Ireland coach Darren Smith admits there is plenty of scope for improvement as his side continue their Olympic qualification campaign with a clash with Turkey at UCD today.

Rugby World Cup chiefs have warned fans not to buy tickets from unofficial sources after it emerged a single ticket for the final had been advertised for £59,000.

Winger Dougie Fife believes Scotland have what it takes to overcome Ireland on Saturday as they are too good a team to go without a win in the Six Nations.

IT wasn’t a funereal atmosphere on the ferry on Sunday, but it was sad and solemn. 

Rugby World Cup chiefs have warned fans not to buy tickets from unofficial sources amid exhorbitant pricing on ticket-sale websites.

Before the World Cup, Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom said that it would be a "failure" if Ireland missed out on the quarter-finals.

Our pundits give their thoughts on the weekend’s big Premiership games

Barcelona’s big name attackers took much of the focus during the Catalan outfit’s Champions League last 16 first leg at Manchester City late last month.

Hockey: Profligacy is an issue for Ireland but it’s still a case of a job well done so far.

Late Saturday afternoon. The second Six Nations game of the weekend is still very much in the balance in Twickenham, but another Englishman is the name on everyone’s lips in Cardiff. 

England 25 Scotland 13

If the adage that you learn more in defeat holds true on this occasion then this reversal could well serve Ireland’s World Cup cause better in the long run.

Let’s rewind two weeks.

Captain Blackadder: It’s the same plan that we used last time and the 17 times before that.

ON a visit to the royally-endorsed English Market, in Cork, globetrotting TV chef Rick Stein was pulled, as if by magnetic force, to the seafood corner, as are many.

Tracy Ryan uses edible ingredients in her Bia Beauty natural skin-care products, because the skin absorbs 60% of what is put on it. Her business began in her spare room and now sells to 100 stores nationwide.

Ever since they first turned out for a rumble on the left bank of the Taff, Ireland have usually made a point of picking something up in Cardiff. 

RBS U20 6 Nations

A man left scarred after his wife poured scalding water over him has said: “Being attacked by a woman is nothing to be ashamed of.”

“The biggest game in Ireland’s cricket history,” is what Niall O’Brien calls tomorrow night’s shoot-out with Pakistan for a quarter-final berth.