Ireland’s play-off history features more pain than pleasure, with our record making for grim reading – played 11, won 3, lost 8. Here’s how the previous 10 play-offs played out.

The family of an elderly widower who was brutally beaten to death on a hospital ward by a fellow patient warned a judge that the killer "deserves no pity and no leniency”.

Munster are still in South Africa where they take on the Bulls at Loftus Versfeld tomorrow. The match is live on TG4, Premier Sports and URC TV, kicking off at 12pm.

A total of nine people have been arrested by gardaí during a Day of Action targeting money laundering. Officers with the DMR East Division, assisted by the Serious Crime Unit, arrested the nine adults ...

Instagram Proud Parents Marie and Mossie Keane, at City Hall Cork, watching Roy recieve of the Freedom of Cork City, from Lord Mayor Se n Martin. Photo: Donna McBride / News Digital The mother of ...

Rugby Football Union chief executive Bill Sweeney insists there has been no contact with Andy Farrell as part of England’s succession planning for the time beyond next year’s World Cup.

A liquidator is seeking the restriction of a company director who took payments in excess of €45,000 a month out of her packaging business before it collapsed.

At the end of a very difficult week for Munster – on and off the pitch – the last place they would want to have to go in search of a morale-boosting win is Loftus Versfeld.

Iran’s men’s national soccer team wore black armbands and held schoolbags as their anthem played ahead of a match in Turkey on Friday in what a team official said was a protest over the killing of ...

Former England manager Roy Hodgson has been appointed as the new interim head coach of Championship club Bristol City.

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