Public demand for canned rather than fresh fish during the Covid-19 crisis and restrictions on Irish seafood exports are contributing to a looming storm in the fishing sector, an Irish industry leader has warned.

A father whose three sons have cystic fibrosis has spoken about how, over the years, his family has observed the kinds of measures now widespread in the general population.

Chris Farrell returns to the Munster team as Johann van Graan makes five changes ahead of Saturday's Guinness PRO14 match against Scarlets at Thomond Park (5pm).

Michael Bohane beat Paul O’Reilly in the feature score of the official launch of the Newcastle club on the Dublin-Kildare border on Saturday.

Options, options, options. For all the pieties to be heard after NHL games, managers are keeping an eye out all the time for options.

Dublin defender Chris Crummey doesn’t sense there is an appetite for the introduction of black card to hurling.

CIT have made a swift and comfortable return to top-level colleges football, Conor Kelleher’s side emphatic winners of this one-sided Trench Cup final.

His opposing manager, Pádraic Joyce, was left to rue Galway's missed chances.

GIVEN that the issue is largely to do with the men in the middle and how they apply — or not — the rules of the game, let’s start with a former All-Ireland referee.

For the second year in a row, it ended in a row.

Tom Ahern is making the leaps and bounds you might expect from a long-striding 6ft 9ins lock but the Munster second row’s progress through Ireland’s age-grade ranks is just as impressive as his performance levels.

Joey Carbery makes his first start of the season at out-half.

Jack O’Donoughe’s first-half try and a perfect kicking performance from JJ Hanrahan gave Munster the honours in this feisty inter-pro, which saw them stretch their lead at the top of the PRO14 Conference B standings.

Youth and experience proved to be a winning combination as they gradually pulled away to see off their neighbours Kerry

Mayo defender Eoin O’Donoghue is confident county colleague and close pal Matthew Ruane isn’t interested in a switch to Aussie Rules.

The CEO of the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation has warned that if there is no trade deal between the UK and the EU by the end of 2020 then there will be a hard Brexit which will be “an unmitigated disaster” for the Irish fishing industry.

They also made 2019 a year to forget for rivals Dr Crokes who were losing their fourth major final of the year.

Having missed most of last season through injury, it is starting to look like Jack O’Donoghue has the spring back in his step.

Jack O’Donoghue’s injury-hit 2018-19 season cost the back-rower a piece of Munster history but the 25-year-old could not be more happy for the team-mate who became the province’s youngest player to reach 100 caps instead.

There’s an old saying that a pessimist complains about the wind, an optimist expects it to change but a realist will adjust the sails to suit the conditions.

Captain Peter O’Mahony claimed a crucial lone try as Munster overcame Saracens 10-3 in a scrappy Heineken Champions Cup contest at a weather-beaten Thomond Park.

On Saturday, December 21, 20c from every newspaper sold will be donated to SVP.

The Script have announced they will perform an open-air summer show at Irish Independent Park in Cork next summer as part of their huge European Sunsets and Full Moons tour.

Nothing will ease the pain of a year in which two of The Script lost parents, but the band are still glad to have music as a constant in their lives, writes Ed Power

Jack O’Donoghue, the only forward to be retained from the victory over the Ospreys, captains the side for the second time in his career.

St Brendan’s upset the odds when they defeated 2015 finalists Killarney Legion in the first of this year’s Garvey’s Kerry SFC quarter-finals at Austin Stack Park.

A man has been jailed for punching a garda sergeant in the head when he was being served with a barring order secured against him by his mother.

Football legend Larry Tompkins spent two days in a coma as a 20-year-old after a foul blow in a championship game in Kildare with his home club, Eadestown.

The alt-pop trio will bring their Sunsets and Full Moons arena tour to the 3Arena in Dublin on March 6 and 7.

Munster back row Jack O’Donoghue knows there will be a tougher test at altitude next week in Bloemfontein but insists they also have their work cut out to deal with the Southern Kings in Port Elizabeth today.

More than 3,000 jobs in the Irish fishing industry could be on the line within months of a no deal Brexit, it has been warned.

One of Ireland's biggest fisheries bosses has warned that a 'no deal' Brexit will lead to "conflict and chaos at sea."

A new awareness campaign regarding the most common cancer suffered by Irish men aims to remove the stigma surrounding the disease and encourages those at risk to get themselves checked out.

“The James O’Donoghue of three and four years ago would just turn around and kick that ball over the bar with his left foot. He’s not playing with the confidence you’d expect. If he was, he’d have chipped that ball over the bar,” said Oisín McConville, 22 minutes into Kerry’s Super 8 rout of Mayo.

Ireland’s European survival hopes hang tentatively in the balance after another nightmare first quarter cost them dear against England in Antwerp.

Ireland’s men produced a stunning late two-goal salvo to draw 3-3 with Scotland to just about keep their European Championships campaign alive in Antwerp.

Kerry footballer Stephen O’Brien has been cleared to play in the All-Ireland SFC final.