It was a chilly start to 2026 for Munster and Clayton McMillan as Ulster stamped their authority all over the New Year URC derby in Belfast. “I don't like to answer those questions, because it's nights like tonight that I think are just as important to us,” McMillan said. “I've seen our ability to get up for big games, but it's the consistency of performance. “I think what we take comfort from is that we've played a lot of the good teams. We've played the Stormers, we've played Leinster twice, we've played Ulster now, we've played Cardiff, who are above us coming into this game.

Consello, the global advisory and investing platform led by Tipperary native Declan Kelly, today announced a new long-term partnership with major champion Shane Lowry. Under the deal, Offaly man, Lowry will serve as a Consello Ambassador, with the Consello logo appearing on his golf apparel throughout the PGA and DP World Tour season and at related appearances. Consello Founder, Chairman and CEO, Declan Kelly said today: “Shane brings enormous talent, a relentless pursuit of excellence and great humility as a golfer and person. Mr Kelly said that Shane Lowry “represents the very best of his sport, and his values align naturally with those of our firm. We are proud to partner with him and look forward to supporting him in the years ahead.” Shane Lowry said: “I’ve known Declan for many years, and I’ve watched with great admiration the distinct and ambitious growth of Consello since its formation.

EU competition chief Teresa Ribera is responsible for enforcing the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. The Trump administration has demanded changes to the bloc’s tech rules and threatened to impose tariffs in retaliation for EU actions against Silicon Valley groups. Prosecutors have won some landmark rulings that tech companies maintained illegal monopolies. For its part, the EU faces a difficult balancing act, since it wants to enforce its digital rules without triggering a transatlantic trade war or provoking the US president into siding with Russia on Ukraine. But she added that when it came to enforcing its digital rules, “there is pay-off to moving forward and achieving outcomes that benefit the European people and business users”.

‌United confirmed Amorim's dismissal on Monday, less than 24 hours after a frustrating 1-1 stalemate at Leeds. Man Utd next manager LIVE: 6 man shortlist and top target to replace Ruben Amorim named READ MORE :"In Spain, it's too much about the result. It's likely that time will be needed to dismantle Amorim's United if his successor decides to revert to a four-man defence. At the time, it was reported Berrada led a four-man delegation to Barcelona to discuss the opportunity with Xavi face-to-face. Join our new MAN UTD WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Manchester United content from Mirror Football.

An Irish chemist has become the first woman to lead the EU Drugs Agency (EUDA). Lorraine Nolan began her five-year term as the new executive director of the EUDA this month. Ms Nolan is a leading figure in European and international regulatory cooperation for medicines and medical devices. She served as Chair of the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and has worked closely with a wide range of EU institutions, regulatory networks and global partners. She is the fourth person to hold the top position at the agency and the first woman in the post.

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A two-way cycle path will be installed on Gardiner Street and the number of its traffic lanes will be halved. Moreover, the Clontarf to city centre cycle route will be extended from Amiens Street to the quays as part of the traffic calming plan. The 2023 plan envisaged the reallocation of road space from cars to public transport, cyclists and pedestrians, while still retaining access to the city centre and its car parks for private motorists. These measures will significantly improve the environment for cyclists, pedestrians and public transport users, says O’Brien. Changes to the way deliveries operate in the city are also expected this year, with technology used to free up loading bays.

We don’t have to be jealous to notice it – we’re trying to make sense of fairness and what it looks like. As we grow up, the stories we tell ourselves about other people become subtler, more personal, and often morally weighted. Epictetus advises us to stop outsourcing our sense of value to other people and to the things we can’t control. How can we change if we don’t even know who we are?Opens in new window ]Comparison does have a valuable function. What matters to Epictetus is not what anyone else is doing, but whether we ourselves are attending to things we can control.

An Air Corps C295 maritime patrol aircraft headed west from Dublin on Monday for a 'maritime security and defence operation'. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA WireThe Defence Forces has deployed an aircraft to monitor the passage of a fugitive oil tanker off the west coast that was being pursued by the US military. At least one French military aircraft has also been sent to the area. However, there has been unusually large movements of military cargo aircraft from US military bases to UK airbases. A Defence Forces spokesman said it does not comment on specific operational matters.

Funeral details have been announced for Limerick strongman Pa O'Dwyer, who passed away on Saturday aged 40. Mr O'Dwyer will be reposing at his parents' residence in Carrigkerry on Tuesday, January 6. “Absolutely devastated to hear about the passing of Pa O’Dwyer,” Mr Hall wrote in tribute. Limerick Fire and Rescue also paid tribute to Mr O'Dwyer, who used to work as a firefighter in Newcastle West. "All of us in Limerick & Fire Rescue are saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Patrick (Pa) O'Dwyer.

Venezuelans living in Ireland are feeling cautiously optimistic in the wake of the seizing of the country’s president Nicolás Maduro by the US at the weekend. He met his partner Maria Isabel Meza-Silva (30), who grew up in Maracay, a city in northern Venezuela, in Ireland. It gives us a bit of hope.”Liliana Fernandez (35) felt she had no choice but to leave Venezuela for Ireland, in 2013. The Venezuelans in Ireland are concerned over Trump’s claim about how the country will be run by the US. “That’s something that Venezuelans around the world, we’re never going to lose – like the hope to come back to our country.”

Maxime, a bartender who works at Cyane's father's brasserie, told Le Parisien: 'Cyane was a really lovely girl, adorable. Achille BarosiAchille Barosi died after returning to Le Constellation to retrieve his phone and jacket just as the fire broke outAchille Osvaldo Giovanni Barosi, 16, went back to Le Constellation at 1.30am on New Year's Day after leaving without his phone and jacket. Chiara CostanzoChiara Costanzo, 16, had gone to Le Constellation 'by chance' on New Year's Eve. He said she had gone to Le Constellation with friends 'by chance' for New Year, and had been there before. Jacques Moretti, owner of Le Constellation, told Swiss media he and his wife were fully co-operating with authorities.

The summer of 2024 saw the club emerge from the window having twice broken its own transfer record for Adam Idah and Arne Engels. The departure of the talismanic Kyogo Furuhashi to Rennes was sanctioned without a ready-made replacement waiting in the wings. Seemingly acting on the advice of head of football operations, Paul Tisdale, Celtic put their entire stake on Wilfried Nancy. The culture surrounding the entire club is one of complacency, incompetence, convenience and short-cuts. Brian Wilson's appointment as interim chairman following Lawwell's departure also speaks to the unhealthy culture which persists at boardroom level.

Then Larkin ponders how “forty years back” he would have been envied by his parents’ generation. My parents looked at my generation and envied our social mobility, access to education, increased prosperity. Today, when I think of my children having children of their own – something I long for – I sometimes shudder at my own wishes. What I hate most is that I feel pity – sorrow and pity – towards my own children’s generation. With every choice we take, my generation and my parents’ generation make the lives of the young worse.

How’s that Fifa Peace Prize going, Gianni? Today is one month on exactly from the Fifa president’s gross act of brown-nosing at the World Cup draw in Washington. The Fifa Peace Prize was like one of Trump’s Diet Cokes – he was handed it, he downed it, he belched and he moved on. Given recent events, the Fifa Peace Prize, which Gianni Infantino presented to Donald Trump last month, isn’t just some harmless trinket. The Fifa Peace Prize in this context isn’t just some harmless trinket handed over to stop the baby crying because he lost his rattle.