Aiden McGeady injury blow for Hibernian
Hibernian have been dealt a major early-season injury blow after it emerged that recent signing Aiden McGeady faces the prospect of more than two months on the sidelines.
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'Proud daughter of Kerry': New York Governor congratulates Kingdom on All-Ireland win
Governor of New York Kathy Hochul has congratulated Kerry on their recent All-Ireland football final victory.
1st T20I Preview: Rohit Sharma-Led Formidable India Eye ODI Encore vs West Indies
A full-strength Indian team in all its might will be looking to overwhelm West Indies in its bid to record a second successive clean sweep in the three-match T20I series starting Friday. With less than three months left for the T20 World Cup, skipper Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid will get around 16 games (5 vs WI, 5 in Asia Cup (if India play final), 3 vs Australia, 3 vs South Africa) to firm up their core team that will then play unchanged going into mega event.
Eight Irish athletes set for U20 World Championship
A team of eight athletes will represent Ireland at the World U20 Championships in Cali, Columbia across six days of competition beginning on 1 August.
Commonwealth Games 2022: Boxers Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain get easy opening draws
Nikhat will open her campaign in the women's 48-50kg light flyweight category against Helena Ismael Bagao of Mozambique on Sunday. A victory would see her pitted against another easy opponent in Helen Jones of Wales in the quarterfinals. Lovlina will also be up against the lesser-known Ariane Nicholson of New Zealand in her opening light middle weight (66-70kg) bout on Saturday, and a win will pit her against Gold Coast silver medallist Rosie Eccles of Wales in the quarterfinals.
Bath sign Ireland’s Quinn Roux to cover Charlie Ewels’ injury absence
Bath have signed Ireland international lock Quinn Roux for the 2022-23 season.
Ulster and Connacht set to meet on URC opening weekend
Ulster and Connacht will meet in the first all-Irish derby of the campaign on the opening day of the second United Rugby Championship season this September.
1st T20I: Rohit Sharma-led formidable India eye ODI encore against hapless Windies
With less than three months left for the T20 World Cup, skipper Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid will get around 16 games (5 vs WI, 5 in Asia Cup (if India play final), 3 vs Australia, 3 vs South Africa) to firm up their core team that will then play unchanged going into mega event. The mere thought of a first eleven comprising Rohit, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya and Dinesh Karthik as the five specialists batters in the top six can have an intimidating as well as debilitating effect on the opposition. And that too at a time when a player of Virat Kohli's stature has been failing miserably in shortest format and doubts are being cast about his place in the playing XI.