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‘I knew he was good but f***ing hell, he’s in the special category now’ – How Tipp’s Jake Morris has changed his game

Published: July 2, 2025 19:00

Tipperary are trailing Cork by 11 points with the 14-man Premier being beaten all ends up in the second round of this year’s Munster SHC when Jake Morris beavers down the middle of the Rebel defence in the 49th minute.

RĂșaidhrĂ­ O’Connor: Lions must ignore the big scorelines and home in on their flaws

Published: July 2, 2025 17:15

Australian rugby is hoping this Lions tour can be the stimulus to spur a revival in rugby union Down Under and there was excitement in Brisbane about the coverage around this warm-up game and the huge crowd that turned up to see the Queensland Reds take on


‘I walked off the pitch with cocaine waiting for me in the dressing room’ – ex-Meath under-age player on his crippling drug addiction and path to recovery

Published: July 2, 2025 16:47

A GAA senior club manager and former Meath under-age player has revealed how he reached for cocaine in the dressing room after winning a county championship final while in the grip of addiction.

‘You think you have a God-given right to park in that spot,’ judge tells man as he jails him for gouging garda's car

Published: July 2, 2025 16:08

A fisherman who thought he had a “God-given right” to park in a public space outside his seaside home has been jailed for using a garden hoe to gouge a “dirty big scratch” into an off-duty garda's car.

Ireland summer tour verdict: Our team of experts on the key targets for the Portugal and Georgia games

Published: July 2, 2025 16:00

While the attention of many rugby fans this summer will be focused on the Lions tour of Australia, Ireland face into two international games this month which could have an impact of the future shape of the international squad.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs convicted on prostitution counts, but found not guilty of more serious sex trafficking charges

Published: July 2, 2025 14:26

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was found guilty on Wednesday of prostitution-related offenses, but cleared of more serious charges after a criminal trial in which two of the music mogul's former girlfriends testified that he physically and sexually abused them.

‘It will be very special’ – Young man running 168km from Clare to Sligo in memory of his late mother

Published: July 2, 2025 10:24

A young Co Sligo man is setting off on a mammoth challenge this Sunday, that will see him run from his late mother’s homeplace in Co Clare to Achonry Cemetery, where she is laid to rest.

Major data centre operator to pay teenager €15k after she was electrocuted while taking TikTok videos in derelict building

Published: July 2, 2025 10:02

A judge has approved a €15,000 settlement offer by a major data centre operator to a teenager who was electrocuted while taking TikTok videos in a derelict building the company owns near Lucan, Co Dublin.

Imelda May: ‘Places and people of character need to be protected, and capitalist money-making machines need to give back to The Liberties’

Published: July 2, 2025 04:30

Imelda May is a singer and actor from the Liberties in Dublin, where she now lives with her daughter. While she has been performing in the music space for decades, in recent years she has taken on more stage acting roles. She played Kathleen Behan, Brendan


‘What we have is wildly unique’ – how three siblings abandoned as babies found each other and the truth about their past

Published: July 2, 2025 04:30

It is the story of three newborn babies, abandoned in different parts of the country and left without any clue to their identity. Fifty years later, those three children found their way back to each other and embarked on an emotional journey to uncover the


‘OCD has been a constant shadow in my life for almost three decades, but I now have tools to manage it’

Published: July 2, 2025 04:30

It’s hard to describe living with an obsessive, compulsive mind that rarely gives you peace. Imagine a relentless roommate who never stops talking or wakes you in the early hours and blasts the TV. Some mornings I wake up and for the briefest moment, I


A flying visit to Shannon Airport: ‘We need to be innovative to survive because of our location’

Published: July 2, 2025 04:30

“People just find it easy,” says Niall Kearns. We’re standing by the soaring sculpture of rugby legend Paul O’Connell in Shannon Airport’s check-in area, and I’ve asked its director what makes the place stand out among Irish airports.

‘I definitely wouldn’t holiday in this part of Europe again at this time of year’ – how Irish tourists are coping in heatwave

Published: July 2, 2025 04:30

We all love jetting off on holiday to feel a little heat on our bones, but while any appearance of the sun is welcome at home, there are times when enough is enough.

Saoirse Hanley: Asking AI to recreate the dearly departed is playing with fire

Published: July 2, 2025 04:30

Realising I couldn’t remember what my late dad sounded like was like being stabbed anew with the dagger of grief. It happened years after he had passed away, so I went looking for home videos. I wanted to piece together my gappy memory of him and feel – if


HSE chief signals crackdown on ‘over-reliance’ on top-up funding to reduce waiting lists

Published: July 2, 2025 04:30

A curtailment on public hospitals using top-up funding to reduce waiting lists is planned after a review found “over-reliance” on this financial subsidy, HSE chief Bernard Gloster will tell the Oireachtas health committee today.

The Indo Daily: Claim Nikita Hand was assaulted by ex-partner dramatically dropped by Conor McGregor

Published: July 1, 2025 20:16

Lawyers for Conor McGregor dramatically withdrew a bid to introduce new evidence in his civil rape case appeal. Evidence included allegations made by Samantha O'Reilly and Steven Cummins – former neighbours of Ms Nikita Hand.

‘I’ve got an Irish passport’ – James McCabe reflects on his first Wimbledon experience, making a vow to be back at SW19

Published: July 1, 2025 16:54

James McCabe’s first experience of playing in the main draw at Wimbledon started to go wrong before he even arrived at the All England Club – but he has vowed to make sure he will be back next year.

Explainer: Who were new witnesses in Conor McGregor rape case and why was their evidence withdrawn?

Published: July 1, 2025 15:23

The credibility of claims by former neighbours suggesting Nikita Hand was assaulted in her home, hours after she maintained she was violently raped by Conor McGregor at a Dublin hotel, will not now be tested by a court.

Migrants will have to ‘run away from an alligator’ if they try escape Florida ‘Alcatraz’ detention centre – Donald Trump

Published: July 1, 2025 15:22

Donald Trump is aiming to turn a new immigration detention centre into a symbol of his border crackdown when he visits the site in a remote area of the Florida Everglades.

Two people who allegedly harassed man in ‘spying’ row between rival HR giants added as defendants

Published: July 1, 2025 14:42

Two people who were allegedly involved in surveilling and harassing the man at the centre of the "spying" row between two rival HR giants have been added as defendants in a High Court case related to the affair.

Spanish tourist raped in Dublin on New Year’s Eve asks to meet her attacker and ‘look him in the eyes’ via restorative justice

Published: July 1, 2025 14:06

A Spanish tourist who was raped in Dublin city centre during New Year's Eve celebrations has said she wants to meet her attacker in a safe space and ask him how he could have been so cruel.

‘I said, Geldof, this is gonna hurt but it’ll help, and scratched his back like a maniac. It gave him a sexual identity with the girls’– BP Fallon’s life and times

Published: July 1, 2025 11:00

“I’m amazed there hasn’t been a film about BP Fallon before,” says Bob Geldof, not far into BP Fallon: Rock’n’Roll Wizard. Anyone even vaguely ­familiar with the true adventures of Bernard Patrick Fallon, the man affectionately called Beep, would have to


‘Without warning, a warplane hit the place’ – at least 74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food

Published: July 1, 2025 06:26

Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza on Monday with airstrikes that left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire that left 23 dead as Palestinians tried to get desperately needed food aid, witnesses and health officials said.

The Indo Daily: Revisiting Grace Livingstone’s murder, as husband who sued Gardaí over probe into killing dies

Published: July 1, 2025 05:07

James Livingstone, who sued An Garda SĂ­ochĂĄna for branding him a suspect in the murder of his wife Grace Livingstone at their Co Dublin home in 1992, was laid to rest last week.

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