The disconnect between voters and those they are asked to vote for is growing all the time. And the arrogance of that political class has not helped, writes Andrés Velasco.

Michael Blake will be hoping for an improved placing when he takes charge of the Irish showjumping team for his second outing as manager this weekend. His team started brilliantly but dwindled to a sixth-place finish two weeks back in the Nations Cup of America at Deeridge Farms in Wellington, Florida, near to where this second contest is being staged at Palm Beach International Equestrian Centre, also in Wellington.

The 18-year-old super-featherweight from Dripsey has signed a deal with Sheer Sports Management.

The ECB’s growing confidence that the eurozone economy was on the mend may suffer a setback as the continent reels from the economic fallout of the coronavirus, a leading economist has said.

James McClean has emerged as a major injury doubt for Ireland’s Euro play-off against Slovakia next month after sustaining a medial knee ligament injury.

John Daly meets Conor McQuaid to discuss the success of Irish Distillers in USA.

Colm Spillane missed out on last season so that game in Dungarvan was his first competitive outing since October 2018.

Are we there yet? The halfway point of the general election campaign is kicking in this weekend. Yet a cursory examination of the ground traversed since the election was called on January 14 would suggest that in some respects things haven’t really got motoring.

His failure to win at home last summer provided Rory McIlroy with a liberating epiphany.

A paper published in Current Biology examines the extinction of a colourful little bird which, until recently, thrived in the eastern US. With the appalling environmental catastrophe enveloping Australia, home to 56 of the world’s 370 parrot species, this account of the Carolina parakeet’s demise is timely.

The appeal of expensive clothes and lots of money are drawing youngsters into the vicious world of the drugs trade with deadly consequences, writes Liz Dunphy.

In the first of a four-part series looking at the finalists for the Cork Company of the Year Awards, Munster Business Hub editor Alan Healy casts an eye over the contenders in the Emerging category.

The US still imports the kind of crude pumped in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and any disruption to the region’s oil exports would drive prices up at American pumps, writes Julian Lee.