Few could have appreciated the scale of the history more than Rob Kearney. And it felt at the time there wasn’t too many people fighting my corner!”New Zealand's Julian Savea is tackled by Ireland’s Jared Payne and Rob Kearney at Soldier Field, Chicago, in 2016. Ireland's Rob Kearney and Tadhg Furlong celebrate after beating New Zealand for the first time in 2016. I couldn’t even finish my second bottle of beer and I went to bed.”A fortnight later, helped by weak officiating by Jaco Peyper and his team, the All Blacks exacted a spiteful revenge. And we always said that the All Blacks never respected us until we won as a team, as a rugby nation.

Jimmy O'Brien and Jack Crowley during an Ireland training session in Chicago ahead of the game against the All Blacks. Ireland are playing New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago in the first of the autumn internationals that also sees them play Japan, Australia and South Africa this month. Ireland had a large contingent on the successful Lions tour of Australia, including the head coach Andy Farrell, while those who did not make it played for an Ireland team coached by Paul O’Connell, who comfortably beat Georgia and Portugal. The upcoming internationals are important for the rugby world rankings as it is the last chance to get points before the seeding for the 2027 Rugby World Cup. New Zealand team to play Ireland:Will Jordan; Leroy Carter, Quinn Tupaea, Jordie Barrett, Caleb Clarke; Beauden Barrett, Cam Roigard; Ethan De Groot, Codie Taylor, Fletcher Newell; Scott Barrett, Fabian Holland; Simon Parker, Ardie Savea, Peter Lakai.

People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Richard Boyd Barrett says his treatment for throat cancer has been “successful” and the disease had been “eliminated”. Mr Boyd Barrett said on Friday he had undergone a scan in the past week that confirmed his treatment for throat cancer had been a success. Mr Boyd Barrett stepped back from work in April to undergo treatment after revealing he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. Mr Boyd Barrett said he noticed a lump on his neck during last year’s general election campaign and had it investigated before Christmas. [ Richard Boyd Barrett on his cancer treatment: ‘It is going to be very difficult to eat.

26 October 2025; Ava Crean of Back 2 Boston Running Club A.C., Limerick, crosses the finish line to win the women's national title at the 2025 Irish Life Dublin Marathon. This marks the 44th edition of the race with thousands of participants from international athletes, club runners, wheelchair-assisted participants, charity runners, and first-time marathon participants taking on the 26.2-mile challenge. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile *** NO REPRODUCTION FEE ***

International Preview: Ireland v New Zealand,Soldier Field, Chicago, Saturday, 8.10pm,Live on Virgin Media TV and TNT SportsThe Rematch indeed. Photograph: InphoHaving won none of the first 28 meetings between the countries, Ireland have since won five from 10. The All Blacks players have been repeating the mantra of rewriting history, that is, 2016 here. With Beauden Barrett back at the outhalf helm, and world-class players such as Ardie Savea and Will Jordan, they assuredly can beat anybody. Both teams are full of world-class players and professionals that are well able to rock up on a day and put out their best performance.

McMillan is now in the home dugout for this game and knows there is something special about these sort of games for Munster. There’s some pressure to live up to the rich history of Munster teams doing really well against the touring international side. Two other players, outside centre Fionn Gibbons (formerly Castleknock College and now Young Munster RFC) and tighthead Ronan Foxe (a product of Midland Warriors and Tullamore RFC) are poised for their first starts after making two and six appearances respectively off the bench. Replacements: M Clein, M Donnelly, K Ryan, F Wycherley, L Murphy, J O’Riordan, JJ Hanrahan, B O’Connor. Replacements: J M Vivas, D Correa, O Filippa, L Colidio, J P Bernasconi, E Pregot, B Farise, A Fraga.

“There’s very little apparent dynamism in the Northern Ireland Executive, so that anything will be seized upon. “Does everyone who uses the Orange Order name mean Prod? “There’s an awful lot of work to be done on how Northerners with a British identity can be accommodated in a united Ireland. The united Ireland discussion has again gained traction in recent weeks. “I have no doubt that the new president will find ways of reaching out to Protestants and others in Northern Ireland,” said one leading Church of Ireland figure.

The global climate negotiation process was initiated in Brazil with the Rio Earth Summit in the hopeful 1990s. “Climate denialism is back at a point we thought we’d moved on from,” Fitzpatrick says. NDCs are climate action plans that set out how each country will reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions in the immediate future and longer term. The country’s appetite for climate action has wavered in the past but in his second term Donald Trump has turned reservation into disdain. It is clear that the absence from global climate negotiations of the world’s biggest economy and second-largest emitter diminishes the process.

HSE chief executive Bernard Gloster and Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill say voluntary hospitals should use the integrated financial management system used by HSE institutions. At the PAC hearing on October 16th Fine Gael TD Joe Neville questioned why the system had not been installed in the voluntary hospitals. The absence of a modern centralised financial information system has been a key issue for health service management for many years. The HSE maintained its service-level agreement would provide a framework for the introduction of the new ICT system into the voluntary hospitals. Three days later on October 20th, Chambers sent a letter to MacNeill which was copied to voluntary hospitals.

Following a long-running controversy about how customers’ tips were handled in Dublin’s Ivy restaurant several years ago, another bone of contention about fairness there has arisen. [ The waiters who took on the Ivy restaurant – and wonOpens in new window ]At The Ivy, waiters have kept their tips in full since then. “Peter” says there is a lot of pressure and staff don’t feel supported, but tips are the biggest issue for kitchen staff. Realising that “a floor manager got €1,500 from tips, while kitchen staff got nothing” was “very frustrating”. The Ivy was queried regarding the card tips system, specifically where kitchen staff are excluded.

The document describes Irish success in cultivating access and influence in the US, while translating this into investment by US multinationals here. Photograph: iStockIrish influence in Washington is waning and the future of its economic model under increasing threat at a time of heightened focus on foreign policy stances contrary to the positions of the Trump administration, according to a new report from an influential London think-tank. At the same time, the report says, Ireland has deflected attempts by the EU to interfere with its tax regime. This has provoked extensive commentary amongst the Trump administration and its congressional allies,” it says. In a foreword to the report, Robert O’Brien, a former National Security Adviser for the first Trump Administration, notes: “The Trump administration and the American people expect better burden sharing from our allies and partners.

Tánaiste Simon Harris has defended his earlier comments that migration numbers in Ireland are too high. Mr Harris, who is also Minister for Foreign Affairs, said a discussion on migration would help social cohesion. “More broadly, are migration numbers too high outside of international protection? “Fulfilling our international obligations under international protection – great. “But if eight of the 10 people who are seeking international protection don’t qualify, we have to say, what more can we do?”He said it was “common sense” to ask those who are in international protection and working to pay rent, and that proposals on this were “very nearly ready”.

Former hurling All-Star DJ Carey is in jail. Friday’s courtroom atmosphere changed about halfway through this jaw-dropping account of DJ Carey’s thriving career as a swindler. The former hurler didn’t miss a trick. Thomas Butler, who gave more than €16,000 to DJ Carey. DJ Carey walked down many tunnels when he wore the black and amber of Kilkenny.

A probation report placed him at high risk of reoffending in relation to emotional abuse and coercive control. The Central Criminal Court heard how when the man and woman met, she was vulnerable, having suffered a significant bereavement. He pleaded guilty to assault causing harm, threats to kill or cause serious harm, coercive control and threats to publish intimate images without consent on dates between April and December 2022. The court heard the man told gardaí he was “hot-headed” and while he never sent the images he accepted he had said he would. The man accepted in Garda interview he had sent threatening messages, but said he would never have carried them out.

Apple blamed a surprise decline in China revenue on supply disruptions, predicting it will return to growth in the world’s biggest smartphone arena as the iPhone 17 gains momentum. Revenue dipped nearly 4 per cent to $14.5 billion (€12.5 bilion) in the three months through September, the company said Thursday. Even so, Apple’s upgraded and redesigned iPhone 17 products are drawing consumers back to stores, and the novel iPhone 17 Air may add another boost to interest this quarter. The strong results from AWS, the world’s largest cloud provider, followed stellar cloud revenue growth reported on Wednesday by Microsoft’s Azure and Google Cloud, the number two and number three players in the industry, respectively. The unit reported revenue growth of 17.5 per cent in the second quarter.