Injury in elite (professional/competitive/collegiate) dance is commonplace and pernicious. Return-to-dance after extended time-loss injury requires careful consideration to ensure dancers are ready to...

Three likely rivals for the presidential election are essentially locked in a dead heat as the campaign steps up a gear, a new poll for the Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks has shown.

Irish aid worker Gena Heraty has been released after a month in captivity in Haiti and is safe and well.

Councils to be asked to collectively zone enough land to hold 83,000 new homes per year

* Second Test: Australia 26-29 British & Irish Lions * Lions roar back to take unassailable 2-0 series lead Nothing much in rugby tastes sweeter than victory in a British & Irish Lions series. It is the rarity value that makes it extra special and, before kick-off, just one touring side since 1997 had enjoyed the ultimate buzz. Hence the massed roars of pent-up joy and relief at the final whistle when Maro Itoje’s squad officially secured their lofty status in Lions history. While there is still one last Test to be played in Sydney next Saturday, the visitors now hold an unassailable 2-0 lead and can forever bask in a collective golden glow. But those bare facts do not remotely tell the full story of a memorable contest in front of a record crowd for a Lions Test of just over 90,000 mostly red-clad spectators. Continue reading...

The 25-year-old will link up with the tourists in Brisbane ahead of the first Test.

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Joe McCarthy was a deserved Player of the Match, while Finn Russell rubber-stamped his place in the out-half pecking order.

Researchers studying the remains of a prehistoric woman who lived around 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium have produced a reconstruction of her face using ancient DNA.

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