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There was a Monday morning towards the end of 1995 when Lee Carsley, then a 21-year-old midfielder with Derby County, was reflecting on his absence from the first team the previous Saturday. Carsley ...

Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are learning English. Some even go abroad to study, with an increasing number coming to Ireland. The country's language schools say they are busier ...

The life of the mind puzzles poets and neuroscientists who go about mapping it and labeling it, and, in my case, trying to find it. Thought itself is something to ponder in the Irish tradition and so, ...

When the Republic of Ireland under-17 team defeated Andorra 5-0 in Cork last October, not many beyond the participants paid the result much attention and, understandably, few of them will have ...