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  • Donegal have the form and incentive

    GAELIC GAMES: And so it comes to pass. The apprehensions of the GAA director general, Liam Mulvihill, at the launch of the Allianz National Football League, that the start of the competition would outstrip the finale in terms of public interest will be confirmed tomorrow in Croke Park. p

  • Mourinho 'will not be sacked'

    Jose Mourinho with his key players: Chelsea's chief executive, Peter Kenyon, has said the manager will not be sacked. "Jose has a contract until 2010," said Kenyon. "He has the clubs support." SOCCER: Peter Kenyon has promised that Chelsea will not sack Jose Mourinho at the end of the season. It had been widely assumed that the strained relationship between Mourinho and Roman Abramovich would end with the Portuguese leaving Stamford Bridge but Chelsea's chief executive pledged that there were no plans to remove the club's charismatic manager. p

  • Top GAA players will get €2,800

    GAELIC GAMES: The Gaelic Players Association last night released the text of their agreement with the GAA in respect of the proposed €5 million of public funding for player grants. p
Soccer

  • Teenager let loose at the wrong time

    Interview Mark Kennedy: Andy Fifield talks to the former Republic of Ireland international who looks back with some regret on a talent wasted p

  • Keane insists players aren't feeling the pressure

    English Championship: Sunderland boss Roy Keane will let his players do the talking as they home in on promotion back to the English Premiership. p

  • Wenger makes no promises on new contract

    English FA Premiership: The composed Arsene Wenger was a man at a slight loss yesterday. He has never seemed quite like that in his 11 years with Arsenal but the manager was still adjusting to the departure of his ally, David Dein, who was forced off the board on Wednesday. Uncertainty for Wenger creates instability for Arsenal. p

  • Late AC charge hard to resist

    Champions League semi-final: Paddy Agnew on how Berlusconi's favourites have hit form just in time p

  • Robinson returns to deny battling Rovers

    League of Ireland/Shamrock Rovers 1 Drogheda Utd 2: It may be much maligned in terms of match report intros but sometimes, folks, you simply have to bow to the inevitable . . . this was a game of two halves. The first was atrocious, but the second more than made up for it, with Rovers earning a deserved ovation from their fans at the end for the way they battled even if they couldn't quite find the finish required during four frantic minutes of injury-time to cancel out the second of Shane Robinson's two goals against his former club. p

  • Late Bray penalty denies Cork win

    Bray Wanderers 1 Cork City 1: Bray Wanderers came back from the dead when a controversial penalty in the third minute of added time by substitute Paul Caffrey gave them a point against Cork City in a tense clash at the Carlisle Grounds last night. p

  • Purcell stuns Derry

    Derry City 0 UCD 1: UCD stunned Derry City at the Brandywell last night and for Pat Fenlon it's been another bad week on Foyleside. Like the defeat in the Setanta Sports Cup in Drogheda on Tuesday, this was a poor display from Derry. p

  • Late Heary strike saves Bohemians

    Bohemians 1 Galway Utd 1: Considering the possession they enjoyed Bohemians could have taken full points. The fact they didn't is utterly their own fault. p

  • Longford move off the bottom

    Longford Town 1 Waterford Utd 0: Longford Town moved off the bottom of the Premier division table with their first win of the season against fellow strugglers Waterford. p
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  • Time for Donegal to stand up and becounted

    NFL Division One Final Donegal v Mayo: Donegal start tomorrow's decider on the back of losing 13 finals in a row. Keith Duggan explains why he believes this one should produce a different result p

  • Weekend previews

    A look at this weekend's gaelic games fixtures p

  • League is no joke when you're winning

    Sideline Cut: The general attitude to the league says a lot about the contrary nature of the Irish. Back in February, the opening night of the competition attracted a massive crowd of 80,000, all in carnival mood. Now we have reached the final of the same competition, the GAA money men will be pleased if even a third of that number show up. p
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  • Irish boys a growing concern

    Under-19 World Cup: Gavin Cummiskey looks at the problem of size and what the IRFU are doing about it p

  • Passion and pride could swing it for Scarlets

    European Cup semi-finals/Leicester Tigers v Llanelli: If rugby matches were decided by sympathy votes alone, there would be only one winner of today's Heineken European Cup semi-final at the Walkers Stadium. One of the greatest of all Llanelli legends, Ray Gravell, is lying in hospital in Carmarthen having had part of his right leg amputated, and there would be no better tonic than a win for the Scarlets at Leicester's expense. p

  • Reddan menace helps to keep Wasps buzzing

    Downcast Munster supporters might find some tiny consolation in one of this weekend's Heineken European Cup semi-finals. Switch on the television tomorrow afternoon and Eoin Reddan will be scampering around the edges of the Wasps scrum in their all-English encounter with Northampton at the Ricoh Arena. p

  • Ulster rocked by late drop goal

    Celtic League/Cardiff Blues 20 Ulster 17: Ulster saw their Magners Celtic League aspirations ended in the most dramatic of climaxes as Nick Macleod kicked an injury-time winner for Cardifff at the Arms Park last night. p

  • UL Bohemians aim to seal second place

     All-Ireland League Preview: AIL League leaders Cork Constitution are guaranteed a home semi-final regardless of the outcome of their final match against Ballymena, who are safely out of the relegation zone. The real issues for the top teams in the final weekend of AIB All-Ireland League are which side ends up in the top four for the play-offs and which will occupy the second home-venue position. p

  • These babies will give it a real rattle

    Under-19 World Cup Final/South Africa v New Zealand: "It was a physical encounter and we will expect the same from South Africa. I don't think we have peaked yet but a semi-final win is a win." p

  • Ireland looking to finish on a high

    9th-10th Place Play-off/Ireland U-19 v Scotland U-19: It is hardly an auspicious finish for Ireland, who were ranked fifth before this competition began, but a play-off for ninth and 10th position was not totally unexpected. For the second time in this tournament they face Scotland (two tries apiece from Paddy Brophy and Eoin O'Malley helping Ireland to a 31-10 win over Japan and Scotland triumphing 11-7 over Fiji) to secure the meeting. p
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  • De Sivola 'still fresh'

    Scottish Grand National: Ferdy Murphy is hoping for some swift Grand National compensation at Ayr today following the disappointment of Joes Edge at Aintree last week. p

  • Dandy raring to get back on track

    Naas: Tracey Collins hopes to map out a campaign in the major sprints after Dandy Man has made his seasonal reappearance at Naas today. The four-year-old runs in the Woodlands Stakes, having finished runner-up in the same Listed contest over five furlongs last April. p

  • Macarthur takes chance

    Leopardstown: Macarthur, second favourite for the Epsom Derby with most bookmakers, makes his seasonal reappearance in the Group Three PW McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown tomorrow. p

  • Swan may change plans

    Punchestown: Charlie Swan could run Gold Cup winner One Cool Cookie in the Gold Cup at the Punchestown Festival on Wednesday. The Michael O'Leary-owned six-year-old was one of 16 entries for the Grade One Ellier Developments Champion Novice Chase next Tuesday but Swan may instead hold his charge back 24 hours. p
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  • Jacquelin continues to set the targets

    Asian Open: For the second time in seven days Raphaël Jacquelin of France finds himself looking down on the rest of the field at the halfway stage after a second round 69 in the BMW Asian Open stretched his lead to three strokes at the Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club. p

  • Calcavecchia takes charge

    PGA TOUR: Mark Calcavecchia added a second-round 69 to his opening 66 to set the clubhouse target of 135 at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, at the TPC Louisiana, in Avondale, yesterday. p
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  • Another ton for Hayden

    Australia kept their 100 per cent record intact at the World Cup with an emphatic 215-run win over New Zealand in a Super Eights match last night. p
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  • Doherty lays his cards on the table

    SNOOKER / World Championship: Johnny Watterson finds the former world champion in self-assured mood as he prepares for the journey to regain his crown at the Crucible p

  • Debut side fall short after fine retort

    HOCKEY: Monkstown almost caused the first shock of the All-Ireland Club Championship play-offs at Serpentine Avenue yesterday but were ultimately held off by Belfast's Annadale, who won their opening match 5-4. p

  • Federer gears up for French bid

    TENNIS: Roger Federer's career milestones have inevitably been millstones around the necks of his opponents. Yesterday the world number one rattled up his 500th victory, passing $30 million in prize money in the process, with Spain's David Ferrer, ranked a respectable 16th in the world, drowning 6-4 6-0 after a futile thrash against the inevitable in the opening games of their Masters series quarter-final. p
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