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  • McDowell's second may prove good launch pad

    GOLF: Sometimes, winning isn't everything; even for a professional golfer. And, in time, Graeme McDowell - who has rededicated himself to the PGA European Tour - may reflect on his runners-up finish to Markus Brier in the China Open as a significant turning point in pursuit of a place in the world's top-50, something that had seemed as attainable as reaching Mars for much of a miserable season in 2006. p

  • Rocky spell but Fenlon not out of his league

    SOCCER: It's a measure, perhaps, of the progress made by Stephen Kenny in his couple of years at the Brandywell that his successor, Pat Fenlon, now finds himself coming under pressure to provide early evidence he can bring Derry City to the "next level". p

  • Cheika stresses league's importance

    Lisa Brick, Stephanie Coleman, Vikki Pettit and Niamh McCarthy from the Clonakilty Womens rugby team who hope to win the Kinsale Sevens Rugby Summerfest for the third year in a row. The event takes place from May 5th to 7th RUGBY/Celtic League: The contrast in excitement levels from a year ago is a little depressing for the Irish rugby supporter. Remember, this was the week the Red Army were prepping vocal chords ahead of the storming of Lansdowne. p
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  • Start at the end of a long road for Smith

    There have been times over the last year when Alan Smith has cut a sorry figure, sitting alone in the stand at Old Trafford, watching his Manchester United colleagues doing just fine without him and wondering when, or maybe if, he would ever get a chance again. It has been a tortuous, sometimes torturous, rehabilitation for the forward after snapping his leg like a bar of seaside rock at Liverpool 14 months ago, but he is finally entitled to think the nightmare is over. p

  • Derry must win by two in Drogheda

    The top spots in Group One of the Setanta Sports Cup will be decided tonight, the big game taking place in Drogheda (kick-off 8.05), where Derry City must win by two goals if they are to bag a place in the competition's semi-finals. p

  • O'Connor goals seal victory

    Portadown 0 St Patricks Athletic 3: Seán O'Connor produced two second-half strikes to send St Patrick's Athletic, who rested a number of senior players, into the knockout stages. p

  • Cork dominate to make progress

    Cork City 2 Dungannon Swifts 1: Dungannon Swifts faced an impossible task when they travelled to Turner's Cross needing to win by seven goals to deny Cork City a place in the Setanta Sports Cup semi-final. Cork dominated the game despite playing several reserve-team players. p

  • Soccer Shorts

    Today's other stories in brief p
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  • 23,209 is a crowd, argue GAA

    The GAA has defended the decision to stage last weekend's NFL semi-finals at Croke Park. The double bill of Galway-Mayo and Donegal-Kildare attracted just 23,209 paying customers, but the association's information officer, Feargal McGill, argued different points of view had to be weighed up and the attendance did not differ significantly from the norm for semi-finals. p

  • Ó hAilpín stars in Carlton fightback

    Former Cork All Star Setanta Ó hAilpín has given the most acclaimed performance of his 15-match AFL career for Carlton in last weekend's round three match of the Australian Rules premiership. p

  • Offaly proposal causes headaches

    Central Council's decision to defer a final ruling on the nature of next year's Division One has caused scheduling difficulties for the GAA's Competitions Control Committee. p
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  • Still some light at end of Cup tunnel

      On Rugby: Last week's decision by the ERC to press ahead with a Heineken Cup next season, and the statement that accompanied it, may well have raised more questions than answers. Nonetheless, it showed a willingness to maintain a magnificent tournament that has been jeopardised through no fault of their own and players, coaches and rugby fans all want. It also showed leadership. p

  • RFU warning over European boycott

    European Cup: The English Rugby Football Union have written to Premier Rugby and the chairmen of all 12 English Premiership clubs highlighting the stark legal implications of their proposed European Heineken Cup boycott. p

  • England find space to thwart brave Irish effort

    Schools Rugby/Six Nations Tournament/England 23 Ireland 12: Ireland narrowly lost to England in the final of the Schools Six Nations in Glasgow. England went ahead in the 13th minute through a penalty from Rob Miller but the Irish pack got on top and grabbed their first try through scrumhalf Matthew Healy. Ian Madigan missed the conversion as Ireland led 5-3 at the break. p
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  • Teofilo rumours suspend markets

    Bookmakers were in the dark last night over the likely participation or otherwise of the unbeaten Teofilo in the Stan James 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 5th. p
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  • Sri Lanka are no match for Australia

    Australia cruised to their 20th successive World Cup win at the expense of an understrength Sri Lanka yesterday to make almost certain of topping the Super Eights table. p

  • What a difference one-day makes

    Richard Gillis ponders Ireland's new-found status and looks at the likely implications, financial and competitive, for cricket here p

  • Birrell ready for an emotional farewell

    Ireland coach Adrian Birrell is preparing for an emotional farewell when the team play their last match of the World Cup against Sri Lanka in Grenada tomorrow. p
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  • Taking the battle from the boardroom to the fairways

    John O'Sullivan reports on the launch of the Business Golf Challenge at The K Club and explains the thinking behind the decision to hold the competition p

  • Weekey chips in twice for victory

    Boo Weekley spectacularly chipped in to save par on the last two holes and claim his maiden PGA Tour victory by a shot at the weather-delayed Heritage Classic in Hilton Head, South Carolina yesterday. p

  • Big is not always beautiful

    Philip Reid on how modern course designs, obsessed with length and thus ever more punishing, are taking much of the fun from the game for the average golfer p

  • Men in green ensure Augusta is the toughest Master

    Caddie's Role: A few days of post-major wind down gave me time to reflect on what was the toughest Masters I have experienced. You would not last long if you had to endure those conditions each week. All of my colleagues felt the same way too. p

  • Royal County Down claims top honour

    If a week is a long time in politics, a year is an eternity in golf course punditry. Yet, in the case of Royal County Down, which will stage the Walker Cup next September, the virtue of patience has been fully rewarded after the links was selected as the country's top course for 2007 by Golf Digest Ireland in a rather spectacular turnaround, a year after it failed to break into magazine's top-10. p

  • The Short Game

    Today's other stories in brief p
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  • Rebellion in the air at paradise

    TENNIS/Monte Carlo Masters Series: The central court at the country club here is the most sublime setting in world tennis, especially on a day such as yesterday when the weather was still and warm and the Mediterranean like deep blue glass. But there was trouble in paradise. p

  • Russia and Kenya take honours

    BOSTON MARATHON: Lidiya Grigoryeva of Russia won the rain-soaked Boston Marathon's women's race yesterday to become the first non-Kenyan woman to win in eight years and first Russian to take the top prize in 14 years. p

  • Twins land medal haul

    SWIMMING: Limerick twins Fiona and Éimear Doyle have qualified to represent Ireland at the European junior championships in Antwerp in July. p

  • Dervan in good form

    CYCLING: Irish road race champion Siobhan Dervan showed her continuing progress on the international circuit when she finished a fine 21st in the 1.1-ranked Novilon Internationale Damesronde van Drenthe in the Netherlands on Sunday. Dervan was classified in the same time as winner Giorgia Bronzini. Current world champion Marianne Vos was second ahead of Ina Teutenberg. p
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