6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (775+ words) “Why the hell isn’t that a red card?” That sums up the bevy of text messages that pinged into my phone immediately after Luke Jacobson had launched himself, off his feet in a totally reckless fashion, at Josh van der…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (845+ words) Andy Farrell was in his element, arguably the chattiest and happiest he’s been at any of his team announcement briefings all season. He had eagerly accepted the opportunity to digress into a prolonged segue about his beloved rugby league and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (664+ words) The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) served 13 closure orders and one prohibition order against food outlets in June, including one where live cockroaches were found in a trap. Al Huda Grocery, located at 72A Summerhill, Dublin 1, was issued with a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (493+ words) A Co Sligo waste collector died after suffering a severe brain injury as a result of a fall from the back of a “defective” bin lorry, an inquest has heard. Daniel Meehan (51), of Mountain View, Tubbercurry, died in Beaumont Hospital…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (563+ words) Allegations that a physiotherapist patted or lightly spanked a young woman patient, when it was clinically inappropriate for him to do so, and referred to her as his girlfriend, have not been proven, a fitness-to-practise committee has decided. The patient,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (291+ words) Are you a cyclist who has experienced less-than-favourable interactions with other road users on Irish roads? On Monday, Irish Times contributor Sarah Moss wrote about a near miss she had with an SUV, and how “cyclists are somehow to make…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (602+ words) When is a kick not a kick, or a headbutt not a headbutt? It’s a topic which is bound to be vigorously argued wherever rugby debates are held. It’s coming up to 60 years since my former headmaster dismissed the famous…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (771+ words) Rocky Kenneally found himself at a Leinster summer camp in King’s Hospital. It was a present from his Irish grandmother. Kenneally lived in Marbella, so perhaps part of granny’s incentive was to get something that required spending time in these…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (774+ words) A brilliant opening quarter to the match in which he ran through the Bulls time and again, creating a platform from which others benefited in the try-scoring stakes. The visitors got a little joy later in the game, but his…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (604+ words) Driven into every scout from their first day of Beavers is the motto: ‘Be Prepared’. Four teenagers from 5th Port Dollymount Sea Scouts in north Dublin are good examples of this as, with quick thinking, they saved a man stricken in…...