Substitute Olivier Giroud inspired Chelsea to a 3-2 comeback triumph at St Mary's which dealt a big blow to Southampton's Premier League survival hopes.

An outspoken former Limerick mayor claims the people of St Mary’s Park — named in a Pobal deprivation index as the most disadvantaged area of the country — were “abandoned” by state development agencies over decades.

Claude Puel was last night confirmed as Leicester’s new first-team manager.

New Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford has dismissed the pressure over his €34million price tag, despite becoming the world’s third most expensive keeper in history and the most expensive in British football.

Arsene Wenger is not prepared to share responsibilities at Arsenal as he insists he will never work alongside a director of football.

Maya Yoshida and James Ward-Prowse spared Shane Long's blushes as Southampton hit two goals in as many minutes to sink Crystal Palace 3-1 at St Mary's.

Kevin Doyle can’t be sure. It has been 10 years, after all.

Arsene Wenger believes he has said and heard worse abuse on the touchline than the actions which have landed him in hot water with the FA.

The legacy of the late Owen O’Callaghan can be seen throughout his native Cork and beyond.

Chelsea equalled the Premier League record for the most consecutive wins in a season despite conceding twice for the first time since September.

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Jurgen Klopp was satisfied by the performance of his much-travelled Liverpool side as they were held to a goalless stalemate at Southampton.

My mother often develops bronchitis. What natural remedies would you suggest?

“It breaks our hearts to lose you all, you didn’t go alone, for part of us went with you all, the day God called you home.”

Thousands of people yesterday showed their veneration in St Mary’s Cathedral in Killarney, Co Kerry, for the relics of St Anthony of Padua, the 13th century saint revered as the finder of lost things.

Megan Sheppard gives advice on how to protect your hands from age spots and what to do to prepare for hiatus hernia surgery.

The rows of concrete wreckage which form streets through St Mary’s Park are a stark definition of how the much-vaunted Limerick Regeneration Plan has failed this community, writes Jimmy Woulfe

Around 500 people, including the heartbroken mother of the 11-month-old baby found dead in an apartment on Sunday, have attended a special Mass in Killarney’s St Mary’s Cathedral.

The fight will continue, said Ballyhea residents, as the North Cork village wrapped up five unbroken years of weekly Sunday protests against the bondholder bailouts yesterday.

It was a bad day for Everton, Villa and Newcastle today.

The parents of a man who died while taking a shortcut through fields have thanked the volunteers who helped find his body.

Jamie Vardy missed two good chances to extend his goalscoring streak to 12 straight games but a Riyad Mahrez hat-trick sent Leicester back to the top of the Barclays Premier League.

Manager Remi Garde has cautioned Aston Villa’s players about letting their hair down at Christmas.

Ronald Koeman believes Southampton and Swansea are examples of how to conduct “football business” on and off the pitch.

Nurses are to protest against “severe and damaging cuts” to intellectual disability services outside the Dáil next Tuesday.

Having upped sticks from Malahide, the Irish squad will get a first taste of their new Dublin base when they step out on Pitch Number One at the National Training Centre in Abbotstown this morning, to begin preparations for the European Championship double-header away to Gibraltar in Faro on Friday and at home to Georgia in the Aviva Stadium on the following Monday.

Everton won at Southampton today, thanks to two goals from Romelu Lukaku and a strike from Ross Barkley.

Hat-trick record-breaker Sadio Mane was quick to praise fellow star man Shane Long after Southampton got their European challenge back on track with a rout of dismal Villa.

Jay Rodriguez has ended speculation over his future by signing a new and improved contract at Southampton, keeping him at St Mary’s until 2019.

Kilmeen Drama Group has been blazing a trail in Irish amateur theatre since the 1940s, writes Colette Sheridan

Tom Spalding reviews a new book on Holy Trinity Church and the discovery of its Harry Clarke window.

A dramatist’s "treasure trove" of artefacts, some of which date to the Second World War and which are housed in farms around West Cork, is to be moved to a custom-built ‘coach-house’.

If Koeman wants to blame anyone, why not Balotelli? Everybody else does, writes Steven Kelly.

A priest has appealed for feuding members of the Travelling community to turn away from violence.

The removal Mass of a man shot dead at a wedding in Fermanagh is taking place today.

A guest due to attend a traveller wedding in Co Fermanagh died after being gunned down outside the church yesterday.

A guest due to attend a Traveller wedding has died after being gunned down outside a church in the North.

Premier League

Chelsea have distanced themselves from the prospect of making a £500m move for Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi.

Arsene Wenger insists Wojciech Szczesny remains in contention for a return to the Arsenal side for the weekend visit of Stoke despite smoking a cigarette following a recent defeat at Southampton.

A supporter has been arrested after confronting Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger as his side crashed to a 2-0 defeat at Southampton.

A supporter has been arrested after confronting Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger as his side crashed to a 2-0 defeat at Southampton.