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The league returns this weekend. Source: Inpho 1. Fascinating league awaits The crowds at last weekend’s football league ties showed a massive appetite is there for inter-county games after Covid restrictions were lifted. There are plenty of enticing contests coming up over the next few weeks on the hurling front with the round 2 showdown […]

JUST TWO YEARS after suffering relegation from Dublin’s top-tier championship, the St Sylvester’s Ladies team are preparing for an All-Ireland final. St Sylvesters’ captain Danielle Lawless [right] is gearing up for the currentaccount.ie intermediate All-Ireland final against Source: Seb Daly/SPORTSFILE Their new manager Anthony Cooke has been credited with much of their quick recovery, guiding […]

Updated Thu 11:07 PM THE DRAW HAS been finalised for the semi-finals of the Sigerson Cup, which will take place next Thursday 10 February. DCU, the reigning champions, will play UL in one clash with MTU Kerry facing NUI Galway in the other fixture. Both games will be played at neutral venues to be confirmed […]

Updated Thu 9:30 PM SATURDAY’S HURLING SCHEDULE will commence for Tommy Guilfoyle in Dr Hyde Park. He’s jumped on board as coach to the Roscommon senior hurlers this year, alongside new manager Francis O’Halloran, a pair of Clare natives trying to spread the hurling gospel. They’re having a puck around at 9am in the Roscommon […]

Early on in the pandemic, global health experts envisioned a nightmare scenario: Covid-19 vaccines are created, but they go almost exclusively to rich countries that can afford to buy them. People in poorer countries are left to get sick and die. To prevent this, the experts set up an international initiative called Covax, designed to […]

Weeks ago, the Indian capital ran out of space for its dead. New Delhi’s public parks and parking lots were converted into sites for mass cremations of Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains. Cremations are an important Hindu funeral ritual, but Indian crematoria declared that they were out of wood for pyres, and burial grounds for the […]

Israel unquestionably has the military advantage in its ongoing conflict with Hamas. But in the fight to control the public narrative of the conflict, Israel’s edge seems to be slipping. In previous rounds of conflict, the Israeli government was often able to capitalize on its widely followed official social media channels, as well as statements […]

With the ceasefire came relief. The shelling had stopped. People were visiting each other, feeling happy, Salwa Tibi, a Gaza program representative for CARE International, said. Earlier this week, Tibi hadn’t been sure if she would see the next morning, or the morning after that, so heavy was the bombardment from Israeli airstrikes. This week, […]

Last week, no one had heard of Emily Wilder. Then she became the focus of a national campaign to get her fired. Days later, she was. Things move fast. So there’s a good chance that days from now, the story of a rookie journalist who lost her job because of the way she used social […]

The ceasefire announced Thursday between Israel and Hamas will hopefully end the worst of the violence that in the course of 11 days killed well over 200 people, the vast majority of them Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In the narrowest sense, Hamas and Israel have both accomplished their immediate goals. Hamas got to portray […]