Georgia

By half-time in Yokohama you couldn’t but rethink your choice of couch attire for what was the final game in Pool A, possibly even deciding to swap yo(...)

The flight paths to Georgia from northern Europe take you over the Martian majesty of the Caucasus mountains, a bleak and barren wilderness of cliffs (...)

News of of Shane Duffy’s return may have added slightly to the need Mick McCarthy felt at his pre-match conference to do some dampening of expectatio(...)

In Algiers last Sunday, police arrested the reporter Sofiane Merrakchi on suspicion of having filmed a demonstration for Al Jazeera, whose coverage of(...)

New Zealand returned to the top of the world rankings after their opening World Cup victory over South Africa ended Ireland’s two-week stay at the su(...)

This is very definitely a World Cup for people who get up early in the morning. And with 48 matches over 44 days, the schedule will be a gruelling en(...)

The Group D permutations shifted somewhat in Ireland’s favour on Sunday evening as Denmark were held to a scoreless draw in Tbilisi, Georgia. Mick Mc(...)

The nearly deserted rain-lashed streets of Charleston, South Carolina, began to disappear beneath water on Thursday as Hurricane Dorian churned a few (...)

Rescuers searched for survivors in the Bahamas on Wednesday after Hurricane Dorian, the most damaging storm to strike the island nation, left in its (...)

Hurricane Dorian, now a Category 2 storm, finally began to inch away from the Bahamas on Tuesday, after pounding the islands with unrelenting rain and(...)