AS night follows day, this is the time of year that gnawing worries about the cost of children going back to school invariably spoil the summer holidays, such as they are, of cash-strapped parents. 

Cork City 0 Shamrock Rovers 0: There was only one winner from this battle at Turner’s Cross and it wasn’t Cork City or Shamrock Rovers.

Bohemians 1 Cork City 1: An away point at Dalymount Park is not to be sniffed at this season but, with rampant Dundalk extending their lead at the top of the table, Cork City will have reason to rue their inability to hold onto an early lead against Bohemians.

1. Stephen Cluxton is Dublin’s most important player

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Cork City 1 St Patrick’s Athletic 0

Áilín Quinlan talks to filmmaker Ken O’Sullivan about a new four-part series, Ireland’s Ocean, which starts Sunday, June 22 at 6.30pm on RTÉ One.

Cork and Waterford to renew rivalry as Munster championship gets underway tomorrow.

Cork dual star Eoin Cadogan will miss the Rebels’ Munster SHC opener against Waterford on Sunday, according to manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy.

Kerry and Cork will face off in the latest instalment of an epic rivalry this Sunday at Austin Stack Park with the home side in need of a win to have any chance of progressing to the league semi-finals.

Cork City 3 Shamrock Rovers 0

More than one in 10 drivers and passengers killed on Irish roads were not wearing a seatbelt, it has emerged.

A convicted killer and registered sex offender whose sexual assault of his former partner was likened to "a rape with a machete" has been jailed for 13 years.

A splendidly taken try by full-back Brendan Deady made all the difference for Bruff at Thomond Park last night.

Internationally renowned cancer research pioneer Professor Gerry O’Sullivan has died.

A Dublin man was jailed for seven and a half years by the Special Criminal Court today for having five revolvers and 64 rounds of ammunition at an apartments complex in the south Dublin area last January.

World Number One Ronnie O'Sullivan will take on Stephen Maguire in the semi-finals of the Masters at Wembley this afternoon.

The Real IRA tried to invent a new explosive device using propane gas and petrol and tested it at a remote area on Mount Leinster in Co Carlow, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Today’s designated "down day" for the Ireland squad began with a work-out, with forwards coach Niall O’Donovan bringing his troops to the Melbourne Girls College where the basketball arena imitated the conditions in which Ireland will play France in Sunday’s quarter-final at the Telstra Stadium.

SPORT is a cruel business. Once again last Saturday we saw the dreams of a talented young sportsman shattered with an innocuous tackle. The forthcoming World Cup was the perfect stage for the talents of Geordan Murphy.

AN GHAELTACHT, East Kerry, West Kerry, Mid Kerry and last year’s beaten finalists Kilcummin are all safely through to the quarter finals of the AIB Kerry SFC.

Ronnie O’ Sullivan said he played the best snooker of his life to beat Mark Williams 9-6 and reach a UK Championship final showdown against Ireland’s Ken Doherty in York.