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The 5 in Five – video flora of Ireland – is a long-term project of the Trinity College Botany Department and the Trinity College Botanic Garden.

Now that autumn is in full swing and the routine of school and various activities ongoing, there’s barely a minute to cook dinner let alone do the washing up afterwards. Ar this time of year, I look to one-tray crowd pleasers for dinners that I can easily prepare hours beforehand, or the night before. Vegetables can be chopped, meat marinating and meals planned.

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1 I found this giant fungus, 20cm diameter, on the Murrough/Broadlough on August 28th in muggy weather. It had lovely patterning. Is it a rare fungus?

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It’s 9.30pm on a Tuesday, and a slight young woman with short hair and tattoos is standing with a pile of cardboard in the porch of a shop on Henry Street in Dublin. She looks fit and well and very alert, but the way she is standing is defensive and wary.

A sense of duty prompted Francis Rowley to enrol in Teagasc’s Ballyhaise Agricultural College in Co Cavan.

Trueshan lit up Doncaster as he returned to his best to register a remarkable success in the Betfred Doncaster Cup Stakes yesterday.

It was at the barber’s last month when I realised that what had passed for this summer was well and truly over. It was busy, mainly with some teenage boys and one strong mother who, with a mixture of charm – directed at the barber – and firmness, before which there was no deviance – directed at her sons – had her way. She was not for turning.

Charles Salesi Piutau looked out the hotel window at the shards of lightning that briefly illuminated a charcoal sky as a thunderstorm passed over Paris. There’s a temptation to use the elements as a metaphor to link nature’s force with a force of nature that will be let loose on Ireland at the Stade de la Beaujoire, but it seems a little overwrought, a misdirected pass at describing a...

The All Blacks got back to winning ways in some style at the World Cup last night by running in 11 tries in a 71-3 hammering of a courageous but outclassed Namibia side to revive their Pool A campaign.

I’ve heard about it, but I still don’t know. What is pickleball? It’s a game with players hitting a ball over a net, and is played in singles or doubles.

The old one-two, or 9-10 to be accurate, are back in harness again for Ireland. Conor Murray and Johnny Sexton will today start their 69th Test together, second on the all-time international list behind George Gregan and Stephen Larkham. But not even the enduring Wallabies legends could claim to have played together in four World Cups, which has to be a unique achievement for the Irish halfback...

Fiji coach Simon Raiwalui said his team had tried to put the heartbreak of losing to Wales behind them as they turn their attention to the do-or-die Pool C clash against Australia at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard this weekend.

When you hear people say “this is the life”, it usually means they’re doing something they don’t often do – drinking wine in a palazzo in Florence, or dipping their toe in the Pacific Ocean. Moments like those were not really to the forefront of my thinking when I was picking the name for my debut book.

The iconic actor, director and producer Clint Eastwood is an avid rugby fan. Eastwood, who is still making movies aged 93, was entranced by the reality of a divided South Africa healing itself through the leadership of president Nelson Mandela.

Felix Jones flashes a cursory smile as he walks into the downstairs room of the team hotel in Toulon with South African media officer Zeena Issacs-Van Tonder. Taking his seat at the top table, the 36-year-old, folded arms on the table and leaning forward, looks tentative. Jones has been rotated to “do media” the week before Ireland meet South Africa in their third Pool B match of the Rugby World...

Pat Jennings was walking around the Tottenham Hotspur training ground, saying hellos, shaking hands, telling stories. Jennings played 656 times for Spurs, became a club hero, was Footballer of the Year, won the FA Cup, the League Cup and, in 1972, the Uefa Cup.

While Irish racing reels from its most extensive ever drugs scandal, the scene is set in Britain for what could prove to be a classic cross-channel feel-good story in today’s St Leger at Doncaster.

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The more this game nears, the more it seems to grow in interest and significance. In part it’s because of the novelty value – this is only the third occasion these countries have met and the first time in 20 years – and also because Ireland need to carry as much positive energy and momentum into next week’s crunch Pool B meeting with the Springboks.

Is it time to discuss policy on immigration to protect liberal, open, tolerant Ireland? Regular readers may be aware that as the grandson of immigrants, my DNA is cosmopolitan and sees immigration as a hugely positive force in our economy and our society in general. However, it is not Ireland’s attitude to immigrants that is undermining the sustainability of immigration, it is the inability to...

Iconography “Ray Cummins up along the wing now to Jimmy Barry-Murphy. Jimmy Barry on the ‘14?. What’s he going to do? A goal! There he is. The young man with the goalscoring touch. He may be only 19 but he surely joins the football immortals.” – Michael O’Hehir.

Soldier Field, Chicago, December 1982. The Chicago Bears and the St Louis Cardinals, fourth quarter, game tied, wind chill of minus three. Neil O’Donoghue, a son of Clondalkin, enters the fray.

In the madcap final day of the 2011 Solheim Cup at Killeen Castle in Co Meath, the crowds – 28,000 of them, rain-soaked and delirious – looked on Suzann Pettersen as if she were a supernatural being.

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I am lying on my living room floor, beneath my front window, amid a gun battle between the IRA and the British army. My Daddy is on one side of me, on the floor, my Mummy on the other. “We’re being crucified,” my Mummy says as she always does when gunmen open up. Daddy takes my hand and squeezes it. “Don’t worry, Adrian,” he says, “if you hear the bullet, it doesn’t have your name on it.”

‘You spend a lifetime with an animal, sometimes more than you spend with your own family,” says Gerry Creighton (54), a former elephant keeper and operations manager at Dublin Zoo. “It’s very hard not to have a relationship with animals.”

What is it? Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur, abv 22% (€32/50cl). It is made with cold brew coffee, from Brazilian beans roasted by Wild Heart in Newtownards, Co Down, mixed with an organic grain spirit and infused with cacao nibs.

Some of Jack B Yeats’s early paintings remain his most popular and acclaimed works. Notable for their use of colour and energetic style, they are mostly characterised by their realism.