-lost Tarantino; so welcome back!

Venus and Serena Williams will be the first sisters to contest the US Open final.