Guinness PRO14 chiefs last night decided to suspend the 2019-20 season indefinitely, with the cross-border league going as far as to cancel its grand final, which had been set to take place in Cardiff on June 20.

Dublin Airport set a new record for traffic as it welcomed 32.9 million passengers last year.

Over the years, I have perfected the povhol — the poverty holiday, or travel on a shoestring.

The low-fare airline, is now flying from Cork to Malaga six times per week as well as four flights a week to the Spanish resort of Palma, now four per week.

A study placed the Irish-based budget airline in eighth place, with an average delay of 21 minutes per flight in 2018.

Britain has seen a new record temperature has been set for 2019, with the mercury expected to keep rising.

Brendan O’Brien Conan: We didn’t play the Leinster rugby that got us to the final

All things — good and bad — come to an end. So it was, on the first Saturday in April, six days after they had defeated Racing 92 in the Champions Cup quarter-final, by a single point and with 14 players, Toulouse’s record-breaking unbeaten domestic run finally hit the rocks, against Toulon.

An Italian man accused of raping a British teenager on a Mediterranean cruise has been released without charge by Spanish authorities because of a legal loophole.

Tom Hanks would be proud. A charity shop is saving Private Ryan’s medals for his relatives after a chance discovery made in an old jacket handed into it.

Munster put the “Sold Out” signs up at Thomond Park yesterday as supporters snapped up the last of the tickets for the Heineken Champions Cup pool finale with Exeter Chiefs but it is the penultimate game this Friday night that is occupying Johann van Graan.

The 67,000-seater Stade Velodrome will also host the Challenge Cup decider on the same weekend.

Pilot representatives at Ryanair will meet later today to decide on dates for another wave of strikes here.

Hundreds of thousands of ecstatic French fans celebrated the return of their World Cup winning football team yesterday, jumping and chanting “We are the champions” as their bus paraded down the Champs Elysees before a special presidential reception.

Some of the world’s top urban thinkers biked and walked around Cork yesterday to see how a “city on the rise” is poised to become the fastest growing region in Ireland — but decision-makers need to realise its value for the benefit of the whole country.

Diego Simeone has played down the significance of Atletico Madrid’s big-game experience ahead of the Europa League final against Marseille.

The Venice Biennale is a familiar enough concept to most of us, be it art or architecture, but few have ever been, and fewer still have taken part.

Scrum-half James Hart believes Munster’s two-match tour to South Africa is the perfect way to build up for the Champions Cup showdown with his former club Racing 92 on Sunday week.

My gambling career, while undeniably short-lived, was pretty momentous.

We look back at a fascinating 2018 tournament. 

Munster 48 - Casters 3: The weather may have halted Munster temporarily but when they did get started it was worth the wait as the province secured a 17th European quarter-final by topping Champions Cup Pool 4 in commanding style.

A former Uefa director who went missing for two months has been found safe.

The attacker was killed by soldiers after Sunday's stabbings, which were claimed by the Islamic State group.

Five people are in custody after an apparent failed bombing attempt in a chic Paris neighbourhood.

Latest: A man who stabbed two women to death at Marseille's main railway station had been arrested and released the day before the attack, French officials have said.

Two women were killed by a knifeman who was then shot dead by soldiers in Marseille's main railway station.

All’s fair in love and war and, it seems, the bidding process for major sporting events.

Update 7.30pm: An acid attack on four American women in Marseille is not being investigated as an act of terrorism, French officials said.

Norwegian Air has said it is recruiting pilots to be based in Dublin in order to “support its transatlantic operations as well as future growth in Ireland”.

Police have used water cannons and tear gas on several hundred hooded youths who joined a protest march in Paris against French President Emmanuel Macron's pro-business labour policies.

French police are preparing as unions and other goups hold nationwide protests against changes to labour laws they fear damage job security.

Air passengers across Europe are facing disruption today as air traffic controls go on strike again.

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Chris Froome savoured his fourth Tour de France title as Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen won stage 21 of the race in Paris.

Chris Froome is set to win his fourth Tour de France title after increasing his lead in Saturday's penultimate time trial in Marseille.

Dan Martin is on course for his highest overall finish in six attempts at the Tour de France as he’s currently sixth on General Classification, three places higher than he ended up last year.

Dan Martin is closing in on Ireland’s best overall result at the Tour de France since his uncle Stephen Roche won the race 30 years ago — but he will not emulate him by claiming the yellow jersey.

Dan Martin jumped back up to sixth overall but conceded precious time to race leader Chris Froome in yesterday’s 17th stage of the Tour de France, the Irishman now trailing by 2:37 with four stages remaining.

An Irish journalist has said he felt “more amused than threatened” after Team Sky boss Dave Brailsford yesterday attempted to block the reporter from the team’s media event over unfavourable coverage of his evasive attitude to the press.

French voters have given President Emmanuel Macron's party a solid victory in the parliamentary election.

French voters are casting their ballots in the final round of parliamentary elections that could clinch President Emmanuel Macron's hold on power, as his fledgling party appears set to rout mainstream rivals.

French voters are choosing politicians on Sunday in a vote that is crucial for newly-elected president Emmanuel Macron.

Both come from old port cities beside the Mediterranean, but the two men arrived at the top of their profession by completely different routes, writes David Shonfield.