He’s been forced to call time on his rugby career at 28, but Leinster back Luke Fitzgerald is glad of one thing - to be retiring as a “one-club man”.

One wouldn’t want to meet Antonio Conte in a dark alley on a dark night, writes John Leicester.

Manager Joachim Low maintains Germany should have no ‘Italy complex’ as they prepare for Saturday’s Euro 2016 quarter-final in Bordeaux.

Former Console boss Paul Kelly and his wife and son spent almost €500,000 on designer clothes, foreign trips, groceries, and other expenses between 2012 and 2014, an RTÉ investigation has claimed.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

There are growing fears Luke Fitzgerald is about to announce his retirement from rugby due to injury.

Rory McIlroy is looking to kick out of neutral and hit top gear as he aims to transform a “B-minus” season into an A-plus campaign at this week’s PGA Championship.

Yesterday morning the racing world woke to the sad news that John Thomas McNamara had passed away. The 41-year-old former leading amateur, who suffered a horrific fall from Galaxy Rock in the Kim Muir Challenge Cup at the Cheltenham Festival of 2013, lost the one battle he could never win.

So we have arrived at that point in the professional golf schedule that generated so much consternation months ago, even going back to 2015.

England’s aim of supplanting New Zealand as world champions in 2019 has moved a step closer after a new agreement was finalised between the Aviva Premiership clubs and Twickenham.

Russia made it to Rio by the skin of its teeth and it may see Putin suspend his bid for military glory, writes Nina L Khrushcheva

He just may be the most realistic dreamer or the most idealistic realist in Gaelic football.

We delve into the past ahead of the final major championship of the season.

Boris Johnson has always been a controversial figure that provokes a strong reaction from the public and this is exactly the kind of thing we are talking about.