Beautiful landscapes, outdoor activities, medieval architecture — Transylvania has it all. But with Halloween around the corner, Eimear Ryan visited with one thing in mind — vampires.

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Paul Scholes may have been premature last night when he suggested that Jose Mourinho’s services should have been dispensed with at the weekend but, after the boos that greeted this insipid and wholly uninspiring goalless Champions League draw with mid-table Spanish opposition, it is hard to see any other fate befalling the Manchester United manager, sooner rather than later.

Ryder Cup vice-captain Graeme McDowell believes the key to success over the United States came down to players treating each other as equals and “leaving their egos at the door”.

Dan Hummel has lived, mostly alone, in his rugged West Cork sanctuary for 46 years. On a recent visit, Brian Keane gets an insight into his life.

Rockstar is back for a few dollars more. On October 26, it’ll be riding into town with a big name and collecting its bounty.

Some Brazilian soccer fans didn't let 9,000 miles stop them from celebrating their team's victory in Dublin last night.

Juventus star Juan Cuadrado has vowed his side will learn the lessons of their painful defeat to Manchester United as they look to seal their place in the last 16 of the Champions League.

The sound-bites coming out of the Gaelic Grounds late on Sunday afternoon gave the firmest impression that anything other than All-Ireland club glory for Dr Crokes on March 17 next year would see this campaign written off as a disappointment.

Here, Michael Clifford explains what the Charleton Tribunal is all about.

Justin Rose has backed Pádraig Harrington to be Europe’s next Ryder Cup captain.

They’ll meet again and we know where and we know when.

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Johann van Graan has a career in diplomacy if the coaching thing doesn't work out.

Kerry’s dominance of Munster football has seen the province’s championships lose their spark, accepts Munster Council CEO Kieran Leddy.

Munster’s season can now truly begin. The drama, tension and excitement that this pool stage of the Heineken Champions Cup has provided may well have kept us gripped, absorbed and thrilled through the past four months but negotiating it and coming out the other side with a ticket punched to the knockout stages is the province’s oft-stated minimum requirement.

There wasn’t much harmony between Tyrone and Armagh, who breathed new life into an old rivalry during a fiery Dr McKenna Cup final on Saturday night, yet afterwards the managers were united in delight at the scrapping of the handpass rule.

Irish golf sang with one voice at the weekend as Shane Lowry buried the demons of his 2016 US Open disappointment and saluted the GUI and the ILGU for voting overwhelmingly for the creation of one governing body.

UCD were indebted to a brace of late frees from Ronan Hayes as they recued a share of the spoils with NUIG after their entertaining Fitzgibbon Cup Group A encounter at David Billings Park.

The match programme was titled ‘Legends for Liam’ and the billing certainly wasn’t misleading as some of the most famous sons of Manchester United, Glasgow Celtic, and Irish football came out of retirement to honour the memory of Liam Miller.