Ireland squad named for Minsk

Wallabies star Berrick Barnes remains on the bench for the NSW Waratahs' must-win Super Rugby clash with the Brumbies on Saturday. Prop Paddy Ryan will make his fourth start this season as the NSW Waratahs try to keep their Super Rugby finals hopes ...

Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan are part of the Irish team The Irish Amateur Boxing Association have confirmed their 10-man squad for the 2013 European Elite Championships. The Championships, the 40th edition of the tournament, begin in Minsk, ...

Paddy Barnes are is raised followin his victory over Samuel Kistohurry at the National Stadium. A year after the Olympic Games and boxing finds itself in a familiar, cyclical lull. But yesterday there was a little resonance from the ExCel Arena as ...

Two wheels good, four wheels bad. Ryan Barnes (6), Shankill, and trick-cyclist Paddy Waters at Active8, a free bicycle event to encourage children to get fit. Photograph: Eric Luke The letters page of The Irish Times has recently been entertaining a ...

We have all seen that boxer Paddy Barnes is a bit of a messer, so it's no surprise to see him in the thick of the action in this funny call-out video. Along with his fellow Olympian boxer Michael Conlon and other Belfast comrades, they make a mock ...

Julian Barnes - who won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for The Sense of an Ending - was married for 30 years to the South-African born literary agent Pat Kavanagh. Aged 68, his wife died on October 20, 2008, after suffering a brain tumour. In an era ...

Dragon???s Toby Faletau is tackled by Munster's Paddy Butler and Cathal Sheridan. Photograph: Huw Evans/Inpho Dragons 30 Munster 24 Munster crashed to a last-gasp defeat at the hands of Newport Gwent Dragons in Wales ahead of their Heineken Cup ...

Paddy Jackson returns at outhalf for Ulster's trip to the Sportsground to take on Connacht. Photograph: Stu Forster/ RaboDirect Pro12 leaders Ulster have made five personnel changes and two positional changes to the team that beat the Dragons at ...

Any continuity the Waratahs hoped to build in their back line has been dashed by news Berrick Barnes will miss at least five or six weeks with a dislocated thumb. Coach Michael Cheika confirmed the Waratahs' most experienced playmaker would undergo ...