When the Irish senior women’s hockey team play it’s like watching a well choreographed, free-flowing dance.

The Munster side has been named by Head Coach Johann van Graan for Friday night’s Champions Cup clash against Gloucester at Kingsholm.

In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side yesterday under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger,

Kerry’s hard edge. What might have been considered an oxymoron in the past has never been anything but fact as long as Darren Hughes has played senior football for Monaghan.

The Irish women’s team were crowned world champions when defeating Canada in the AFL International Cup Grand Final at Etihad Stadium, Melbourne, Australia.

Brexit Secretary David Davis has hit back at suggestions that there are a lack of women in the team negotiating the UK's withdrawal from the European Union.

A 28-year-old German-Russian man has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out the bomb attack against a bus carrying members of the Borussia Dortmund football team, prosecutors said.

Team Ireland have added four more medals to their treasure chest at the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria, bringing their current total to eight.

Three employees with Swedish broadcaster SVT have been sentenced to community work after being convicted of human smuggling for bringing a 15-year-old Syrian boy to Sweden during the 2015 migrant influx that swept across Europe.

United States Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III completed his line-up for this weekend's matches on home soil with Europe when he named Tour Championship runner-up Ryan Moore as his 12th and final team member writes Simon Lewis.

One change for one Cork team and two for the other as the pair put the final preparations to their do-or-die championship clashes at the weekend.

Shane O’Neill has returned to Cork’s starting line-up for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final against Galway while Alan Cadogan drops out of the side.

David Cameron has blamed getting his favourite football team wrong on “brain fade”.

Munster A coach Mick O’Driscoll makes four personnel changes from last weekend’s British & Irish Cup for this afternoon’s clash with Worcester Warriors (Sixways, 3pm).

England have given a vote of confidence to the players beaten in painful circumstances by France by selecting the same matchday squad for Saturday’s clash with Scotland.