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Thursday 26 November 2020
‘In the second half, we showed what we were about,’ says Katie McCabe after German loss.
After her recent injury return, Ireland fullback Eimear Considine is relishing facing England.
‘The whole season hasn’t been the ideal set-up but I’m grateful to be out here and competing against the world’s best.’
Katie McCabe is thoroughly enjoying the fact that women’s football is riding the crest of a wave at the minute.
Conor McCormack feels Cork City have turned a corner after coming through a dismal run of form.
The controversial former British Olympian will face Shefat Isufi on the undercard of Warrington-Galahad at Wembley Arena.
Ernesto Valverde’s side grabbed a point at the San Siro on Tuesday to book their place in the last sixteen.
‘Amazing,’ she said. ‘It has been a lot of hard work and realisng that it has paid off is crazy.’
An interesting move for the Cork native.
Kildare are into the Super 8s after they put 3-20 past Fermanagh in a superb display in Navan.
Dublin’s Michael Darragh Macauley put a frustrating, injury-hampered 2017 behind him with an impressive league campaign.
Meanwhile, the 1B play-off will be between Nenagh and Armagh.
The 42-year-old says he came through the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines unscathed.
Without getting carried away, South Africa’s abject performance shouldn’t take anything away from Ireland.
The Limerick champions will face Waterford’s Ballygunner in a repeat of the 2015 decider.
“It was weird with the announcement at the start of pre-season but it in no way has it affected our rugby.”
Dublin will now progress to the semi-final stage of the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship.
The ITF (International Tag Federation) Tri Nations tournament between Ireland, Britain and Australia is underway this weekend
Cricket Ireland will need assistance from the government as they look to improve facilities at Malahide.
The new league structure means Wexford FC have no hope of promotion. Manager Damien Locke says they must build for the future.
Business groups are calling on councillors to scrap changes that would limit the height of some city centre buildings.
Big Belgian’s strike on halftime proves difference as Reds advance with a game to spare.
Ireland can learn plenty from their talismanic captain.
“It was a probably a timely reminder of where we needed to be,” says the Ireland skipper.
The provinces helped each other out on a nail-biting last round of regular season fixtures.
This side aren’t afraid to go against the tide in order to receive greater recognition.
The sector is 7.7% bigger than this time last year, with most gains in commercial property.
Research from the Education and Skills Centre finds exam results since the DEIS school introduction have continually improved.
Merrion warns of deflation risk amid housing pickup.
Following an shock defeat for Joe Ward, Team Ireland are back on track at the AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku.
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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'I'm happy for the project to continue': Simon Harris rules out re-tendering children's hospital
The Minister was responding to a statement by BAM that suggested it would pull out of the contract if the Government wanted.