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.

One of Ireland's most senior Catholic clerics has called for the Church to take a "reality check" following the country's overwhelming vote in favour of same-sex marriage.

Early indications suggest the Republic of Ireland has voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a historic referendum.

Catch a glimpse of the best moments of today's matches at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 where United Arab Emirates faced West Indies and Pakistan clashed with Ireland

Pakistan smash a victory at the Adelaide Oval beating Ireland by 7 wickets to secure their spot in the quarterfinals as third of Pool B

This has already dubbed been "the biggest game we've ever had" by Ireland's key batsman, Ed Joyce. The winner of this game is assured of a quarter-final place.

Ireland accidentally legalises ecstasy, crystal meth and ketamine for a day due to a legal loophole

Thirteen venues have been used so far in this tournament. On Saturday the fourteenth and final ground makes its 2015 World Cup debut: Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

In the most intense match of the World Cup played as of yet, Ireland pulled a two-wicket win over a fighting UAE side in the 16th match of the World Cup 2015 at Brisbane

Ireland's captain William Porterfield has not yet signed the petition for the retention of a 14-team World Cup, but based on his rhetoric at the Gabba on Tuesday, that can only be a matter of time.

West Indies hard-hitting allrounder Darren Sammy notched up his highest One-Day-International score during today’s Pool B’s World Cup match at Nelson.

The Caribbeans made 304 riding on the ton of Simmons and crucial knock of Sammy

Since their heroics in the Caribbean in 2007, Ireland have continued to sit atop the second rung of international sides, so much so that they now, in ODIs at least, find themselves in a separate little group alongside Afghanistan with an enhanced position in the rankings. That is crucial for the next World Cup in 2019, but their one focus at the moment is to use this tournament as a base to highlight the folly that the game's biggest global event is shrinking and the fact they largely continue to be ignored by the Full Members.

Ireland defeat Bangladesh by four wickets in the Tigers' third and last warm up match in Sydney.