Next season’s European Tour – starting in South Africa on Thursday – will feature a minimum of 47 tournaments, including six new ones, and will once again culminate in the Dubai World Championship.

I’m not sure if I ever noticed before that Father’s Day falls around Bloomsday.

ROYALTY has set trends and led fashionable society for millennia.

AROUND this time every year it’s difficult to escape the various sporting lists of ‘ones to watch’ for the next 12 months.

Summer is almost upon us but forgive me if I’m not of a sunny disposition. The standard of hurling refereeing is slipping and I fear it could have a major bearing on what we see in the coming weeks.

Have you refereed outside the country before?

Works by some of the world’s great photographers have been gathered for a new exhibition at the National Gallery, writes Marjorie Brennan

When Ireland last fielded their front line troops at the Aviva Stadium, against New Zealand in November, the rapturous response from players and fans alike at the final whistle could not have been more exuberant. Unbridled joy. Kings of the world.