Ronaldo Magic Helps Real Soar Against Helpless Juve

Ronaldo Magic Helps Real Soar Against Helpless Juve

Real Madrid have ended up as 3-0 winners at Juventus in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final. Cristiano Ronaldo’s spectacular bicycle kick to put Real 2-0 up all but secured their semi-final place. The Portugal striker, having already...
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Ireland To Play Scotland and Netherlands in Cricket Twenty20 Series

Ireland To Play Scotland and Netherlands in Cricket Twenty20 Series

Ireland, Scotland and Holland have announced plans to contest an annual Twenty20 tri-series, with the first edition this summer. The trio of associates will play between June 12-20 in Holland, facing each other twice in double headers to be held...
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Homeless Numbers Hit Record Last Week

Homeless Numbers Hit Record Last Week

Last week saw the biggest homeless figures on record. The statistics show the numbers approaching 10,000 – including over 3,000 children. Mike Allen of Focus Ireland says the cause of the problem has shifted. “More than three-quarters of families w...
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United’s Coming to the US Again This Summer

United’s Coming to the US Again This Summer

Jose Mourinho will once again take his Manchester United side to the United States on a pre-season tour this summer. United are to return to the US for two weeks as part of their preparations for the 2018-19 campaign and...
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Pardew Quits The Baggies

Pardew Quits The Baggies

Alan Pardew has left West Brom by mutual consent after winning just one Premier League game in his fourth-month spell as head coach – a run that has left the club facing relegation. The Baggies lie bottom of the table,...
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Teachers Threaten To Shut Down Schools over ‘Pay Equality’ Issues

Teachers Threaten To Shut Down Schools over ‘Pay Equality’ Issues

President of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation John Boyle has said that teachers “will shut down schools” if there is no resolution to their pay dispute. Teachers will make the call for pay equality at the INTO’s Annual Congress...
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O’Neill Calls For Reunification Referendum Within Five Years

O’Neill Calls For Reunification Referendum Within Five Years

Michelle O’Neill has called for an Irish unity referendum within five years. Addressing republicans at an Easter commemoration in Belfast’s Milltown cemetery, the Sinn Féin deputy leader said: “Ending partition has now taken on a new dynamic...
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Gunners Put Three Past Struggling Stoke

Gunners Put Three Past Struggling Stoke

Arsenal scored three times in the last 15 minutes to condemn Premier League strugglers Stoke to a heavy defeat, despite a fairly positive showing from the Potters in north London. The Gunners, with more than one eye on Thursday’s Europa...
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Ceremonies Held To Remember 1916 Rising

Ceremonies Held To Remember 1916 Rising

A number of commemoration services have been held today to remember those who died in the 1916 Easter Rising. A military ceremony was held outside the GPO on O’Connell street which was attended by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and President Michael...
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Northern Gang Responsible for Massive Marijuana Ring

Northern Gang Responsible for Massive Marijuana Ring

An organised crime gang operating in the North was behind the importation of herbal cannabis worth £1.3 million, police have said. Three pensioners were among six people arrested after the haul was found on a shipping pallet inside an industrial...
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