Former Irish football player and manager Patrick O’Connell was last night officially honoured by Barcelona before the La Liga giants’ home clash with Real Betis.

Martin O’Neill has admitted he still gets “goosebumps” thinking about the Shane Long goal which earned Ireland a celebrated victory against Germany at the Aviva Stadium in October and helped pave the way for qualification for France 2016

The more Toulouse have to spend, the more they fail. A club that doesn’t know what it takes to deal with a shortfall, keep falling short, writes Peter Jackson.

Diarmuid O’Flynn still wants to burn bondholders, except now he aims to take his fight to the Dáil, writes Michael Clifford

You can say what you like about Louis van Gaal but give him one thing: he’s certainly a man who knows how to make history.

When it comes to coaching children, the focus needs to be on play and developing good movement skills, discovers Siobain Peters during her training course 

The death occurred in his native Limerick yesterday of Paddy Reid, one of the country’s most celebrated rugby players.

Narrow winner of the race in Cork last year, the Willie Mullins-trained Felix Yonger gained his second Kerry Group Hilly Way Chase success when the rescheduled Grade 2 event proved the feature of yesterday’s eight-race card in Navan.

Twenty years, 421 games, six titles.