Brad Pitt has been hospitalised in Los Angeles with a severe bout of influenza.

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Irish manager Mick McCarthy says Ireland have given themselves a real chance of qualifying from group D after their 1-1 draw with Germany.

Laois will meet Mayo in the All Ireland Senior Women’s Final after they defeated the Ulster champions Tyrone at Pearse Park in Longford today.

Loyalists are threatening to step up their protest outside a Catholic primary school in north Belfast after eight loyalists were arrested.

Residents of the loyalist Glenbryn estate in north Belfast have resumed their protest against Catholic children walking to school through the Protestant estate.

Senior Catholic Church clerics who fail to blow the whistle on suspected paedophile priests will be reported to the authorities, a religious watchdog warned today.

IT says much about Tiger Woods’ current form that his appearance on the early US PGA Championship leaderboard came as something of a surprise at Whistling Straits last night.

WITH 49 days to go until the Ryder Cup, the hotly-contested matches between the USA and Europe at Celtic Manor should quite rightly be exercising the minds of rival captains Corey Pavin and Colin Montgomerie.

MISSION not quite accomplished but getting awfully close. That has to be the verdict for Rory McIlroy after the curtain came down on the 2010 major championships.

MILLIONS of Greeks around the world, from New York to Melbourne, erupted in joyful celebration after Greece beat hosts Portugal in the Euro 2004 final on Sunday.

DOES Fungi, the famous Dingle dolphin, speak with a Kerry accent?

Paul McGinley considers himself “only a little voice” – but he is determined to keep speaking his mind about the length of courses in the hope somebody listens.

The sigh of relief which swept round at Elland Road at the final whistle was palpable as free-scoring Mark Viduka’s latest two-goal salvo virtually guaranteed Peter Reid's Leeds Premiership football for next season.

The Taoiseach has refused to be drawn on reports public servants may face a cut in pensions.

Ireland left Wembley with the win this evening, but one of the Romanian players left with a prize of his own - a brand new fiancee.

“The crowd were amazing, I wish we put on a better performance for them.”