Did we really think he was snookered? Turns out Joe Brolly didn’t even have to play this one off two cushions.

The retirement of Dubliner Willie Walsh from the IAG airline conglomerate he created will likely have little effect on the growth plans at Aer Lingus any time soon.

Connacht's Heineken Champions Cup challenge hangs by the thinnest of threads after a convincing four-try defeat to Gloucester at Kingsholm on Sunday afternoon.

Irish show jumpers will line out on both sides of the Atlantic this week as the 2019/2020 FEI World Cup series gathers momentum.

At the start of the 10th and final episode of Confronting: OJ Simpson, a series which has been downloaded over five million times since launching in June, host Kim Goldman is in tears, talking to her father about how strong he was through the murder of her brother, his son,Ron Goldman.

With the official team season now done for 2019, attention turns to the individual jumping circuit with the first European round of the FEI World Cup series taking place in Norway at Oslo Horse Show this weekend.

This wasn’t an easy assignment for Ciara Mageean, for reasons that run far deeper than performance alone. Either way, it was one she passed with flying colours here at the World Championships in Doha.

In a video message posted on Father’s Day, OJ has insisted he never had any ‘romantic or sexual interest’ in Kris Jenner.

Rory McIlroy moved into a three-way tie for the lead after a sparkling third round at the RBC Canadian Open.

While off-field developments haven’t been positive for Waterford this week, the Blues faithful had something to cheer at the RSC.

Former champion Rory McIlroy made it two wins out of two with a 3&2 victory over South Africa’s Justin Harding on day two of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play last night.

Rory McIlroy maintained his impressive form in the countdown to the Masters with a second straight victory in the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play but could yet miss out on an eagerly-anticipated showdown with Tiger Woods.

The airline was due to take charge of its first 737 Max jet next month

Jessica Simpson has given birth to her third child with husband Eric Johnson.

Any finding by the Supreme Court that slopping out amounts to inhuman and degrading treatment would have “huge” consequences for the State and the Mountjoy prison regime, the State has said.

Shares in UK regional airline Flybe soared over 33% after Aer Lingus-owner IAG reportedly joined the race to buy the business.

Ryanair has been named as a possible significant beneficiary — though an unlikely outright buyer — from an expected sale of British regional airline Flybe.

When Thomas Bjorn arrived at Le Golf National at the start of last week, Europe’s captain could not have dreamed he would be reflecting on a landslide victory, nor imagined what a pain in the backside it could become.

Lady Caroline Lamb would have loved social media. She would have been a highly-paid fashion influencer, offering tips like “spray a fine mist of water on your gauzy gown, before you go out for the night, because the mist will make it cling to your body in a way that’s to die for”.

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Derby are in the hunt for their sixth manager in three years following Gary Rowett's departure to Stoke.

Starting with the largest Sunday lead ever at The Players Championship was harder than Webb Simpson imagined.

Woods was back to his best on Saturday as he rose from tied 68th into the top 10 by early afternoon.

Kevin Markham looks at the clubs celebrating anniversaries in 2018.

Reporting restrictions surrounding the rape trial of two Ireland rugby internationals have been lifted.

Labour senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has apologised for a tweet about the Ulster rape trial.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) first began to conduct doping tests on athletes at the 1968 Mexico Olympics.

“You don’t win nations cups without jumping clear rounds and we didn’t jump enough of them,” said Michael Blake after he had seen the Irish show jumping team he managed fall short of repeating last year’s success in Ocala, Florida on Sunday evening.

Wasps 26 - Ulster 7: Wasps ended their European Champions Cup group campaign on a winning note with a convincing 26-7 victory over Ulster at the Ricoh Arena.

Potential Russian mafia funding links with Donald Trump’s five-star Doonbeg golf resort in Co Clare have been discussed behind closed doors at a US intelligence committee hearing.

The publication of a controversial dossier about President Donald Trump's alleged links with Russia, authored by a former MI6 spy, has already resulted in a death, it has been claimed.

A senior US politician has released a transcript from an interview with the co-founder of the firm that commissioned a dossier of allegations about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia.

Chelsea  2 Bournemouth 1:  Alvaro Morata’s stoppage-time strike sent Chelsea into the Carabao Cup semi-finals with a 2-1 defeat of Bournemouth.

The refusal may have implications for some of an estimated 1,200 other slopping out cases in the pipeline.

Kevin Markham picks the courses threatening to make the world top 100.

An American doctor wept in court as he spoke of his oath to do no harm in a case where he admitted that his dangerous driving caused the death of a woman visiting Cork to see her first grandchild.

Leicester were unable to end their home hoodoo against West Brom at the King Power Stadium.

A High Court judge will rule later on liability for what the State has agreed will be "substantial" costs, estimated at more than €1m, of a former prisoner's case over slopping out.

OJ Simpson will live in Florida after he is released on parole from a Nevada prison where he has been held for the past nine years.

Simpson's release is expected after nine years behind bars for his 2008 armed robbery and kidnapping convictions.

The State is bracing itself for the outcomes of around 880 court cases on “slopping out” in prisons after it lost a landmark action in the High Court.

The High Court has ruled that a prisoner who "slopped out" in Mountjoy Prison had his rights to privacy breached.

Could a Cardiff-based wafer company be the next big thing for technology investors?

Legendary explorer and climber Simon Yates will be talking about his experiences during his Cork tour, writes Conor Kane