Soccer

Slovakia playoff on back burner as UEFA look for way out of this

Any Irish fans hoping for the kind of white smoke from a UEFA conference call today will allow them to finally save the date and book their flights to Bratislava for that Euro 2020 playoff will be sorely disappointed.

April 2020

News

Doctors face 24-hour shifts as hospitals feel strain

Doctors in the country's largest hospital are having to work 24-hour shifts during the coronavirus crisis.

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GAA

GAA to give clubs and counties breathing space

Clubs and counties will be given additional time to repay internal loans and membership affiliations in the coming weeks and months, county GAA chairpersons were assured via conference call yesterday.

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Soccer

Voiding the 19/20 season could have dire consequences

As Premier League officials pored over documents when the coronavirus crisis first began to spread, a simple but stark reality became apparent: there was absolutely no provision for a situation like this.

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News

Probe after woman is found dead at house

Gardai are investigating after a woman's body was discovered in "unexplained circumstances" at a house in Killiney.

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News

Grieving families and friends can't properly mourn devoted couple

The families of a popular midlands couple who died just three days apart are coming to terms with having to hold their funerals without their many friends in attendance because of Covid-19 restrictions.

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News

Founder's delight as fund to feed hero workers hits €550k

A group set up to help feed frontline workers battling coronavirus has hit more than €550,000 in donations.

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News

TDs who left Dail received total of €586,000 in exit payouts this year

More than €586,000 was handed out in termination pay and lump sums in January and February to TDs who retired or lost their seats at the general election.

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Soccer

FAI facing an anxious wait

FAI officials should find out today if they will have to decide whether Mick McCarthy or Stephen Kenny should manage Ireland for their Euro 2020 play-off.

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News

Fraud up by a quarter as pandemic profiteers prey on home workers

Gardai are dealing with a significant upsurge in fraud offences, which have increased by 26pc as crime gangs target people online.

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News

No more than 10 people should attend funerals of loved ones - Government

The Government has said that immediate family members can still attend funeral services of loved ones.

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Courts

Garda's 'head was slashed' in alleged kitchen knife attack

A young man slashed a garda across the head with a kitchen knife when the officer went to investigate a reported stabbing on a Dublin street, it has been alleged.

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Sport

Walk on - with hope in your heart

To carry him to a place beyond Shawshank's grim and forbidding watchtowers, Andy Dufresne allowed the golden Pacific sands of Zihuatanejo play on an endless loop in his mind.

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Rugby

Scrum-half ready for front line

Back in the summer of 2016 when Angus Lloyd took Ulster up on their offer of a development contract, the Dubliner made the tough decision to put his medical studies on hold.

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News

17 more virus deaths as Covid-19 starts to take toll on hospitals

Ireland has suffered its darkest day in the fight against the coronavirus with a record number of 17 deaths and 325 new cases of the infection.

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Horse Racing

Mulvany admits racing programme might require 'complete overhaul'

Sportspeople face more questions than answers amid the coronavirus crisis given the uncertainty about when competition will resume, but things are even more complicated for trainers right now.

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News

'Virus killed our dad, and now we fear for our mum too', says grieving son

A heartbroken son who lost his father to Covid-19 has described his fears for his mother, who is also battling the killer virus after contracting it in the same nursing home.

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March 2020

News

TD fails in bid to stop 'fast-track' apartment blocks in Santry

An Bord Pleanala has granted planning permission for contentious plans for 331 "fast-track" apartments at Santry in north Dublin - in spite of opposition from joint leader of the Social Democrats Roisin Shortall.

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News

'Major criminal' sought after man knifed 'in revenge for flat burglary'

A manhunt was continuing last night for a major north inner city criminal who is suspected of stabbing a man in the city centre in revenge for an earlier burglary.

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Soccer

Rashford given green light to step up his rehabilitation

Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has been given the green light to step up his rehabilitation following his back injury.

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News

Minister denies nursing homes' claim he vowed to give bailout

Private nursing home operators said they have been promised more staff, extra personal protection equipment (PPE) and a financial bailout to tackle coronavirus.

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Other Sports

Impact of moving the Tokyo games to next year

The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have been re-arranged to take place in July and August next year.

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Other Sports

Katie fight refixed for July date

Katie Taylor's world title fight against Amanda Serrano has been provisionally rescheduled for Saturday, July 4 in the Manchester Arena.

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Courts

Gardai were forced to pepper spray dad who wanted a fight

A drunk father-of-one who told gardai to "come on and fight me" was pepper sprayed and arrested for "lashing out at authority".

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News

'Framework' for FF-FG government next week - Varadkar

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he hopes a framework for how a coalition of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail would work can be agreed by next week.

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Sport

Playing by the rules

Contradictory as it may seem, we've come a long way in a few short and surreal weeks. Ireland, a nation of casual rule-breakers, has willingly accepted the imposition of Orwellian restrictions on our freedoms of choice and movement.

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Soccer

Keena: playing behind closed doors is not an option for lower league teams

He had the dubious honour of taking part in one of the games played on the last weekend of organised football in England, so Irish striker Aidan Keena is getting used to the notion of normality being put to one side.

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Sport

Irish Open the latest victim of shutdown

The Dubai Duty Free Irish Open has become the latest European Tour tournament to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Sport

Philly: This is a mental test

Philly McMahon has warned that the current 'lockdown' measures could yet have dangerous consequences for the mental health of Irish citizens.

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GAA

'I had to lay myself off'

Last Friday week, Philly McMahon laid himself off. A seven-time All-Ireland champion, double All-Star, winner of five National League medals and a Sports Book of the Year award, McMahon is also CEO of BeDo7 Fitness and one of its five full-time employees.