Ireland can take encouragement from a 1-1 draw in their Euro 2016 Group E opener but the result was a cause of great concern for Sweden whose mediocrity contrasted starkly with their opponents' desire.

French finance officials have raided the Paris offices of US internet giant Google as part of a tax fraud investigation.

Ireland must resume their search for a new national academy manager after Chris Adams withdrew from the role he agreed to take up only two days ago.

The rain-curtailed qualifying match of ICC WT20 2016 between Bangladesh and Ireland at Dharamsala is washed out after only eight overs of play.

An injury-plagued Bangladesh, confronted with the stigma of suspect bowling actions, will go into their second ICC World T20 qualifier against Ireland at Dharamsala Cricket Stadium today. The match will start at 8 pm BST.

World Twenty20 debutants Oman stunned Ireland by two wickets in a thrilling last-over finish on Wednesday with lower-order batsman Aamer Ali's 32-run blitz achieving the target with two balls to spare.

India secure a huge seven-wicket victory over Nepal to become Group D champion of ICC U19 World Cup at Dhaka.

India win the 5th match of the ICC U19 CWC 2016 when they brushed aside Ireland by 79 runs at Mirpur today.

Two twin strangers from Ireland – who never knew the other existed until two months ago – recently took a DNA test to find out if they were related.

Check out all the interesting facts of this year’s ICC U19 CWC in Bangladesh. Let us all make this gala event a resounding success!

International Cricket Council says it will continue to prepare for ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Bangladesh 2016 despite Australia withdrawing its team from the event and expressing concerns over security of its squad.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) announces the groups and schedule of the ICC World Twenty20 India 2016, which will be staged across eight venues in India from March 8 to April 3, 2016.

Facebook will begin testing a new feature allowing users in Ireland and Spain to express a range of emotions on posts starting Friday -- but there will be no "dislike" button, the social network says.

David Beckham has backed Ryan Giggs to be a big success as Manchester United manager in the future.

Irish-born William Campbell, Satoshi Omura of Japan and China's Youyou Tu win the Nobel Medicine Prize for their discoveries of treatments against parasites, the jury says.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today launched the official ICC Women’s Team Rankings, which incorporate results in all three formats of the game into one rankings system.

Lucasfilm confirms that "Star Wars Episode VIII" will begin filming sequences in Ireland later this month.

Check out some outstanding achievements by our adored cricketers in Tests, T20 and One-day International cricket.

Ireland will host one-day internationals against Sri Lanka and Pakistan in the summer of 2016.

Fourteen Associate teams will attempt to outwit, outplay and outlast one another in Ireland and Scotland starting Thursday at the World Twenty20 Qualifier.