Former Dublin county manager Garda Paul Caffrey told a former player of his it would be a “good idea” to apologise after an alleged assault that took place during a league match, a court has heard.

Irish referee Alain Rolland’s final international before retirement will be a repeat of the infamous 2011 World Cup semi-final between Wales and France when he controversially sent off Sam Warburton.

BRIAN CODY last night defended his Kilkenny team’s discipline in the face of Eoin Larkin’s sending off and a couple of other extreme exchanges involving his players during their 0-22 to 1-7 defeat to Dublin in yesterday’s Allianz Hurling Division 1 final.

MANCHESTER CITY and Manchester United are unlikely to be punished for the ugly scenes which marred the end of their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Saturday.

Hundreds of thousands of people, waving red flags and blowing whistles, marched through Rome today to protest government plans to reform Italy’s generous pension system, which economists say can no longer sustain itself.

As a teenager, author Emma Healey’s depression almost resulted in her being sectioned. She draws on those dark days for her follow up to ‘Elizabeth Is Missing’, writes Rowena Walsh.

Rory McIlroy will begin Friday’s PGA Championship second round five shots off the pace but satisfied to have come through a testing examination of the left ankle he injured just five weeks ago.

Tom Murphy’s emigration trilogy is “an inner history of Ireland,” Garry Hynes tells Alan O’Riordan

WHISTLING STRAITS, the venue for this week’s US PGA Championship, takes some finding.