Ireland Sports News

The Republic of Ireland winger, a lifelong Hoops fans, does not blame supporters for staying away from Parkhead while the team are struggling for form. He said: “The fans want to watch good football and, the way we’ve been playing,...

Jonathan Sexton the chance to establish himself as first-choice fly-half by picking him ahead of Ronan O'Gara for Saturday's international against world champion South Africa. Sexton scored 16 points on his debut against Fiji last weekend and was selected at...

Top soccer officials from nine countries embroiled in a match-fixing scandal will meet with the sport's European governing body on Wednesday. The Vancouver Whitecaps have hired a senior manager from an English Premier League team as their new chief executive...

A winner of the prestigious handicap two seasons ago, the presence of Paul Nicholls' 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner means only a maximum of 17 of those left will be racing off their correct weight. Denman is scheduled to carry...

Humberside last week that counselling might be required for a group of young men returning from foreign fields. The three Irishmen who play for Hull City had not lost comrades but merely a football match, witnessing nothing more horrific than...

As an exercise in readying themselves for the world champions in Croke Park on Saturday this was useful enough night out for Ireland, if you can say that anything fits that category on an evening like this. We had been...

France qualified for its fourth consecutive World Cup when officials missed an obvious hand ball by Thierry Henry that led to William Gallas' overtime goal in a 1-1 tie against Ireland on Wednesday night. WATCH: "Le Hand Of God" Handball...

The controversial match between France and Ireland has escalated to the highest levels in both FIFA governance and a war of words between the governments of Ireland and France. On Wednesday, one of the last six positions of the 32-team...