Villa have confirmed the 26-year-old midfielder will join them on July 1 after four years at the King Power Stadium.

Ronan O’Gara’s La Rochelle eased their way past a determined Bordeaux 24-13 in front of a 40,000-crowd in San Sebastian to set up a showpiece final against Toulouse

Munster lock Jean Kleyn could be set to feature for South Africa in the World Cup despite the 29-year-old having played five Tests for Ireland

It will only be the second game he has attended since his investment vehicle, the Abu Dhabi United Group, purchased City in 2008.

Damien Duff plucked a Theodore Roosevelt quote from his library when urging his Shelbourne players to embrace rather than fear the club takeover by the Turkish Simon Cowell

Pauw feels she’s perfected the art of juggling workload, periodisation and downtime over the coming weeks as the countdown intensifies.

Stratified nature of modern era makes comparing legacies difficult but the Manchester City manager has made his case

The 46-year-old will join up as part of John Herdman’s technical team alongside Richard Shaw

Michael O'Halloran won two All-Irelands in his five years playing for Clare, a haul he likens to winning the lottery. Last Sunday, his son Matthew won an All-Ireland minor title in Thurles. As the wheel turns, Michael sees a county now playing and working smart at all levels. 

Lautaro Martinez may not have shone at the World Cup like some of his Argentina team-mates but his influence for his club this season has been clear

More than 1 million tickets have been sold for the Women’s World Cup kicking off in Australia and New Zealand next month

Defender Aoife Mannion is the notable absence from the squad having picked up an injury in training for her club Manchester United recently

The former Cardiff and Dragons lock, who had been playing in Japan, was recalled by Wales head coach Warren Gatland following two years out of Test rugby

When Alf-Inge Haaland made his Nottingham Forest debut in February 1994, it was the latest step in a quiet revolution that helped define the Premier League’s course

What Clare don’t quite need from Tony Kelly is a repeat of last year’s Munster final when he hit 0-13 of their 0-29, 0-7 of it from play. Instead...

These days my personal hierarchy of revulsion is determined by how morally bankrupt a club’s owners are, rather than more traditional factors such as local rivalries or whether or not Lee Bowyer was playing for them

Republic of Ireland international Niamh Fahey hasn’t ruled out the prospect of returning to a Gaelic football pitch at some point in the future

Joseph Fiennes says Gareth Southgate has “a steel spine” as he prepares to step into the role of the England football manager in a new play at the National Theatre.

If the FAI lurched on financial bankruptcy in 2019, the €863m, 15-year blueprint unfurled yesterday, first flagged by the Irish Examiner on Tuesday, confirms they are infrastructurally destitute.

Rory McIlroy was nonetheless relieved to get back to some semblance of normality after he shot a one-under-par 71 on the opening day of the RBC Canadian Open.