Jermain Defoe has warned Sunderland they cannot allow their barren run to continue for much longer if they are to avoid another survival scrap.

Ben Morgan insists England must summon Australia’s demons by using their pack to reopen old wounds at Twickenham.

Behind Stephen Cluxton, they are the best in the business. Just how vital will Rory Beggan and Paul Durcan be in tomorrow’s Ulster final?

Before the 2011 Rugby World Cup, the All Blacks did an exercise with control circles called The Attention Seeker. Two circles were drawn on a white board, one titled ‘Can Control’ and another titled ‘Can’t Control’.

Making a payment to a public official will be “presumed” to constitute corruption under upcoming legislation.

Though she is haunted by her forays into trad music at school, the Pulses of Tradition have now

Rory McIlroy looks unlikely to recover in time to defend his US PGA title in four weeks’ time but his backroom team appear hopeful he can make the FedEx Cup and the conclusion to the European Tour’s Race to Dubai.

Anyone with the faintest sliver of attachment to the GAA would readily appreciate the two most significant results to have emerged from Sunday’s list of football fixtures.

Oireachtas authorities are set to open an investigation into the cross-party banking inquiry after an internal whistleblower claimed some witnesses have received “preferential treatment” — including briefings over dinners days before public grillings.

South Wales Police have confirmed that former Connacht and All Black full-back Mils Muliaina has been formally charged with sexual assault.

Growing up in San Francisco, all Danny Culloty wanted to do was wear the red of Cork

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

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.