Philip Allen

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Rory Best gets a send-off from fellow Irish players after his final game for Ireland at the Aviva Stadium, the World Cup warm-up against Wales in September 2019. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
Rory Best: ‘I just thought you played the game hard, and partied hard.’
  • Rugby
  • March 25, 2020, 06:00

“It was another one of those nights and I went in to the local chicken shop, as you do,” Rory Best says as he remembers a drunken time long before he (...)

The SDLP’s Mark Durkan on the Peace Bridge spanning the River Foyle in Derry, Northern Ireland. “It’s about getting back to the Agreement. Does that mean that people go back to supporting the SDLP? I don’t know. That’s a choice for future elections, and for the wider electorate.” Photograph: Trevor McBride
Mark Durkan on Belfast Agreement: ‘What are you going to replace it with?’

Twenty years after the murders of Philip Allen and Damien Trainor, Mark Durkan still thinks of them. The friends – one Protestant, the other Catholic(...)

Head chef Troy Watson and sous chef Dan McHugh at Roberta’s restaurant in East Essex Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dave Meehan
First phase of McKillen food emporium opens on Dublin’s quays

I’m standing next to a large, rectangular concrete-topped bar, flooded by natural light from a steel atrium overhead, in the heart of a new restaurant(...)

File photo dated February 9th of the scene where a 32-tonne lorry tipped over in Lansdown Lane in Upper Weston in Bath, UK. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA Wire
Two arrested after four killed in truck collision in Bath
  • UK
  • February 17, 2015, 10:57

Police in the UK have arrested the driver of a 32-tonne tipper truck which struck and killed four people, including a four-year-old girl, on Februa(...)