There is little doubt that the sliotar is being passed without a release or an obvious one from the hand. The rulebook insists on a 'definite striking action of a hand'

When politics and legal cases are factored out, English football was left facing one simple fact: a win on Wednesday will have seen City overcome an eight-point deficit to Arsenal in just 27 days.

Farrell can bring 33 players to the World Cup later this year and he has used 39 in those nine games against the world’s top teams going back to their evisceration of Italy in Dublin last February.

Howe was left with mixed emotions after watching Newcastle battle back to earn a 1-1 draw at old club Bournemouth

The Saints had an extra player for two-thirds of Saturday’s fixture after Mario Lemina’s controversial dismissal.

A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the black teenager’s brutal lynching.

A wild crowd, Kerry Katona, and a surprise vow renewal — it can only be the Late Late Show's Valentine's Day special 

What if the charges stick, one day? Should Martin Tyler’s commentary be struck from the record? Should we stop watching it? Should we stop drinking it in?

Champions Ireland maintained their winning start to the Under-20 Six Nations with another tense victory over France, this time in front of a sell-out crowd in Cork on Friday night

Derry City gained a significant confidence boost prior to the start of the new season having claimed their first President's Cup title when defeating Shamrock Rovers at the Brandywell

France will be more disciplined than last week but may be about to meet their match in an Ireland side that can not only roll with the punches but throw a few haymakers themselves

By the time the Aviva clock hits 2.25pm, the La Rochelle head coach tells us he’ll have a good idea where the victory is going.

Blue never seems to date and right now is one of the most popular choices for an all-over colour-drenching look

Songwriter whose hits, including 'I Say a Little Prayer' and 'Walk on By', became classics of easy-listening pop

The roars from the stands in Páirc Uí Chaoimh last Saturday were laced with hope and desire and a desperation to return to the top of the tree

McIlroy has won two of his last three events and has not finished outside the top four in his last seven

UCC, having come up three short at home to UL in the first round four weeks ago, now have the opportunity to reverse that result in next Wednesday’s decider.

Mount Sion man Kirwan may not get the credit he deserves for the crucial three-pointer which ultimately separated the sides as he was wearing number 24 at the time.

Crescent know they will face Christian Brothers College, Cork, for a place in the final.

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