So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up.

Marcelo Bielsa insisted he never said he would walk away from Leeds if they did not win promotion to the Premier League this season.

Ireland might be top of Group D but Mick McCarthy is keeping his feet firmly on the ground.

Mick McCarthy and Seamus Coleman have paid tribute in Gibraltar to Jon Walters, after the striker announced that injury has forced him to retire from football, bringing to a close an illustrious Irish career which saw him score 14 goals in 54 appearances.

Stephen Kenny is at one with the man he will succeed as Irish manager in holding the view that any cap at senior level should be enough to copper-fasten a player’s international future.

In contrast to soundbites of rebuilding and transition by his predecessor Martin O’Neill, injected into the mission statement from Mick McCarthy is a reality check in pragmatism.

Mick McCarthy has revealed his wife pleaded with him to call it quits at Ipswich when the unhappy Portman Road natives were at their most vicious.

A father-of-four murdered his wife then hanged himself weeks after an anonymous note alluding to his wife having an affair was delivered through the family door, an inquest in the UK heard.

Who knows how much money he would have made, how many caps he’d have earned, how many honours he’d have won, had Colin Healy not had his leg badly broken by an awful tackle when he was just 23. 

Football’s place in the grand scheme of things was made plain again last week with the news of Kevin Doyle’s forced retirement.

A former law lecturer who went on the run from court in England before a jury found him guilty of downloading indecent images of children has been sentenced in his absence.

Four alleged members of banned neo-Nazi group National Action who have been arrested on suspicion of preparing acts of terror are serving members of the British Army.

Of vital importance to everyone involved in making the drama is that “the public really understand how grooming works”, writes Susan Griffin

There was a distinctly Irish flavour to Aberdeen’s 3-2 win over Hibernian in Saturday’s Scottish Cup semi-final.

A law lecturer who fled England just before he was due to be sentenced for creating indecent images of a child has failed in his third attempt to challenge his detention here, pending his extradition.

A clergyman has appeared in court in England accused of filming young men in public toilets.

A law lecturer who took a ferry to Ireland after an Ipswich jury convicted him of possessing child porn, has lost his latest legal challenge.

A convicted paedophile in England who raped and sexually assaulted six young girls will spend almost 10 years behind bars before he has any chance of release.

Pro10 Sports Management, the company appointed as Ireland’s Authorised Ticket Reseller (ATR) and whose directors are the subject of arrest warrants, has insisted once again that its process for selling tickets was “fully within ATR guidelines”.

Alan Judge’s Euro 2016 dream is almost certainly over after the midfielder broke his leg in Brentford’s 3-1 Championship win at Ipswich on Saturday.

A law lecturer wanted in Britain for possession of pornographic images of children will be extradited to face sentencing, a judge at the High Court ruled yesterday.

Middlesbrough 0 Everton 2: Gerard Deulofeu turned in a master-class to send Everton into the Capital One Cup semi-finals and fulfil the prophecy of Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka.

More than 100 cinemas in the UK and Ireland will be screening the upcoming special episode of Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, on January 1st, 2016.

Gardaí intercepted and detained an escaped British sex offender as he was about to board a plane to Hungary yesterday morning.

After a decade of racing and three second-place spots, a young Irish racing driver has finally made history after being crowned world hot rod champion.

I’m in the away dressing room of the Saputo Stadium and it’s all pretty quiet, sombre. The current occupants, Orlando City SC, have just lost to Montreal Impact in a run-of-the-mill MLS game and the deafening silence says much.

Ipswich Town striker Daryl Murphy has enjoyed the season of his life. Stuart Watson spoke to the Championship’s 27-goal top-scorer.

USA: Walt Disney World must rehire three performers who were fired when they refused to wear soiled Spandex unitards as part of their costumes for the “Festival of the Lion King” show, an arbitrator ruled.

Britain: A vicar stopped from going in to a wine bar on Easter Sunday because he was wearing his trademark sandals hopes to return because they “do great mojitos”.

This Sunday, when goals will be the only relevant currency to reviving Ireland’s Euro 2016 qualification quest, sharpshooter Daryl Murphy is ready to play his part in clipping the wings of Group D leaders Poland.

All-Ireland Club finalists Slaughtneil revealed Kerry star Kieran Donaghy sent a message of goodwill to Christopher Bradley for the shoulder tackle which may rule him out of the final on St Patrick’s Day.

Young Irish footballers need more psychological help to cope with a sense of failure when they return early from England.

Cork legend Roy Keane will be feeling a little more flush today after his former Ipswich home was sold for a cool £3m (€3.9m).

The widow of a 7/7 bombing victim has been jailed for two years and eight months after stealing £43,000 (€56,000) from her son’s compensation.

A man has been charged by police investigating three deaths linked to a suspected rogue batch of ecstasy pills, as another person was admitted to hospital after taking the drug.

Three men are being questioned by police after a spate of deaths linked to a potentially fatal batch of ecstasy tablets.

West Ham United 1 Newcastle 0

We all like to find a little of ourselves in Roy Keane. And there it was.