Gardaí have asked for the public's help to find missing man Virgil Vornicu.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists club-record signing Virgil van Dijk is not overweight and his fitness is not an issue.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has refused to be drawn on the future of Philippe Coutinho as speculation about another bid from Barcelona escalates.

Leslie Williams pays a visit to Michaels restaurant, 57 Deerpark Road, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin

Virgil may have coined the phrase ‘Love Conquers All’ but it took Carol Drinkwater to reinvent it as a creative metaphor, writes John Rainsford

Southampton manager Mauricio Pellegrino is considering thrusting Virgil van Dijk into his starting line-up in an attempt to shackle free-scoring Manchester United tomorrow.

Orla Barry’s farming background has found its way into her current exhibition at the Crawford, writes Colette Sheridan

Jurgen Klopp was satisfied by the performance of his much-travelled Liverpool side as they were held to a goalless stalemate at Southampton.

Ronny Deila has described Celtic’s Champions League play-off clash with Malmo tonight as a cup final.

Watford 0 Southampton 0: Southampton manager Ronald Koeman was keen to take the positives out of a scrappy stalemate that left both sides still searching for their first Barclays Premier League wins of the season.

It is by a distance the most frequent face-off of the new millennium, with 26 championship clashes already since Cork partied like it’s 1999. Kieran Shannon has crunched the numbers from all those games, observed the trends — and how both camps might try to buck them this evening.

Experts have poured scorn on an historian’s claim to have made the “literary discovery of the century” – uncovering the only portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime.

A historian has claimed to have discovered the only portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime.

Peter Fallon grew up on a farm near Kells, Co. Meath. He has published many collections of poetry including translations of Virgil. His latest book is Strong My Love. He is the founding editor of The Gallery Press, one of Ireland’s most distinguished publishers of poetry.

Amir Khan is confident he will show the world how much he has improved in his year out of the ring when he goes toe-to-toe with tricky southpaw Luis Collazo in Las Vegas on May 3.

Kris Commons will not put himself under pressure to repeat the goalscoring exploits that helped him become PFA Scotland player of the year.

St Johnstone 0 Celtic 1

Amir Khan is confident he is just weeks away from sealing a super-fight against Floyd Mayweather.

Amir Khan is confident he is just weeks away from sealing a super-fight against Floyd Mayweather.

The former chairman of the Labour Party has applied to join Fianna Fáil, the party has confirmed.

Amir Khan has added some clarity to his future by this morning announcing a new head trainer as well as his next opponent.

The Apartment

The father of a toddler who escaped virtually unscathed from a car which turned into “a ball of tinfoil” in a horror crash remains shocked his daughter was not killed.

Landfalls

LAST week, through the windows of a TransPennine train in the north of England, I saw sheep grazing the hill slopes.

MY youngest grandchild, Luca, aged three, visiting us from Bohemia in the Czech Republic, delights in feeding our adopted heron which stands as tall as himself.

The revival in good, old-fashioned Westerns continues with this conventional but entertaining shoot ‘em up yarn about the taking on of a town bully and the subsequent cleaning up of said town, the 'Appaloosa' of the title.

It used to take scholars weeks or even months to decipher ancient scrolls scorched in the eruption that buried Pompeii - if the texts weren’t blackened beyond recognition.