World Cup qualifiers round-up

A look ahead to tonight’s World Cup Qualifier at Windsor Park, Belfast

A car bomb was made safe in Co Fermanagh this weekend not far from the luxury Lough Erne golf resort in Northern Ireland where this June's G8 conference of world leaders is due to be held. Dissident republicans were last night considered the prime suspects.

A second attempt to play Northern Ireland's World Cup qualifier against Russia has been aborted due to bad weather in Belfast.

Fabio Coentrao scored with only seconds left to keep Portugal’s World Cup qualification hopes alive with a dramatic draw in Tel Aviv.

A new Channel 4 comedy series which depicts London’s Irish population as binge-drinking, English-haters suffering from a permanent hangover has been accused of “racism” by members of the community.

The game will now take place tomorrow

If Brian O'Driscoll did not exactly have the book thrown at him by an independent Six Nations disciplinary panel – his bid for a fourth consecutive British and Irish Lions trip to the southern hemisphere remains wholly intact – the three-week ban he received for stamping on the Italian flanker Simone Favaro in Rome last week may have serious ramifications for those around him.

Summer heats in Qatar pose huge problems for football's greatest tournament

Each police helicopter costs about £7m to buy. By contrast, the drones cost around £1m

The Italy captain, Sergio Parisse, has praised Ireland’s Brian O’Driscoll as one of the greatest centres in the history of the sport, ahead of today’s Six Nations game at the Stadio Olimpico.

Detectives have smashed a massive multimillion-euro diesel laundering plant in one of the biggest cross-border operations of its kind in Britain or Ireland.

He admitted that when he was in his Spitfire he was 'scared bloody stiff, all the time'

After becoming Stuart Lancaster’s main man in the line-out, Geoff Parling tells Chris Hewett he is not taking victory for granted against Italy on Sunday