‘Leinster will probably walk away feeling like they got away with one’ – Munster captain Tadhg Beirne frustrated by derby defeat

SuperValu and Centra are set to cut the price of their own-brand butter by up to 15pc. The Musgrave group, which owns the grocery and convenience store chains, announced the price cuts on the full range of SuperValu and Centra own-brand Irish butter products. All SuperValu and Centra 454g own-brand butter products, including SuperValu Butter and Centra Irish Creamery Butter, will be reduced from €3.99 to €3.39, which marks a 15pc cut. Meanwhile, all 227g own-brand butter products will reduce from €2.39 to €2.09, marking a 13pc cut. This includes SuperValu Irish Creamery Butter, SuperValu Irish Unsalted Butter, Centra Butter, and Centra Unsalted Irish Creamery Butter.

Luke Littler put in a statement performance to bulldoze his way into the last 16 of the World Championship with a 4-0 victory over Mensur Suljovic. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. In the opening match of the evening session, veteran Swede Andreas Harrysson continued his remarkable debut run with a 4-2 win over world number 33 Ricardo Pietreczko.

Thomas Frank told to QUIT Tottenham by ex-star in furious social media rantThomas Frank is under massive pressure to improve results at Tottenham after his side slipped to 14th place in the Premier League table following successive defeatsView 2 Images Thomas Frank is under huge pressure at Tottenham (Image: AFP/Getty Images)Thomas Frank has run out of excuses and should resign as Tottenham manager because he’s failed to make any progress this season. Spurs go into Sunday’s game against Crystal Palace sitting 14th in the Premier League table and ex-player Ramon Vega has called for Frank’s head. ‌Tottenham have won just six of their 17 top-flight matches and Frank is under huge pressure following successive defeats against Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. ‌“Honestly, I think we are in a transition phase, because yes, we are a Champions League club, but are we a Champions League club? We only qualified because we won the Europa League,” he told Sky Sports before the trip to Palace.

The Lansdowne Road riot broke out in the first half of the friendly on February 15, 1995. English supporters forced the abandonment of the game 27 minutes into the match after Ireland took the lead. More than 20 people were injured when projectiles were thrown from the upper to lower parts of the stadium. The note said: “The choice of particular parts of the stadium to accommodate English fans created difficulties. It said spectators should be seated in a way that is “irrespective of whether the match is competitive or a friendly”.

Sir Alex Ferguson's thoughts on Kobbie Mainoo are clear after Scott McTominay commentsSpeculation has continued to grow around Kobbie Mainoo's future at Manchester UnitedView 3 Images Amorim insists Mainoo is still part of his plans at Manchester United (Image: Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)Sir Alex Ferguson believes academy players are still the future of Manchester United despite the likes of Scott McTominay and Alejandro Garnacho being sold. Both former Carrington stars have left the club in the last year with fellow academy boy Kobbie Mainoo potentially following suit in January. ‌"Scott McTominay is now emerging as one of Man United's big players," Ferguson told the Scottish FA in 2021. It's the heart and soul of what Manchester United has been since the days of Sir Matt Busby, who started the whole process of trusting young players playing. Amorim said: "Kobbie Mainoo will have the opportunity he has all the time.

Repeat referendums secured positive votes after government commitments to ensure the triple lock would be respected. The bill would scrap the triple lock, despite the commitments given by past governments to secure public ascent to the Nice and Lisbon treaties. Local neutrality groups have sprung up in Louth, Roscommon, and Tipperary to push for council motions on the triple lock in the wake of roadshow events. Lively debate and democratic contestationCouncil motions on protecting the triple lock have been driven by local grassroots campaigns in a number of cases. The Social Democrats introduced a motion to the Dáil calling for a plebiscite on retaining the triple lock earlier this year.

Irish embassy and consular staff scrambled to get match tickets for Irish soccer fans at the last World Cup held in the US over 30 years ago in order to prevent a “riotous situation”, according to newly released State files. Mr Gallagher said the work of his staff and the consulates “represented one of the most effective and productive promotions of Ireland and her image during the World Cup”. However, the ambassador claimed the diffusion of the potentially riotous situation involving Sportex fans in Florida “prevented the important enhancement of the image of Ireland, which was developed during the World Cup, [from] being seriously undermined overnight”. He revealed that they had approached the FAI about the matter, and had obtained 96 tickets at $25 each. Details of the efforts made by staff are contained in correspondence about accounting for official expenditure in relation to World Cup ’94.

New finance minister Simon Harris has rejected suggestions that he will not be able to say no to Fine Gael ministers’ budget requests. Mr Harris appointed himself as finance minister following Paschal Donohoe’s decision to depart politics in November to take a job with the World Bank in Washington DC. Despite dubbing himself “Sensible Simon”, some have questioned whether Mr Harris will be able to say no to Fine Gael ministers as easily as Mr Donohoe was, noting that being party leader adds an added layer of complexity. Mr Harris denied this, arguing he is “captain of the team” and it is his “job to put people in roles that I think they are best served for”. Following criticism of the absence of a tax package in Budget 2026, Mr Harris said he believes the Government will be able to introduce one as part of the next budget.

It looks like a clip RTÉ News would routinely share on its social media channels. He said: “We do have what the social media companies call whitelist channels, which gives us priority access to report issues, and Meta, in this particular case, were very responsive. And that’s where the difficulty is with trying to regulate or hold the social media companies to account. There is currently no single electoral register in Ireland. Mr O’Leary is bullish that this problem that has been flagged for decades may finally be on the way to being fixed.

English supporters forced the abandonment of the game 27 minutes into the match after Ireland took the lead. More than 20 people were injured when projectiles were thrown from the upper to lower parts of the stadium. The note said: “The choice of particular parts of the stadium to accommodate English fans created difficulties. It said spectators should be seated in a way that is “irrespective of whether the match is competitive or a friendly”. – This article is based on documents in the file labelled 2025/115/986 at the National Archives of Ireland.

Ton Sai Bay, the heart of Koh Phi Phi, Thailand, where shops, restaurants and bungalows were wiped out following the tsunami in December 2004. Photograph: GettyWe are into the last days of the first quarter of the 21st century. It hardly seems 25 years since the world held its breath on December 31st, 1999, expecting planes to fall out of the sky and the internet to crash, all due to the millennium bug. And in 2022 we had Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which affects us all. Some put that figure at 19.1-36 million, when related deaths are taken into account.

And that's without mentioning all the little things, and the good things, which can also pile on pressure. Imagine you're going for a job interview, or sitting an exam, or playing in a concert, or making a speech. ©Claudia Hammond, 2026Adapted from Overwhelmed: Ways To Take The Pressure Off, by Claudia Hammond (Canongate £20), to be published on January 1. Spot your worry patternsKeep a diary and note down the times you feel worried and what specific things worry you most. It goes by various names – a gratitude list, three blessings or three good things.

The Taoiseach made an address at a dinner in the English capital on Armistice Day, where he said that he and Mr Major had “worked closely together in advancing the peace process”. “(Northern Ireland Secretary) Paddy Mayhew has had to set the record straight. He said he had been busy dealing with various international matters and said it was not easy “to have my finger on the pulse of Northern Ireland”. Mr Major wrote to Mr Reynolds in November 1994 after he resigned as Taoiseach and Fianna Fail leader, where he praised him for creating “practically from the day you came into office… an entirely different relationship”. “We have worked to heal some of the lingering consequences of the past, and above all, we have done all in our power to bring peace to Northern Ireland.

Then-taoiseach John Bruton raised the issue with British prime minister John Major after several safety incidents over a short period in the 1990s. Documents published as part of the annual release of National Archives in Dublin showed that possible legal action over Sellafield and other nuclear incidents was explored at the time. Mr Bruton also raised nuclear safety with Mr Major during an informal meeting of EU leaders in Majorca in 1995. John Bruton and John Major (Phil Noble/PA)Moving to reassure Mr Bruton, he said that safety was the “highest” priority for his government – with the word “highest” underlined. “I must emphasise that the HSE is satisfied that no-one was exposed to actual danger as a result of the Wylfa incident,” Mr Major added.