One of Ireland’s best-known priests has revealed the anguish the Church’s requirement of mandatory clerical celibacy has caused him.

Roberto Mancini will be able to oversee the remainder of Manchester City’s Champions League group matches at close quarters after escaping disciplinary action for confronting a referee.

As Hu Jintao steps down as Communist Party leader, he is the subject of rare and sharp criticism, writes Charles Hutzler

Manchester City 2 Ajax 2

It’s hard to believe that four years have passed since Declan Kidney was handed the poisoned chalice of having to beat Argentina to retain a top-eight IRB seeding a few weeks prior to the 2011 World Cup pool draw.

Arsenal 0 Blackburn 1

Psychiatrist to make calls on match ‘fitness’

The battle between high street and high-end played out at London Fashion Week, with John Rocha and Mulberry vying for catwalk dominance against Whistles, Topshop Unique, and Rihanna for River Island, reports the Irish Examiner's Annmarie O’Connor.

There’s a famously hilarious episode of The Simpsons in which the Italian mafia are fighting with their Japanese counterparts outside 742 Evergreen Terrace.

Last Tuesday was a mixed bag for grapplers.

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Cobh Ramblers 5 Wexford Youths 0

The last week has seen an unusual amount of soul-searching at Barcelona, as the Catalan club prepares to try and overcome a 2-0 first-leg deficit in Tuesday’s Champions League last 16 second leg at home to AC Milan.

Coming into Saturday’s Six Nations face-off at the Aviva Stadium, it was always going to be a case of who blinked first.

Waterford 0-15 Cork 1-12

Clare 0-18 Galway 1-13

Limerick 3-10 Carlow 1-13

Huzzah for the boys from Longford. Huzzah!

I’M in St Mary’s Abbey, at Glencairn, near Lismore, Co Waterford, which is home to 36 monastic nuns.