Ulster lose Jacob Stockdale and Mike Lowry to injury, meaning Werner Kok comes on to the right wing and Zac Ward switches to the left as Stewart Moore starts at full-back.

Spare a thought for poor Oedipus, the mythological head-the-ball who murdered his father and married his mother. It was all a bit of an accident, really; a clumsy, ill-advised decision for which the ...

Minnie Hauk will break from stall one as she bids to provide Aidan O’Brien with a third win in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. With Ryan Moore still on the sidelines, Christophe Soumillon continues in ...

A Galway-born poet who was aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla has been detained by Israeli forces when the boat she was travelling on was intercepted on its final stretch towards Gaza strip.

Irish Formula 2 driver Alex Dunne has announced his departure from McLaren’s driver development programme with immediate effect, bringing an end to a short but high-profile spell with the Formula 1 ...

Heimir Hallgrimsson says he opted to stay loyal to the Ireland players who flopped so badly in the last game of the World Cup qualifiers in Armenia to give them a chance to redeem themselves in the ...

Jack Moorhouse and Owen Elding have missed out on this month’s Ireland U-21 squad as their paperwork is yet to be completed, but the FAI remain hopeful the pair will be eligible soon.

How does the menstrual cycle affect an athlete’s performance? One obvious answer to that question comes to mind: Period.

Donegal County Council has passed motion calling for a full and transparent audit to be carried out at every quarry in the county in light of the defective concrete block crisis.

True cost of VAT cut in Budget 2026 laid bare by Fiscal Council Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news PAYE workers could have received €600 extra a year ...

An Garda Síochána appeal to the public for information on the identity of skeletal remains discovered at a construction site on the Midleton to Youghal Greenway in Cork on the 5th January 2021.

A book of evidence is not yet ready in the case of two people charged following a fatal hit-and-run on St Stephen’s Day.