Common Travel Area a border to migrants on island of Ireland

Adekanmi Abayomi

NEVER mind that other B-word – crossing the border is already a challenge for migrants living in Ireland, north and south, as Adekanmi Abayomi has discovered.

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Neil Best: 'Friendly fire' still has rugby targets to hit

John Flack 05 Jun, 2020

NEIL Best's sporting career could easily have taken a different trajectory had he fulfilled his promise as a footballer when at school and not switched to the oval-ball game.

David Humphreys: 'Mark McCall was the captain of Ulster - I was just the replacement captain.'

John Flack 27 May, 2020

DAVID Humphreys has revealed that he neither wanted nor expected to be handed the Ulster captaincy in the season when the province lifted the Heineken Cup after Mark McCall had been forced to retire with a serious neck injury.

Sport NI publishes framework guidance for return to sport

23 May, 2020

SPORT NI’s framework for a return to sport begins to answer one question – How? – but not the one most people are asking: When? That aspect will depend on the Northern Ireland Executive, with Peter McCabe, Sport NI’s Interim Director of Performance, explaining that “the framework is designed to help sport implement the executive’s five-step pathway.

Irish rugby facing losses of E20m despite PRO14 investment boost

Kenny Archer 23 May, 2020

IRFU Chief Executive Philip Browne has suggested that “without Government financial support sport will take a generation to get back on its feet, leaving an enormous void at the heart of communities throughout the land."

Ulster and Ireland scrum half John Cooney says 'Take Control' of your life

Kenny Archer 22 May, 2020

FLYING fit and in fabulous form, John Cooney knows well that you can only look after yourself.

Coronavirus: 'Cross-border co-operation' needed to ease restrictions on sport

David Young, Press Association 20 May, 2020

Easing restrictions on sports played on an all-island basis will require the authorities on both sides of the border to move at the same time, a Stormont minister has said.

Ulster Rugby star Chris Henry looking forward to new challenges

John Flack 20 May, 2020

IT is perhaps more than coincidence that former Ulster and Ireland flanker Chris Henry has moved into a job related to the health industry such was his unwanted personal experience in that field during his career.