JAMES O’CONNOR HAS joined the Midleton set-up as coach for the 2022 season. The Waterford native brought Ballyhale Shamrocks to the All-Ireland club decider where they lost in heartbreaking fashion to Ballygunner in Croke Park. He led them to two Kilkenny titles and a Leinster crown during his two-year spell with the Kilkenny kingpins. Advertisement…
With the strongest line-up of pro athletes ever seen at a triathlon, we didn’t envy whoever had to pick names for the pre-race press conference line-up. To give you some idea of the calibre of elite rolling into the desert for the inaugural Challenge Bahrain this coming Saturday, silver medallist Lisa Norden was absent, as…
OTTAWA — The federal Justice Department gave the go-ahead Friday for an extradition case to proceed against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who is wanted in the United States on fraud allegations. The decision marks the formal start of the high-profile extradition process for Meng, whose arrest has put Canada in a deeply uncomfortable position between…
The volume of retail sales in February was 0.4 per cent higher than in February 2008, the lowest growth since September 1995, when it rose by 0.2 per cent, reported the ONS, Office for National Statistics. Between January and February, total sales volume decreased by 1.9 per cent. All sectors showed falls, with the largest…
C’est aussi la saison des récompenses en France où le Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma a remis ses prix ce lundi 28 janvier 2019 à la Cinémathèque Française. Certains lauréats prennent déjà leur revanche contre les César ! Comme chaque année, le dernier lundi du mois de janvier, le Syndicat Français de la…
South Africa’s Stuart Marais and Bermuda’s Flora Duffy won the 12th annual Xterra South Africa Champs last weekend, grinding out convincing wins in cold and blustery conditions that sent athletes scrambling for the neoprene early on Sunday. Advertisement There was drama before the race got underway with news that four-time Xterra world champion Conrad Stoltz…
Quand le soleil est au zénith, le petit village italien de Viganella n’en profite pas. Les montagnes environnantes empêchent les rayons de soleil de passer. Plongés dans l’hiver le 13 novembre dernier, les 70 habitants passent 83 jours dans l’obscurité. Un miroir de huit mètres de long et de cinq mètres de large a été…
Disney is the animated-turned-live-action machine that keeps on giving, and we’re super excited for one of their next installments, a live-action Mulan. Not surprising at all, we’re not the only ones, as the original voice of Mulan is super stoked too, and she just might make an appearance in the film. Or at the very…
Obligé de revenir au Royaume-Uni pour assister aux funérailles de son grand-père, le prince Harry ne bénéficiera pas de traitement de faveur. Il doit subir une quarantaine et ne pourra pas porter son uniforme militaire aux obsèques du prince Philip. Le départ de l’un a poussé au retour de l’autre. Le 9 avril dernier, le…
Donald Trump’s embattled Labour Secretary, Alex Acosta, has resigned amid fierce criticism over his handling of a plea deal for financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2007. Announcing the news on Friday, Mr Trump was eager to emphasise that Mr Acosta had made the decision himself and still had his full backing. “This was him, not me,”…