Geneva will host the Republic of Ireland's Euro 2020 qualifier away to Switzerland.

The year is getting off to a familiar start for Irish riders based in the US as the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) commences in Wellington, Florida today and continues for three months.

Leroy Sane could make a dramatic return to action when Manchester City resume their Champions League campaign in Basel tonight.

Kathleen Dineen’s musical education combined the traditions of her Co Cork parents, the wide knowledge of the nuns in her school and the expertise of Aloys Fleischmann, writes Pet O’Connell.

What the papers say.

The Australian Open always throws up plenty of intrigue as the new tennis season kicks into gear.

The recent cold snap afflicting the US has lifted just in time for the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) which begins today at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Florida. 

Manchester United came from behind to beat CSKA Moscow and top their Champions League group as Jose Mourinho’s men took their unbeaten home run to a club record-equalling 40th match.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists their squandering of a three-goal lead in the 3-3 draw with Sevilla was a "misjudgement" by his players and he has no concerns about their character.

Liverpool showed their two faces again last night, throwing threw away a three-goal lead as Sevilla fought back to earn a dramatic 3-3 draw deep into stoppage time.

There was a split-second on Saturday evening, as Murphy took the ball on in the Stretford End box, when the season looked poised to crumble, and time itself stood still. Had the Toon buried that for 2-0, do we really think that United would have recovered, Pogba’s lively presence notwithstanding?

Northern Ireland face a huge battle to keep hold of in-demand manager Michael O’Neill after the Scottish Football Association yesterday made an official approach for the Armagh man.

Northern Ireland defender Corry Evans was forced to apologise last night for a foul-mouthed racist rant from his wife on Twitter over the Romanian referee’s controversial penalty award for Switzerland at Windsor Park on Thursday.

Northern Ireland 0 Switzerland 1

Northern Ireland experienced their own Thierry Henry moment in a World Cup play-off as Switzerland gained the upper hand in Belfast with a controversially-awarded penalty.

Man United 2 Benfica 0: Manchester United fans are starting to understand properly now what it means to support a Jose Mourinho team so it should come as no real surprise to them that United beat Benfica with a lucky own goal and a penalty, that they look set to qualify comfortably for the last 16 of the Champions League after four wins from four, or that despite those facts it was all rather uninspiring.

Sunderland boss Simon Grayson has no issue with Paddy McNair's inclusion in Northern Ireland's World Cup play-off squad, even though he only returned from an 11-month injury lay-off on Saturday.

Jose Mourinho believes it will be an "impossible mission" to end his managerial career at Manchester United.

The Red Devils established an early three-point lead at the top of Group A.

Always try to start a column with a topical reference, they tell you at Hack School. 

Healthcare solutions company Novartis Ringaskiddy has just marked a number of very significant milestones; having recently welcomed the global Novartis board of directors to the Cork campus, the company has also just unveiled its first ever Cork-born site lead.

A run of disappointing drug trials at Roche has left analysts suggesting the view from its new 41-storey office building in Basel, Switzerland, has become more clouded, with little chance of management now upgrading its growth forecast next week, when it reports first-half earnings.

Cork Airport is on course for 5% passenger growth this year despite feeling the first “chill effects” of Brexit.

In focusing on the similarities between creatures, Pierre Belon laid the groundwork for a new branch of science, writes Richard Collins

Vienna is once again the premier destination to live for company employees assigned abroad, while Dublin beats London, Paris and Rome, according to the 2017 Mercer quality of living survey.

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

A court appeal by a couple who were fined in Switzerland for keeping their daughters out of mandatory mixed-gender school swimming lessons for reasons linked to their Muslim faith has been rejected.

A Dublin hospital had the third highest number of drug-related emergencies across 20 major hospitals in 14 European countries over the last two years.

With all the hype and controversy surround Pokemon GO, has anyone stopped to think how the Pokémon might feel, hunted day and night with no place to hide?

Novartis employees in Shanghai have a new $1 billion home.

Liverpool 1 Sevilla 3: Liverpool’s whirlwind development under Jurgen Klopp has taken a painful and significant knock after they were demolished by Sevilla in the second half of a Europa League Final in Basel, underlining that sheer character alone may not be enough to recreate former glories at Anfield.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Liverpool may boast a proud record in Europe but it is their opponents, Sevilla, who enter the history books tonight.

Has a team ever lifted a European trophy after going an entire season without winning an away game in their own league?

WHEN a sprawling yellow banner cascaded from the stands of Basel’s St Jakob-Park football stadium in late-2013 the world was suddenly alerted to a struggle for freedom thousands of kilometres away that had been waging for weeks.

Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1: Eden Hazard may finally have rediscovered the form that has deserted him for virtually the entire season, but the one player foremost on Chelsea’s minds at Anfield was John Terry.

Liverpool 2 Watford 0: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has rescinded his invitation for all fans to travel to Basel for the Europa League final after admitting it was “not too smart”.