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Friday 27 November 2020
Ireland’s midfield maestro joins Western Sydney Wanderers FC as a guest player.
New crew of Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy and fellow Corkman Ronan Byrne are also nominated.
Mike Currane’s Irish Banshees won five games from five, and didn’t concede a single score.
Ireland got The Vera Era underway with a hard-fought 3-2 Euro 2021 qualifier win over Ukraine last night.
Ireland’s Ciara Mageean gave an inspiring interview after her World Championships 1,500m final.
Ailish Considine is hopeful she will get another shot with the Adelaide Crows next year after an impressive debut season Down Under.
The Paris-based side rallied from 13 points down to defeat Bordeaux Bègles in the Top14.
The Dubliner powered into the semi-finals this morning.
Tadhg Furlong is primed and ready to go for an individual battle with two of his Lions team-mates tomorrow.
Harrington hit eight birdies throughout the front and back nine.
What makes you most proud to be Irish?
Sights, landscapes and beauty spots that’ll make you proud to be Irish.
Jimmy Halpin is confident that Irish boxing’s newest star can bring home the world title.
Let us know what you thought of this week’s episode.
Tell us what you thought.
There’s a surprising amount of players on the list already.
What did you make of it?
Gary and Paul O’Donovan have been crowned European champions in the lightweight men’s double sculls in Germany.
Dubliner Nicole Lynch is part of an exclusive club as she takes to the track in Spain this weekend.
Centenary, which gathered together some of Ireland’s most talented musicians and performers, gave everyone goosebumps.
There’s a lot at stake at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The company employs 340 people.
Well. That escalated quickly.
It’s 62% FOR and 38% AGAINST – as Ireland gives a big YES to same-sex marriage.
The Ireland captain has lauded the influence of Joe Schmidt in turning around a team that finished fifth last year.
The grammar Gardaí have been notified.
The packets feature a story about an Irish man who created the salt and vinegar flavour with a Union Jack printed underneath and Niall Mullins wasn’t having any of it.
Which part of your local heritage are you most proud of? We want to know.
“He has achieved all that he deserves,” said the President.
From James Joyce to the White House.
It was inevitable, wasn’t it?
We’ve done well for a small island nation, writes Mark Boyle from Japan, but we shouldn’t overstate our sense of exceptionalism: it doesn’t serve us well abroad.
After 34 arrests at last year’s parade, the St Patrick’s Day parade in Hoboken, New Jersey has been cancelled. The mayor had criticised the “unacceptable” levels of property damage and crime on the day.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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