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  • Leinster left looking homeless

    Shane Horgan holds his injured knee and signals for attention before being helped from the field during last evening's European Cup Pool Two match between Gloucester and Leinster at Kingsholm. RUGBY/Gloucester 19-13 Leinster: They love a good battle on a pudding hereabouts. On a blustery, wet, throbbing night in Kingsholm, the Cherry & Whites faithful and their team cranked up the heat, so giving Leinster the kind of litmus test they have to come through if they are to be contenders. p

  • Cheika livid at inept display

    RUGBY: Coach and players alike could scarcely conceal their disappointment and frustration after Leinster effectively botched any chance they had of earning a vastly more favourable "home" quarter-final; whatever about it being lucrative. p
Soccer

  • United up Hargreaves bid

    English FA Premiership/Arsenal v Manchester United: Alex Ferguson will go into a weekend of potentially huge significance for the title race, not only hoping to extend Manchester United's six-point advantage over Chelsea but to put an end to the long-running transfer saga involving Owen Hargreaves. Ferguson said last night United had "hit a brick wall" but the club are hoping to break Bayern Munich's resolve after putting an offer in the region of £18 million into writing. p

  • Spurs set for bye as Feyenoord excluded

    UEFA CUP: Tottenham are set to receive a bye into the last 16 of the Uefa Cup after Feyenoord, their opponents in the next round, were last night excluded from the competition. The Dutch side's disqualification follows crowd trouble during their 3-0 defeat to Nancy in France in the group stages on November 30th. p

  • Wenger knows all about Larsson

    Arsene Wenger was smiling as he talked about Henrik Larsson yesterday but he must have been only half joking when he said the striker still gave him "nightmares". When Arsenal's manager comes up against Larsson tomorrow it will be for the first time since the Swede destroyed what had looked like becoming one of Wenger's most famous nights. p

  • Scots' shopping lists turn green

    The Exodus from League of Ireland clubs: Emmet Malone on the flight of Irish players to Scotland p

  • High hopes new kid will adopt well to Ireland cause

    Focus on James McCarthy: Gerry Coyle looks at the background to the 16-year-old prospect declaring for the land of his Donegal grandfather rather than his native Scotland p

  • Ahern calls for merger of FAI and IFA

    League of Ireland: The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, last night called for a merger between the FAI and IFA, arguing the move would provide substantial benefits to football across Ireland. p

  • Rivals adept at playing board games

    English FA Premiership/Liverpool v Chelsea: Dominic Fifield talks to a confident Rafael Benitez as he and Jose Mourinho reach their century of Premiership matches p

  • Lampard leaps to defence

    Kevin McCarra finds Chelsea's Frank Lampard in defiant mood as he defends his manager and team-mates p

  • Geoghegan set for post

    The former Shelbourne striker Stephen Geoghegan was last night set to succeed Pat Fenlon as manager of the troubled League of Ireland champions. The 37-year-old, who spent nine seasons at Tolka Park in a career that also included spells with Shamrock Rovers and Dundalk, returns to the club after a recent spell in non-league management. p
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  • Fear Rua clicks with GAA fans

     Gaelic Games Interview: Seán Moran talks to journalist, broadcaster and political handler Liam Cahill, now the man behind the hottest Gaelic games website p

  • Gaelic Games Previews

    Previews of the weekend's matches p

  • St Patrick's call it right

    St Patricks Navan 3-17 St Peters Wexford 0-12: A positional switch and a change of tactics completely transformed this Leinster Schools' SFC A round two qualifier at the O'Hanrahan's GFC grounds, Carlow, yesterday. p
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  • Fitting finale to follow familiar script

    Munster v Leicester Tigers:  In all of the 27 Heineken European Cup games Munster will have hosted at their Limerick citadel, none have been as potentially seismic as this p

  • A place that's pure Munster

    Declan Kidney, Paul O'Connell and Anthony Foley explain to Gerry Thornley why the old ground is such a special place p

  • Brennan set to call time on cup odyssey

    Pool Five/Toulouse v Ulster (Kick-off: Sunday, 1pm): A nothing game for either side but the French club will look to extract some revenge following their drubbing in the first game of the campaign at Ravenhill. p

  • Celtic Tigers in Leicester's ambush plan

    Pool Four/John O'Sullivan goes on a Tiger hunt in Leicester to discover the unique appeal of one of England's most famous rugby clubs p

  • Weekend previews

    The weekend's matches previewed p

  • Irish to be based in Bordeaux

    World Cup: The International Rugby Board (IRB) has released the pool-stage "base camp" locations for the participating teams in the World Cup in France. For the first time in the tournament's history each of the 20 teams will be located in a regional base camp, either a town or city. p

  • Connacht's focus on Celtic League

    European Challenge Cup/Harlequins v Connacht: Connacht will welcome the opportunity to conclude a most disappointing European season with a visit to the Stoop in England today (2.15pm). p

  • Rogers leads the way

    Schools' Rugby/CBC Monkstown 12 The King's Hospital 0: CBC Monkstown edged out The King's Hospital in this delayed Leinster Schools' Section B Vinny Murray Cup first-round tie at Seapoint yesterday. A quick start saw a ball to the front of a lineout driven over the line by captain James Rogers. Then, number eight Michael Noone's initial thrust set up prop Conor Ó Raghallaigh to break two tackles and make the line. Conor Banahan kicked the conversion. p
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  • Harrington closes in on leader Price European Tour

    Despite dropping two shots on the homeward run, Padraig Harrington is just one shot off the pace set by Phillip Price of Wales at the halfway mark in the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship in the United Arab Emirates. p

  • Irish pair well off pace in Sun City

    WORLD CUP : Ireland's Rebecca Coakley and Hazel Kavanagh made a disappointing start to the Women's World Cup of Golf at Sun City in South Africa yesterday - but Scotland were well placed in a tie for third place. p
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  • Byrnes is optimistic about Mountcharles

    Naas Preview: No problems are anticipated with today's Naas card going ahead but one trainer who will be very interested in the result of a morning inspection at Haydock is Charles Byrnes who hopes to run Mounthenry in the Grade Two Champion Hurdle Trial. p

  • Nickname looks one for Walsh

    Sunday Previews: Champion jockey Ruby Walsh is scheduled to be re-united with Nickname in tomorrow's Fairyhouse feature and the absence of the champion chaser Newmill looks to have left the door open for the ex-French star. p
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  • Williams pounces off the ropes

    TENNIS/Australian Open Championships: Serena Williams continued to make a mockery of such notions as lack of fitness and match play when she reached the last 16 of the Australian Open with a 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Nadia Petrova of Russia, who is supposedly the fifth-best player in the world. p

  • Roddick set to soar under Connors tutelage

    TENNIS: Call him the new Jimbo jet. Those who regularly despaired of Andy Roddick ever being able to change his game are now having to admit since Jimmy Connors became his coach last year, after Roddick had sunk to his lowest ebb, the former US Open champion is beginning to fly again. p

  • Glory days make Ali decline more moving

      Sideline Cut: As Muhammad Ali celebrates 65 years of a life that has become one of the most glorified of the 20th century, the question has turned from the why of his greatness and radiant appeal to whether it was all worth it. p

  • Hussey rubs salt into wounds

    CRICKET: England have heard ad nauseam about the Australian who always walks, but yesterday they suffered at the hands of the Australian who doesn't. Forget Adam Gilchrist, the moral hero of his cricketing age - kindly pay homage to Michael Hussey, the flint-hearted accountant who reckons that life balances out in the end. p

  • Coma crashes out of rally

    Dakar Rally: Long-time motorcycle leader Marc Coma crashed out of the Dakar Rally on stage 13 yesterday with the finishing line less than three days away. The Spaniard crashed his KTM 52 kilometres into yesterday's special stage between Kayes in Mali and Tambacounda in Senegal. p
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