Odds-on favourites Bachasson, Long Dog and Fugi Mountain continued the rich vein of form being enjoyed by champion trainer Willie Mullins when recording a treble in Sligo yesterday.

Postulation, a course and distance winner last August, should be tough to beat in the four-runner Irish Stallion Farms Race in Killarney tonight.

Cricket Ireland has condemned the “contemptuous” mocking of World Cup star John Mooney in a Zimbabwean newspaper.

To Ireland cricket fans, no country is the source of as much envy and vexation as Zimbabwe.

Ireland arrived in Canberra as one of only three teams to have a perfect record in the 2015 Cricket World Cup. 

“I don’t think it’s make or break."

The Irish-born captain of England's one-day cricket team, Eoin Morgan, was the target of a recent blackmail attempt, the England Cricket Board has announced.

Katy Perry became a weather girl for an Australian news show yesterday.

All 52 passengers who spent Christmas and New Year trapped on an icebound Russian research vessel in Antarctica have been airlifted from the ice in a dramatic rescue mission.

West Cork-based Australian painter and sculptor, John Kelly, is sailing for two weeks from Hobart, in Australia, across the Southern Ocean for a three-month art residency in the Antarctic. His work there will be “a direct painterly response to the unique, wild and beautiful Antarctic landscape.”

As the Obamas and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth can all testify, Irish people are still considered to be among the friendliest in the world.

Incredible pictures have emerged of one family's attempts to escape the wildfires ravaging Australia.

Emergency services say the conditions surrounding more than 130 bushfires in one Australian state have reached "catastrophic" levels.

A search for bodies has begun among the charred ruins of more than 100 homes and other buildings destroyed by wildfires in Australia’s island state of Tasmania.

Australian crews battled a series of wildfires amid scorching temperatures across the country, with one blaze destroying dozens of homes in the island state of Tasmania.

Derry has been named as one of the world’s best cities to visit in 2013.

EOIN MORGAN walked away from the Gabba haunted by the dreams which might have been.

A truck carrying AUS$250,000 (€179,172) worth of salmon crashed in Tasmania, spilling 15 tons of fish into the street.

Former world number one Lleyton Hewitt will be sidelined until May after revealing he had been forced to undergo his second hip surgery in 18 months.

Nadia Petrova claimed her second big-name scalp in as many rounds with an upset win over third seed Svetlana Kuznetsova at the Australian Open today.

CAPTAIN Ricky Ponting rated Australia’s 36-run win over Pakistan in the second Test at the SCG among the most satisfying of his career.

THE GAA in Australia, which has experienced an explosion of interest over the last decade, is expected to be further strengthened by the influx of young people leaving Ireland in search of employment.

The Australian government said radical conservationists who have been pursuing Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters could refuel their ship in Hobart, Tasmania, despite Japan’s claim that they are tantamount to terrorists.

British-based Australian Formula One driver Mark Webber was seriously injured today after he collided with a car while riding his bike, Australian police said.

GERARD ROE is one of the few who can unearth the positives from Ireland’s economic doom and gloom.

ENGLAND recovered from a pedestrian start to yesterday’s opening match of the NatWest Series with Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen propelling them to a competitive total against South Africa.

ACC BANK were yesterday unveiled as sponsors of Cork Week, Ireland’s largest International Sailing Regatta at Royal Cork Yacht Club Crosshaven (July 12-18).

IN 1933, a rare Tasmanian tiger was snared by a trapper. In those days, exotic creatures were sold to fairground operators who put them on display for money. This particular animal, however, ended up in Hobart Zoo where it was christened Benjamin by a journalist, even though its sex was never reliably determined.

AUSTRALIAN supermaxi Wild Oats won the 62nd Sydney to Hobart yacht race yesterday, becoming the first yacht in 42 years to notch up back-to-back victories in the bluewater classic.

Firefighters managed to contain a raging blaze that was threatening up to 1,000 homes near the southern Australian city of Hobart today.

Firefighters today struggled to contain a wildfire blazing out of control near the southern Australian city of Hobart, threatening up to 1,000 homes.

WITH temperatures close to 30 degrees and wind speeds climbing to 15 knots, the 402 racing boats at Crosshaven spend yesterday asking was there a catch.

A Japanese whaling ship dodged a confrontation with environmental protesters today by airlifting a sick crewman to an Australian hospital.

IRISH yachts hold places in the top two in all three of the premier classes at Skandia Cowes Week after the first four days.

AUSTRALIAN researchers are reviving a project to bring an extinct animal known as the Tasmanian tiger back from the dead through cloning.

For Seán Kelly, Cork’s docklands are where the city meets the world and where he recalls Hobart, his home port.

A fire swept through a backpacker hostel in southern Australia today, killing a Scottish tourist, police said.

ENVIRONMENTALISTS yesterday began a treetop protest to highlight the threat to the world's tallest hardwood trees, endangered by logging in Australia's island state of Tasmania.

Shane Warne is hopeful of making Australia's team for the first VB Series final against England.

THE painful part of this year’s easy Sydney to Hobart race has come. A controversial starting line collision will be arbitrated today, and time is running out for yachts seeking the prestigious handicap victory.

FAVOURABLE winds carried New Zealand maxi Alfa Romeo ahead for a second night in the 58th Sydney to Hobart yacht race but her commanding lead was narrowed by shrewd tactics at the business end of the race.

CHRIS SILVERWOOD touched down in Tasmania determined to make the most of his opportunity on this Ashes tour, even if that signals the end of county team-mate Matthew Hoggard’s run in England’s Test line-up.

The family of a British woman killed in a coach crash in Tasmania say they are comforted by the knowledge she was having a wonderful time before she died.