IIreland might have back-to-back Euro qualifiers looming next month but Mick McCarthy doesn’t think it’s a gamble that, in advance of those big games away to Denmark and home to Gibraltar, his Irish contingent at Sheffield United are heading off to Las Vegas to celebrate the club’s promotion to the Premier League.

Irish people living in the United States fear for the lives of their children, who are only armed with active shooter drills if a gunman targets their school. Some miss home, writes Aileen C. O’Reilly.

Backstreet Boys are back — but is that alright?

Isabel Conway spots the travel trends for the year ahead.

Jon Rahm will be watching tonight’s multi-million dollar showdown between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, either in person or on TV, despite admitting the contest has come at least 10 years too late.

Despite his off-field spats with Irish players, Roy Keane has risen in a poll of Ireland's most admired sports personalities.

Exactly 10 years on from the bailout, Miriam and Terry O’Brien’s story could be any of ours.

“I’m a fighting man from a fighting family of generations of fighters. I am going to knock him out!”

Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages...

Alex Ovechkin put both hands to his head and screamed while he left the bench and skated into the thick of the Washington Capitals’ joyous celebration.

Hours after the Premier League season ends, the game’s brightest and best are getting busy blowing off steam

Niall O’Driscoll is living the life of a rugby nomad. Since leaving Cork Con five years ago, he has captained the Cayman Islands at the North American/Caribbean Sevens Championship and now plays for the Dubai Eagles, who are coached by his own brother.

Donald Trump has claimed he would have rushed in to aid students and teachers during the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school.

New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said: "We do understand that no city or town in this country is completely immune to such unbridled hatred."

The owner of Rolling Stone magazine said it’s exploring strategic options for its majority stake, signaling co-founder Jann Wenner is preparing to relinquish control of the half-century-old iconic music publication.

If you were one of the lucky ones to bag yourself an All-Ireland ticket well you're in for another treat.

Seattle Seahawks star Michael Bennett has claimed police threatened to shoot him last month in Las Vegas for "being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time".

In the end, I suppose we’ll all be happy if the result is a repeat, writes Liam Mackey.

Conor McGregor accused Floyd Mayweather of being in "the worst shape I’ve ever seen" after he outweighed the American by almost four pounds at Friday’s weigh-in.

For a man who calls himself ‘Money’ without any hint of irony, it is perhaps not surprising that Floyd Mayweather loves a bet.

Before Conor McGregor had even heard of mixed martial arts, he wanted to be a boxer.

On Monday in Las Vegas, moments before the solar eclipse, rain began falling heavily on the Strip, unusual to say the least for the middle of August or indeed the middle of the desert.

Number 1 written all over it!

Conor McGregor has said he did not use any racist language while addressing Floyd Mayweather during the press tour ahead of their fight in Vegas, writes Ciara Phelan.

Conor McGregor's UFC coach John Kavanagh has warned Floyd Mayweather the Irishman's boxing skills are improving all the time.

Hailee Steinfeld looked beautiful in a silver macramé dress at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.

House of Pain have fond memories of playing in Ireland, despite spending time in the back of a garda van, writes Ed Power

With near perfect timing, Katie Taylor was addressing a media query relating to her plans for a world-title shot when a top US TV executive arrived to offer his congratulations.

As well as appearing on Dragon’s Den on RTÉ One, Chanelle McCoy’s business interest runs Chanelle Medical, a pharmaceutical company with 350 employees. The 40-year-old grew up in Loughrea, Co Galway, and has two children with her husband, former jockey AP McCoy.

"THERE’S a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis,” sang the late Kirsty McColl.

So strong was the narrative surrounding Conor McGregor’s recent occupation of New York that one could be forgiven for pegging him as a pioneer.

Perhaps the feline fittings were there to provide some home comfort for the man from Tiger’s Bay. True to much of the style of this city — the world capital of excess — it all looked a little much though.

To say Leo Santa Cruz was comfortable in Belfast yesterday may be misleading, but the Mexican former three-weight world champion was certainly taking comfort from personal events away from the hype that goes with prize-fighting.

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