Brighton’s Shane Duffy and Sheffield United’s David McGoldrick could yet be fit for Ireland’s game against Switzerland on Tuesday week.

From the return of James McCarthy to the arrival of Troy Parrot, Nathan

IT was good to see the other side of cycling in Ireland. Two weeks after the Velo-city cycling conference, I was in need of a different news-cycle.

The former boss of the collapsed charities fundraising service Pembroke Dynamic intends to contest High Court proceedings taken against him by the firm's liquidator.

A French fighter jet carrying two pilots has disappeared from radar screens near the Swiss border.

The imprisoned boss of a fundraising platform business at the centre of an investigation into the alleged misappropriation of €3.8m in charity donations intends to contest High Court orders freezing his assets.

Exceptional snow and wind has forced airports to close in Switzerland and France and stranded several hundred drivers in their cars as a Siberian cold snap stretches across Europe.

It includes works by Albrecht Duerer, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro.

Brive 27 Castres 22: Veteran captain Rodrigo Capo Ortega and experienced scrum-half Rory Kockott are expected to return for Castres for Sunday’s Champions Cup open clash with Munster after missing this surprise loss at Stade Amedee Domenech on Saturday evening.

Swiss International Air Lines is expanding its Cork-Zurich service for 2018, on the back of demand from the region’s pharma firms.

Swiss International Air Lines is expanding its Cork-Zurich service for 2018, on the back of demand from the region’s pharma firms.

Eight people are still unaccounted for in a Swiss Alpine valley a day after a mudslide and rockslide hit a small village near the Italian border, police said.

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Russia has proposed that a two-day round of Syrian peace talks should start on July 4.

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Swiss International Air has a new route between Cork and Zurich.

Danny Willett surprised himself with a brilliant start to the defence of his Omega European Masters title.

A knifeman yesterday attacked passengers on a train in western Austria, seriously wounding two.

A coach carrying a group of British school pupils has crashed in France near the Swiss border.

More than 80 people have been killed and around 200 others injured in a series of attacks claimed by IS in coastal government strongholds in Syria.

YOU can’t have everything in a car, right? Power, precision, poise, prestige, practicality — pick two or three and be happy.

Billionaire investor George Soros said Donald Trump is playing into the hands of terrorists by creating fear of Muslims in an effort to get elected.

Doctors Without Borders has called for an independent and unprecedented fact-finding mission to investigate a US air strike on a hospital run by the medical aid group in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people.

Although it may be of a similar size to our own capital, Zurich has a distinctly different feel, with royal blue trams criss-crossing the centre against the backdrop of bridges, clock towers and the beautifully preserved buildings, writes Arlene Harris.

The number of victims in Saturday’s Shoreham Airshow crash when a Hawker Hunter jet ploughed into the A27 in West Sussex and exploded in a huge fireball now stands at 11, police say.

A large fire has broken out in the northern Swiss city of Olten, according to reports, with witnesses describing several explosions.

Scientists operating the world’s biggest particle collider say they have set a new energy record ahead of the massive machine’s full restart in June.

Nick Wyatt takes us for a ride in his 1972 Dodge Custom 200 Stepside Pickup which he says is pretty quick for a heavy truck.

The main talking point at this week’s Geneva Car Show is likely to be a vehicle that may never be built: the Apple car.

Wales have confirmed two pre-tournament fixtures against Joe Schmidt’s side in Cardiff and Dublin.

Idler Johnson the unlikeliest of Red heroes

English golfer Andy Sullivan won a once-in-a-lifetime prize at the KLM Open in the Netherlands at the weekend.

Michael Schumacher will now be buoyed by the familiar surroundings of his home in Switzerland as he continues to rebuild his life.

Legia Warsaw have confirmed they have submitted an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over their expulsion from the Champions League.

The owner of an office supply business in Tralee, Co Kerry, and a "generous" charity worker, was found to have almost €800,000 in Swiss and other foreign bank accounts uncovered on foot of a revenue investigation and a European tip-off.

It may be the Rugby Champions Cup now, but the inaugural pool draw for the new competition will have elicited reactions that are all too familiar from the days when the tournament was known as the Heineken Cup.

Market share gains in Ireland and a number of its other major western European markets helped mitigate sliding sales volumes elsewhere in the continent for Dutch beer giant Heineken in the first quarter of this year.

A 27-year-old Irish skier was one of four people killed as avalanches struck the Swiss and French Alps.

Private investigators seized former UCI chief Pat McQuaid’s laptop computer within minutes of him losing the presidency of the organisation to Britain’s Brian Cookson, it has emerged.