More than two dozen people, including the trainer of champion Maximum Security, have been charged in what authorities described yesterday as a widespread international scheme to drug horses to make them race faster.

GAA president-elect Larry McCarthy has revealed he flew approximately 80,000 air miles in the last three months of his successful campaign to become the 40th president of the GAA.

Tonight’s battle to become the next GAA president is a two-horse race between Jarlath Burns and Larry McCarthy.

Shares in Paddy Power owner Flutter Entertainment crashed by nearly 10% despite the betting company expressing confidence that the Cheltenham horseracing festival will go ahead next month amid fears mass public events could be caught up in the fallout from the spread of the coronavirus.

Mighty Ducks actor Shaun Weiss has been arrested in Washington for burglary and suspected use of methamphetamine.

Fighting elitism, curbing the excesses associated with the inter-county game and a significant refocus on the club are among the priorities for the five GAA presidential candidates.

One of the country’s leading funeral directors started to embalm bodies in the 1970s because modern medicine was causing remains to decompose at a much faster rate.

In an industry where women battle ageism and sexism, Meryl Streep has managed to decide her own destiny – and roles, writes Suzanne Harrington

History repeats itself and all that, so Irish football fans watched the fallout from the Raheem Sterling-Joe Gomez spat this week with special interest.

In thinking about our county, we must think about our coast says Jimmy Murphy

Paddy Power owner Flutter Entertainment has said it expects to reduce losses in its burgeoning US operations this year.

Employee dedication has been central to the soaring fortunes of Global Shares, the Clonakilty-based fin-tech company whose staff numbers have doubled in the past 12 months.

There are many reasons why even the oldest democracies, such as the US and Britain, are increasingly riven by tribal hatreds. But when political leaders deliberately exploit these rifts and whip up hostile emotions even further, they do immense harm to the institutions that guarantee people’s freedom and safety, writes Ian Buruma

Ladbrokes shops in the Republic will avoid being hit by a plan to close hundreds of the British bookmaker's shops over the next two years, but some of its shops in the North may be shut.

Harley Davidson is betting on electric motorcycles to attract the next generation of younger and more environmentally conscious riders to reverse declining US sales.

Jack Carty was on holiday in Spain two years ago when Joey Carbery injured some ligaments in Ireland’s defeat of the USA in New Jersey.

While Shrita Parker was posing for photos at the launch of Basketball Ireland’s new season in Tallaght on Wednesday there was a mass shooting in her home town of Virginia Beach.

Inspired by the ‘gig economy’, The Warehouse is set in a near future world that is horribly believable – zero rights, low pay, devices tracking your every move. Author Rob Hart hopes it will be a wake up call for us all, writes Suzanne Harrington

The US president has been condemned for tweeting about conspiracies linking Bill Clinton to the sudden death of Jeffrey Epstein, write John Whitesides

The PGA Tour has announced plans to review its current pace-of-play policy after golf’s slow-play debate turned personal.

Shane Lowry has recovered from a shaky start to card a two-under par 69 on the opening day of the Northern Trust.

The HSE has confirmed around 400 women have received letters from CervicalCheck containing incorrect information.

Rory McIlroy has called for slow players to receive a solitary warning before receiving shot penalties.

Masters champion Tiger Woods played down an injury scare on the eve of his first appearance since missing the cut in the Open Championship as he attempts to play back-to-back events for just the second time this season.

Shares in Flutter — the betting conglomerate that includes Paddy Power, Betfair, its Australian and now key operations in a newly liberalised US — surged over 6% after it unveiled no nasty surprises in half-year results.

The passenger is understood to have been suffering from ‘acute pain’.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s return to his hometown club was marred by the confirmation that Manchester United defender Eric Bailly faces up to five months out following knee surgery.

Every place likes to think it has a unique relationship with a visiting star, I guess, but there's no two ways about it, Tommy Tiernan seems to be at his outrageous best when he's in the capital of the south.

Dublin was late to the anti-Trump party but the crowds who gathered on day two of the US president’s visit made their presence felt.

Pete Taylor believes his daughter deserved to have her hand raised in victory against Delfine Persoon in New York last Saturday night, but he admitted it was a close call.

Ed Power reviews Western Stars, an album expected to split opinon among fans of the Boss.

The days of Brooks Koepka flying under the radar are officially over.

Long before Jim Furyk became a major champion and 2018 US captain of the Ryder Cup, he tried to Monday Qualify for the Buick Classic at Knollwood Country Club in Elmsford, NY.

Three months ago, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) predicted an ugly 2019 as the healthcare giant faced thousands of consumer lawsuits and pressure in the US on drug prices.

The twins are seven now and have already developed a keen nose for ‘controvassy’.

Paddy Power-Betfair is targeting so-called 'contribution' profits of $600m (€530m)from its currently loss-making US operations by the middle of the next decade.

An Irish woman is set to headline professional wrestling's biggest night tonight.

It is a long time since an Irish Taoiseach - Charlie Haughey – was able to boast about the country’s youthful population, about the fact that half of us were aged under 25.