Cricket Ireland chose John Bracewell as the new head coach “because he gets us and he gets Test cricket’, according to high performance director Richard Holdsworth.

Ed Joyce says a “new voice” may help freshen up the Irish cricket team following Phil Simmons’ appointment as head coach of the West Indies. 

The curtains fell on the Oscars, but Hollywood was not done celebrating its biggest night as the film industry took Academy Award winners and their statuettes out for an extended spin through glamorous after-parties.

It was 20 years ago tomorrow, mon dieu, says Liam Mackey.

Cricket World Cup: Coach Phil Simmons is confident Ireland can qualify for the knockout stages of the World Cup next month.

Eric Cantona was relaxed and even ate McDonald’s in the moments after he received a two-week prison sentence for his kung fu-style attack on a Crystal Palace fan, according Manchester United’s former head of security.

A US woman has been convicted of punching a 70-year-old Walmart cashier during a dispute over a receipt on Christmas Eve.

CRICKET Ireland (CI) have outlined an ambitious plan to become a Test-playing nation by 2020, in an attempt to prevent their top players declaring for England.

CRICKET IRELAND chief executive Warren Deutrom admits the board are putting in place contingency plans should coach Phil Simmons quit before the end of the year.

Ireland coach Phil Simmons has added his voice to the growing condemnation of the International Cricket Council’s “despicable” decision to exclude associate nations from the 2015 World Cup.

Rapper DMX has been arrested on suspicion of violating probation by using drugs, authorities in the US said.

IRELAND coach Phil Simmons has backed teenagers George Dockrell and Paul Stirling to be the backbone of the Irish team for years to come after their successful debuts at the ICC World Twenty20.

IRELAND coach Phil Simmons admits he would be “very disappointed” if his team do not make the quarter-finals of the World Twenty20.

PHIL SIMMONS will be looking for an Ireland victory over Scotland today in the European Championship decider at Clontarf to banish memories of the lowest point of his 15 months as national coach.

Wicketkeeper Niall O’Brien has called on the Irish Cricket Union to be patient with newly-appointed coach Phil Simmons after Ireland’s latest loss.

Rapper DMX was slapped with an extra 10 days behind bars by a New York judge who said he had not shown respect for the court.

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