CAPE TOWN, South Africa - FIFA says Ireland will not be invited to the World Cup as a 33rd team despite the hand ball by Thierry Henry that helped France eliminate the Irish in a playoff.
- Ireland has given up hope of a World Cup playoff replay against France because of Thierry Henry’s hand ball.
- There will be no rematch.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Notre Dame may have gotten Michael Floyd back from a broken collarbone for its clash against Navy, but the Irish had no answer for the Midshipmen's potent option offensive attack as Navy won 23-21 in South Bend. Navy ran all over Notre Dame, racking up 349 rushing yards, dashing any BCS hopes Jimmy Clausen and company might have had. The Irish also hurt their own cause, committing three turnovers (2 fumbles, 1 INT) and missing two field goals on the day.
Notre Dame is finding ways to win close games it lost a season ago.
Purdue went ahead with 3:41 to go, but the Boilermakers left Jimmy Clausen with too much time. The banged up quarterback, who was in and out of the game with a turf toe injury, orchestrated a game-winning, 72 yard drive, capped off by a 3-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Rudolph for the 24-21 win.
After back-to-back shootouts against Michigan and Michigan State, Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis doesn't want another against Purdue.
Notre Dame's offense was flying high as Jimmy Clausen was 15-for-18 for 315 yards and four touchdowns as the No. 23 Fighting Irish opened the season with a 35-0 throttling of Nevada.
Celizic: College football needs Notre Dame to be a team worthy of its legend.
Dubliners raised glasses in pubs and signed a book of condolence at the U.S. Embassy on Thursday in heartfelt tributes to Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Of all the Kennedy brothers, Ted best embodied the Irish spirit – he was the prosaic survivor, not a hero, and not so much a romantic as the one who carried the load. Howard Fineman explains.
Chicago's South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade doesn't have the green light anymore. Organizers have decided this year's parade was the last.
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis plans to coach the Fighting Irish from the field next season. At least that's the plan for now.
TODAY will say, "top o' the morning" to all of America in a special two-day broadcast, live from Ireland. On Monday March 16 and Tuesday March 17, Meredith Vieira and Al Roker will don their Irish green and celebrate Saint Patrick's Day on the Emerald Isle.
The search through the rankings in an effort to find Notre Dame took a little longer than usual this week. The Fighting Irish didn’t make the Top 25 in either of the national polls. The writers dropped them. So did the coaches.
Anglo Irish Bank share trading was suspended Friday after the Irish government announced it was nationalizing the troubled lender, a move the EU said it will investigate.
Shares in Ireland's scandal-struck Anglo Irish Bank Corp. fell to a new record low Wednesday in the face of an imminent government takeover.
In the span of 10 minutes on Tuesday afternoon, Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis made two statements that should make anyone who once voted “Aye” regarding his 10-year contract squirm.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - We know Jimmy Clausen is a leader because that’s what Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis tell us he is.
- "All right, fire away."
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Dan Wenger barked out the clichés like his hair was on fire, sometimes not even waiting until the question had been completed.
Political leaders across Europe were shaking their heads in frustration this weekend at the Irish voters' veto of the latest European Union treaty. But many of their citizens weren't.
Leaders of Ireland's main Christian churches were barred from praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall Thursday because they refused to remove the crosses they were wearing.
DUBLIN, Ireland - Less than two years ago, St. Audeon’s Catholic Church was dying. It offered one sparsely attended weekly Mass in Latin and was on the brink of closure.
PORTLAOISE, Ireland - As revelers worldwide celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a pint of Guinness, dyed-green milk or visions of red-bearded leprechauns, it’s a good bet that few of them will have Rotimi Adebari in mind.