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  • Laois set to test Dublin's mettle

    GAELIC GAMES: In the space of the two short years since the counties last met in the Bank of Ireland Leinster football final, the dynamics of the Dublin-Laois relationship have changed. In 2005 Laois were the more obvious choice going into the final but lost in the tightest of circumstances. p

  • Beckham touches down in a Galaxy far away

    David Beckham is crowned by the LA Galaxy team logo during a press conference introducing him as the newest member of the Major League Soccer team in Carson, California, yesterday. SOCCER: The arrival of an ageing midfielder at a struggling team currently second-bottom of the MLS (Major League Soccer) western division should not have needed a club official to insist it was "meant to be low-key". p

  • Charge by Els hints at easy victory

    GOLF: For a man with a footprint as big a Yeti and a swing on loan from the gods, Ernie Els has made little impression on the circuit for the past few months. But he looked more like the player he used to be rather than the player he has become yesterday as he moved into contention at the Scottish Open with a five-under-par 66 in the second round. p
Gaelic Games

  • Talking the talk, but also walking the walk

    Ulster SFC Final Tyrone v Monaghan: Keith Duggan chats with Tyrone's Ryan McMenamin ahead of tomorrow's decider p

  • Settled Dublin look to have the stronger hand

    Looking at the teams contesting tomorrow's Leinster football final it becomes evident Dublin have become a very settled side. Laois are the opposite. p

  • Youth of Laois have one more final fling

    Tom Humphries on how the best underage GAA structure in the country has been paying off for the O'Moore County p

  • Cork are the only qualified success

    Based on what we've seen in the qualifiers, only Cork are likely AllIreland contenders. For me, Clare v Galway has been the key game. We were looking forward to finding out the Galway formation, how it would perform and, ultimately, whether they would stake a claim as All-Ireland contenders. p

  • No one told Sligo they'd have dais like this

    Sideline Cut: The GAA broke into a whole new realm of weird injuries this week when an RTÉ news bulletin announced, deadpan, that one of the Sligo players had been hurt during the Connacht championship celebrations when the platform on which the cup was raised partially collapsed. p

  • Ulster preview

    Tyrone v Monaghan: In a throwaway remark this week the Tyrone forward Stephen O'Neill hit on one of the defining factors of this game. "We know right well how tough Monaghan will be," he said, "because they have one of the best trainers around in Martin McElkennon." p

  • Previews

    Two teams that hadn't banked on being in this position must reveal how good they are - or else it's goodnight for another year. p
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  • French ace has come a long way to the Bridge

    Spotlight on Malouda: Florent Malouda was a teenager when, armed with a backpack and words of encouragement from the France goalkeeper Bernard Lama, he bade farewell to family, friends and French Guiana and made for the sleepy town of Chateauroux. p

  • Messi and friends a tidy outfit

    Copa America Final: Argentina's sublime form so far suggests they can go all the way in tomorrow's final against Brazil, writes Richard Williams p

  • Ryan out for Rovers

    In the week Scottish goalkeeper Dave McEwan signed for Derry City and then picked up an injury that will keep him sidelined for several weeks, Ian Ryan has suffered similar misfortune after moving from Shamrock Rovers to Longford Town on loan. p

  • Grant sends United four clear

    League of Ireland/Drogheda United  1 Bohemians  0: It may be rash to suggest a club which waited as long as Drogheda did to win a trophy of any kind has had its fill of cups after picking up three in as many seasons. But as the home support celebrated Tony Grant's late goal here last night there seemed little doubt they'd have taken this win and the three points that come with it over the chance to change things, having suffered defeat by a similar scoreline in the cup to the Dubliners a few weeks ago. p

  • Cork seek hat-trick

    Intertoto Cup:   Cork City will bid to complete a Swedish hat-trick this afternoon (kick-off 3.0) when they face Hammarby in the second leg of their Intertoto Cup second-round tie in Stockholm. p

  • Soccer Digest

    Liverpool unveiled new signings Ryan Babel and Yossi Benayoun at a press conference at Anfield yesterday. Highly-rated 20-year-old Dutch international Babel was a €17 million purchase from Ajax; he can play as a striker or on either wing. p
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  • Sakhee's Secret sprints through the grades

    Sakhee's Secret completed his transition from handicaps to the highest echelons of the sprinting division by taking the Darley July Cup at Newmarket yesterday. p

  • Going will suit Profound Beauty

    As befits a classic race, the Darley Irish Oaks doesn't throw up too many "screamer" results, but Profound Beauty could be 20 to 1 value at the Curragh tomorrow to overturn the first two from Epsom, Light Shift and Peeping Fawn. p
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  • Perfect place for Ireland to polish up

    Training camp: Derek Scally goes to Spala, Poland, to see the facilities the Ireland rugby team are using to put the finishing touches to their preparations for the World Cup p
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  • Eyes wide open this time at 'Carnasty' 2007

    British Open Championship Carnoustie Golf Links: Philip Reid looks back at the rough time many players had the last time Carnoustie held the Open, and looks forward to this year's edition p

  • Rain, then fog, puts Irish PGA on hold

    IRISH PGA : Torrential rain initially and then a haar that rolled in from the Irish Sea combined to guarantee a day of frustration for the assembled field in the Irish PGA Championship at The European Club yesterday, reports John O'Sullvan . p
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  • Ireland must weather storm

    CRICKET/Ireland v West Indies: Ireland's preparation for today's match is made more difficult by the unpredictable nature of their opponents. Which West Indies team will show up at Clontarf is difficult to judge. Will it be the impressive outfit who have outplayed England over the last few weeks, who thrashed the Dutch on the same ground on Tuesday and who some judges, fast-turned pundit Colin Croft among them, tip to challenge for the World Twenty20 Cup in South Africa in September? p

  • Three Laser fleet still up for grabs

    SAILING/Dún Laoghaire Regatta: The one-design classes got the best of the conditions on Dublin Bay yesterday as the Volvo Dún Laoghaire Regatta powered up, despite the weather's best attempts to break spirits. p

  • Ireland's best lose track as purse strings tighten

    On Athletics: In the past week alone Ricky Simms has travelled from Paris to Lausanne to Rome on the back of the IAAF Grand Prix. It's unlikely you've heard of him but Simms is among the top agents in the sport, a considerable success for the 33-year-old from Donegal. p

  • Duddy aims to put on show of strength

    BOXING: John Duddy hasn't stepped into the ring in the National Boxing Stadium since February 22nd, 2002. He was an amateur then, yet to embark on a professional career that would yield an undefeated record of 20 wins and 15 knock-outs. p

  • Wiggins falters in great escape

    CYCLING/Tour de France: Bradley Wiggins has a strong sense of history, but as he spent 119 miles on his own in front during yesterday's stage, he was unaware the date had strong resonances for any British cycling fan, particularly those of a certain age. July 13th, 1967 was the day of Tom Simpson's death on the Mont Ventoux, and Wiggins's courageous but ultimately fruitless escape was the kind of move Simpson would have understood. p

  • Heavy four lift gloom for Irish

    ROWING/World Cup Lucerne: Ireland's admirable men's heavyweight four charged into today's semi-final with a spirit-lifting win in their repechage in the blazing sunshine here last evening, rounding off a day in which Orlagh Duddy had secured a semi-final place straight from her heat in the lightweight single scull. But these were bright spells on a sometimes gloomy first day of the World Cup for the men and women in green. p

  • Americans leave Gillick well behind

    ATHLETICS: David Gillick got a fair idea of where he lies in world 400-metre running at last night's Golden League meeting in Rome, his eighth-place finish some way off the leading Americans. The harsh draw of lane one certainly didn't help, but Gillick's time of 45.81 seconds was well off his recent best of 45.23, and even further off the winning 44.44 seconds of the American LaShawn Merritt, writes Ian O'Riordan. p
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