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.
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.
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.
MUSICAL man of mystery Van Morrison is a father again at the age of 64...
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AN elderly Irish priest was stabbed to death in the bedroom of his Kenyan mission for "the sake of a mobile phone and a few small things".
THE main Irish subsidiary of Allergan, the producers of Botox, last year increased its pre-tax profits by 80% to $87m (€59m).
A mysterious bottle that washed up on the shores of Ireland with a cryptic Swedish message inside has a local woman wondering if the note may have been authored by a Swede whose children perished in the 2004 tsunami.
THE reasons why Irish rapists are escaping justice is to be detailed this morning with the publication of the most comprehensive study of its kind revealing how victims feel let down by the legal system.
Sisters of Mercy offered Thursday to pay child abuse victims, the government and charities ... $193.5 million to compensate for decades of abuse in its schools and orphanages.
BERLIN (AP) -- Achtung, baby: U2 will play a free concert in Berlin to help the city celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Music network MTV said the Irish rockers will perform in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Nov.
A peeved trader plans to give drunken revellers the shock of their lives if they continue urinating against his shop front.
Ever since Roger and Me (1989), I have loved the work of Michael Moore. No one else has chronicled the screwing of America by the rich and powerful as beautifully as the kid from Flint, Michigan.
Michael Moore has enraptured at least one Catholic priest in Ireland.
We imagine many readers will be, like us, appalled by the dreadful performance of the Irish electorate in their recent referendum on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. Though maybe it's not entirely fair to blame them for the mess it leaves us in.
I am still in shock at this horrendous event. Kennedy was the best spirit of the Democrat Party. In the coming days we will all learn of the great accomplishments of Senator Ted Kennedy.
Fans of the Harry Potter series may want to experiment with this old recipe for butter beer, passed along from an Irish grandmother.
Religious fever has taken root in the Irish village of Rathkeale, Co Limerick, after workmen claimed the image of the Virgin Mary appeared in the remains of a felled churchyard tree.
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MM: "Gaza is a huge occupied territory of one-and-a-half million people who have been subjected to collective punishment by the Israeli government. That breaks the Geneva Convention, every international law in the book".
LIFE's a @!$%# for the Irish -- we just love to moan.
How did the Catholic Church become such a breeding ground for pedophiles? Is it because the pedophiles knew that the Church would never report them to the police; but would just transfer them from parish to parish each time hints of their offenses began to surface? Did pedophiles …
Doctors were stunned when an Englishman awoke from a brain operation in the UK and started speaking with a thick Irish accent. Chris Gregory was born and bred in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and has no family ties with Ireland.
After his brain operation, Chris Gregory woke up a new man. An Irishman actually. And just to be sure, to be sure, the 30-year-old Yorkshire man sat up in his hospital bed and sang a stirring rendition of Danny Boy to his astonished fiancee.
Israel shoots an Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire has been shot with a rubber[-coated metal] bullet by the Israeli military while taking part in a nonviolent civil rights protest organised by Palestinians and Israelis.
O.k., so I was away for 4 days (Thursday - Sunday) at a conference for a not-for-profit I'm involved with (I was re-elected to the same position I've been in for the last 3 years).
We're delighted to report that the Irish Blood Transfusion Service is giving its full support to Dublin's "One City, One Book" - an annual initiative "designed to encourage everyone in the city to read the same book during the month of April each year".
One might have thought that the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States had for the moment offered the chance of a settlement of the country's great issues. Far from it.