And so the great day dawns on a bitterly divided nation, writes Enda McEvoy. England are in a World Cup semi-final and the bitterly divided nation is… Ireland, of course. Are we, on the day Harry and Megs visited Croke Park, cheering for them?

The contest between France striker Antoine Griezmann and Uruguay captain Diego Godin will be a feature of today’s quarter-final clash in Nizhny Novgorod. It also brings together Atletico Madrid club colleagues whose friendship is deep and personal.

Not many managers can claim to have sent a referee into early retirement but Mourinho was accused of precisely that in one of his first European adventures with Chelsea.

A UK doctor prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs and claimed to have given similar treatments to other elite sports athletes, medical watchdogs heard today.

Spring may be busily springing in Ireland, but in the remote Russian state of Tuva, which borders Mongolia, temperatures are still struggling to top minus 20 in the daytime as the largely nomadic population awaits the sun’s return.

Dan Gosling struck a dramatic late equaliser against his former club as Bournemouth battled back from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Newcastle.

Tipperary 2-11 Waterford 2-6

Britain will be a "different" country after Brexit, Theresa May has said.