As a world-class athlete, a high-performance diet was always part of Derval O’Rourke’s regime, but now as she is about to become a mum, she is focussed on healthy eating during pregnancy, says Clodagh Finn.

Scotland 1 Northern Ireland 0: A late header by substitute Christophe Berra gave Scotland a narrow but deserved 1-0 win over Northern Ireland in their Vauxhall International Challenge match at Hampden Park.

Drinking three alcoholic drinks a day can cause liver cancer, research has suggested.

The emergence of IRFU “Project Player” Jared Payne as midfield successor to Brian O’Driscoll has whetted CJ Stander’s appetite to play for Ireland.

Clermont Auvergne 27 Northampton Saints 5: Nick Abendanon hopes his stellar evening against Northampton has offered England additional reason to soften their stance on selecting overseas-based players.

Johnny Sexton had suffered a few knockouts in his time but never one like this — sitting on a chair in a Paris suburb just off the peripherique.

Arsenal 4 Liverpool 1: Brendan Rodgers always talks a good game, but now his Liverpool players have to give voice to his optimism if they are going to save their season after this humbling defeat.

Here are eight projects that could rejuvenate Cork City.

Throughout the centuries, Cork has enjoyed a bustling level of commercial activity and trade, sitting on what is regarded as the principal port in the south-west of Ireland, writes Theo Cullinane CEO of BAM Ireland 

JUST over a week ago Communications Minister Alex White proposed that Six Nations rugby be put under the free-to-air umbrella designed to ensure free access to events designated culturally significant.

LESS than a week before Rory McIlroy possibly writes his name into golfing immortality, the world No. 1 confesses he is no longer in love with the game.

It’s as if he’s always been the ideal backup to the stars.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers accepts his side cannot afford not to turn up in another big game if their top-four ambitions are to survive.

Champions Toulon take on Wasps in the last eight of the European Champions Cup at Stade Félix Mayol tomorrow afternoon (kick-off 3.15pm)

Record-breaking Grade One winner Hurricane Fly is among a stellar entry of 14 for the Doom Bar Aintree Hurdle at the Liverpool track on Thursday.

Following last week’s brilliant run in the semi-finals of the Con and Annie Kirby Memorial at Limerick, it’s hard to look beyond Rural Hawaii in tonight’s decider for the €80,000-to-the-winner stake.

It must be 15 years now since sportswriter Paul Little, noting a general disenchantment with the state of Gaelic football, compassionately pointed out a handful of small but significant tweaks that would fix the game overnight.

Met Éireann has given us the green light for dry weather over the coming bank holiday weekend, a pensioner had to be rescued from a freezing canal in Limerick today after he fell in taking part in a massive clean up and Margaret Hickey tells us why she is voting no in the upcoming marriage equality referendum. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime.

It’s less than 500 days to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, but if the city learned lessons from the 2014 World Cup experience, it’s the speculators who are profiting, not the citizens.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger hopes Theo Walcott’s frustrating night with England in Turin will not leave the forward’s confidence “damaged” over the closing weeks of the season.