The mood was understandably jubilant in the Limerick camp and for manager Leo O’Connor to get the three-point win was hugely satisfying.

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Ex-Anglo chief executive David Drumm has claimed his bank did not lend recklessly, was always open to regulation and that financial institutions have been unfairly blamed for the crash.

One of the newly-established opposition parties has vowed to jail “reckless” bank directors for up to 10 years, pay whistle-blowers a percentage of any money retrieved and create a special corporate criminal court to tackle white-collar crime policies — if elected to government.

Dundalk 0 BATE Borisov 0 (BATE Borisov win 2-1 on aggregate): Raging anticipation gave way to crushing anti-climax in Oriel Park last night as Dundalk failed to get the one goal required to keep them in the Champions League.

In the middle of his pre-Munster final press briefing, Derek McGrath was accused of being a hurling nerd.

When coach John Kavanagh’s fighters prepare to enter a cage and go to war with an opponent, they rarely stop to think about the pain.

Derek McGrath mentioned it in passing last week but it’s a game worth revisiting.

Before you can read the game, you have to know the alphabet. Ahead of the Tipp-Waterford Munster final, Larry Ryan studies the curriculum of this fixture’s glorious history.

She is a piebald border collie called Shelley, seven years old, and she wears a jingling harness mounted with bells and lights.

The finance minister puts on his helmet, still sporting his characteristic grin, as crowds try to get close enough to take selfies.

It’s easy to write off a player like Graeme McDowell following his stuttering start to 2015.

An old religion teacher of ours sure knew how to make an introduction. 

There are some words that look out of place sharing the same sentence. Jose Mourinho and modest. Paul O’Connell and ordinary. Kilkenny and football.

Of the three televised games this weekend, the most difficult match to officiate was the Donegal v Derry Ulster semi-final in Clones.

Paris menswear shows reached a colourful 1980s-infused climax yesterday, the last day in the spring-summer 2016 collections that saw the City of Light glistening in a summer heat wave.

“To rock up” is one of those great new verbs. It came to mind watching Bryan Sheehan approach each of the five frees he kicked on Sunday.

Eoin Reilly was intent on not getting caught. He’d retrieve his picture from the O’Moore Park turf and slip away from the sprinkling of Laois fans gathered close to goal.