If it’s any consolation to Manchester United supporters these days, the biggest and most gloried franchise in the world’s other leading team sport is in an even greater state of dysfunction.

Why isn’t the name of trailblazing composer Ina Boyle better known? A Cork academic has published a book to help spread the word, writes Cathy Desmond

A fashion designer accused of murdering her French nanny was charming and manipulative with a violent streak, an ex-boyfriend revealed.

An ex-Boyzone pop star has told jurors of the alleged abuse he suffered at the hands of a "manipulative" ex-girlfriend accused of murdering her French nanny.

Local shops are every bit as important as parks, waterways, raised bogs and woodlands, writes Victoria White

A man with Asperger’s syndrome who assaulted his mother was sentenced to a four-month prison term after efforts to get him into a residential medical facility to deal with his issues were exhausted.

A man with Asperger’s syndrome was remanded in continuing custody yesterday in a case where he was accused of knocking his mother on the floor of a shop and kicking her in the head.

What do the inventors of the submarine and the ejector seat, the surgeon who carried out the world’s first C-section and the first All-Black rugby captain have in common? They’re all Irish. With the help of the Epic — the Irish Emigration Centre — we profile 20 of our most famous 

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has apologised to the Saudi government after an activist tried to carry out a citizen's arrest of one of the Gulf state's generals.

"It just seems so cruel and I think he would say the same."

Kevin Markham gives an A-Z to get you in the mood for the excitement of the Ryder Cup.

A 13-year-old black boy was fatally shot by a white Ohio police officer after pulling out a real-looking pellet gun during a confrontation, police said.

The immediate impact of sterling weakening will make it difficult for Irish exporters to compete in the short term

A man who wounded three people before storming into the central Kansas factory where he worked and shooting 15 others, killing three of them, had just been served a protection from abuse order that likely triggered the attack, a sheriff said.

The Tunisia beach massacre is linked to a previous terror attack in the country, British police believe.

Galway native Niamh Fahey made a little bit of history on Saturday as the defender became the first Irish woman to win the FA Cup at Wembley after Chelsea Ladies beat Notts County 1-0.

The son of a former Ryder Cup player is looking to ignite his own playing career with success in the Galvin Green PGA Assistants’ Championship, which starts tomorrow at Co Meath.

David Cameron has urged schools to recognise their role in the “fight against Islamist extremist terror” as police urgently try to trace three girls believed to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State.

Kelly O’Brien loves ice hockey and isn’t adverse to hanging out at pop-up ice skating rinks in December so she couldn’t resist trying out Red Bull extreme ice skating.

Interstellar *****

Scoil Maria Assumpta, Ballyphehane 4-11 Scoil Mhuire, Ballincollig 1-2

Tottenham 2 Brighton 0

Tottenham secured safe passage into the last eight of the Capital One Cup with an unconvincing 2-0 victory against out-of-form Brighton on largely uninspiring night at White Hart Lane.

Scottish Grand National-winning jockey Richie McGrath, together with former trainer Kate Walton, has been charged with passing on inside information.

Ronan Rafferty and Philip Walton made the halfway cut by the skin of their teeth in the Seniors Open Championship at Royal Porthcawl in south Wales yesterday as German superstar Bernhard Langer strengthened his grip on the title.

Ralph Waite, who played the kind-and-steady patriarch of a tight-knit rural Southern family on the TV series The Waltons, died on Thursday, his manager said. He was 85.

Tipperary 2-14 Kilkenny 2-11

The family of an Irishman who died on holiday in Tenerife 17 years ago hope to bring their son’s case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Six Spanish tourists were raped by a gang of armed, masked men in the Mexican resort of Acapulco, the latest chapter of violence that has tarnished the once-glamorous resort.

They never really retire, golfers.

A schoolboy who died on the rugby pitch in Northern Ireland should have been taken off earlier, his mother told his inquest.

With world attention focused on CERN and the detection of the Higgs boson, the contribution of Ireland’s Nobel physicist Ernest Walton, who was born in Waterford, should be noted.

The Institute of Physics is proposing that the new Liffey bridge should be named for Ireland’s only science Nobel Laureate, Ernest Walton (1903-1995).

An Irishman shot dead in Florida has been laid to rest in his native Templemore, with the parish priest stating that “a bright light had gone out” with the passing of Tom Walsh.

University of Limerick, boasting a number of senior county stars, proved too strong for IT Carlow in the second half of this Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final.

Everton 1 Manchester City 0

Swindon 2 Wigan 1

ON the day that Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp announced he could be out for up to six weeks following heart surgery, his team did little to lower his stress levels with a nervous backs-to-the-wall victory at Fulham that kept Spurs fans everywhere biting their nails, even if it ended 3-1.

David Creedon’s photographs of old country houses evoke the lives of their departed owners, writes Carl Dixon