You have crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a ship to Ireland. You are tired and hungry and desperate to deliver your expensive cargo to port.

The matches, which will take place in Nottingham, Birmingham and at The Oval in London, will be part of the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League which acts as the first qualifier for the 2023 Cricket World Cup.

A woman who sued and lost her High Court action after she fractured her elbow when she took a Caribbean cruise shore excursion called a White Knuckle Jet Boat Thrill Ride now faces a large legal costs bill.

Thomas Barr had to make do with fourth-place at tonight’s latest Diamond League meeting in Rome, but the Waterford star did record his second-fastest 400m hurdles of the season as Rai Benjamin of the United States decimated the field.

A woman who sued after she fractured her elbow when she took a cruise shore excursion called a White Knuckle Jet Boat Thrill Ride, involving 360-degree turns in the middle of the ocean, has lost her High Court action.

Dancing teacher Siobhan Kellett was on a seven-night Caribbean cruise to celebrate her 50th birthday and her silver wedding anniversary.

Inishbofin is one of two islands so named in Ireland (not that there are others elsewhere) — the other is a beautiful scimitar of an island just off Magheroarty Beach in Co Donegal which is minute in comparison.

A cynical talent show made room for two talented people, both with life-defining disabilities, writes Fergus Finlay.

Ireland will book their spot at next year’s World Cup if they overcome Afghanistan in their final qualifier this morning after Zimbabwe suffered a shock defeat to the UAE in Harare.

Look back 100 years this summer, and Wexford were approaching the football championship with a mind to claim their fifth straight All-Ireland title.

Graham Ford and his Ireland squad had long left these shores for warmer climes by the time the current chill descended, but the cold and wet of an already bleak Irish winter had long since reached his bones over the opening weeks of the New Year.

New Ireland coach Graham Ford will rely on experience when the team bids to land a place in what would be a fourth straight Cricket World Cup, this time via the ICC qualifiers in Zimbabwe in March.

AS rookies in the international men’s Test cricket league, Ireland’s XI might have hoped for understrength opponents for their debut five-day contest in Dublin next May; the West Indies, currently, just aren’t cutting it. 

As racing fans flock to this week’s Listowel Races, Ray Ryan looks at the runaway success tale of Irish thoroughbred horse breeding

Former Barcelona captain and coach Pep Guardiola has spoken of his sorrow following Thursday's terrorist attack in his home city. MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER PEP GUARDIOLA SADDENED BY BARCELONA TERROR ATTACK

AFTER an entrepreneurial career spanning 66 years, businessman Michael Bowes has decided to retire from his current employment, heading up the Fernhill Hotel, on the edge of Carrigaline and 100 metres from where the new N28 road to Ringaskiddy is set to run.

The president of Amy Winehouse’s record label still feels “pangs of guilt” about the singer’s death and is more sensitive to his artists’ wellbeing ever since.

In all those years of success following that incredible 2007 World Cup win over Pakistan, there was a sense that the Irish sporting public couldn’t quite get their head around the fact they had a cricket team that was taking on and beating the best teams in the world.

Joey Barton has called on football to reconsider its links with the gambling industry after the Football Association banned him for 18 months for breaking its betting rules.

Growing up, there were no books at home. Only the Bible and The News of the World. We were poor and university was never mentioned as an option. I went to grammar school and enjoyed writing but didn’t enjoy reading. Being a writer was never on my list of things to do.

ETHIOPIA will forever leave images of solitary walkers in my mind’s eye, lone men and women walking beside country roads or on paths across endless plains, miles from villages or any habitation, writes Damien Enright.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

I HAVE always admired the delicate carvings of a butter stamp and remember my grandmother showing me one when I was very young. 

Guinness enjoyed a strong second half to 2015, with year-on-year sales growth of 5% being noted in Ireland and the iconic stout’s global sales jumping by 9%.

An increase in the average amount being spent on weddings by Irish couples last year, helped boost profits at the company owned by well-known wedding planner/organiser, Peter Kelly.

Regan King is used to leaving defenders not knowing where to look, but Leinster could tonight be forgiven for thinking they were suffering double vision.

In day four of our special report on rural Ireland we visit Ballydehob, Co. Cork.

In his first press conference as the new Irish cricket coach in April, John Bracewell admitted he had coveted the job long before Phil Simmons left for the West Indies.

The sun comes out, and the butterflies follow. Few and far between, we saw only three on a 6km walk, two small heaths and a solitary speckled wood spiralling about under some beeches.

A luxury yacht which was seized last September carrying €80m of cocaine is to be auctioned off by the State.

PEOPLE are lured from all over the world to the beauty spots and hideaway havens of West Cork and, to a lesser extent, to East Cork.

15 minutes after the rain came to halt play in the one-day international between Ireland and England, all 9,000 seats at Malahide Cricket Club were empty and the groundstaff had already begun the clean-up.

When Ireland face England in today’s Royal London one-day international at Malahide, the familiar face of a favourite son will be 5,000 miles away in Delhi.

John Bracewell claims his Ireland team are about to come up against a clutch of players who should have been at the World Cup, and might well have lifted England’s sorry campaign if they had been.

Cricket Ireland chose John Bracewell as the new head coach “because he gets us and he gets Test cricket’, according to high performance director Richard Holdsworth.

Cricket Ireland will appoint New Zealander John Bracewell as their new head coach in the next few days. He will replace Trinidadian Phil Simmons, who left in March to become head coach of the West Indies.

THIS latest work of fiction by the West Indies-born writer and Yale professor is as much a personal journey of discovery as it is a literary gem.

Cricket Ireland are “hopeful” a new national team coach will be in place for the showpiece one-day international against England at Malahide on May 8.

Ed Joyce says a “new voice” may help freshen up the Irish cricket team following Phil Simmons’ appointment as head coach of the West Indies. 

Ireland coach Phil Simmons is poised to become the new boss of the West Indies.

“The biggest game in Ireland’s cricket history,” is what Niall O’Brien calls tomorrow night’s shoot-out with Pakistan for a quarter-final berth.