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​Jack Conan says failing to give Johnny Sexton a fairytale farewell at the Rugby World Cup was arguably the most painful aspect of the "toughest" defeat of his career.

There is a piece of legislation working its way through the Oireachtas, the main purpose of which is to establish an independent gambling regulator. But the horse racing industry has allowed itself to be used as pawns by the gambling industry in a bid to prevent it, writes Fergus Finlay

Brigadier Seamus Devins, my mother's cousin, was among "Noble Six," as they've become to be known, who were killed by Free State forces in Co Sligo in 1922.

By mid-September 1922 the Republican forces were on the retreat throughout Ireland and were reverting to rural guerrilla tactics while the Free State controlled the cities and towns.

It is not very often that you hear a tale about a captain that dives overboard to rescue one of his...