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  • Brennan celebrates a vintage season

    Limerick's Donal O'Grady and Eoin Kelly of Waterford in action during Sunday's All-Ireland hurling semi-final in Croke Park. 'This has been the greatest year (of hurling), certainly since the mid-1990s," says GAA president Nickey Brennan Gaelic Games: GAA president Nickey Brennan, reflecting on a hugely successful weekend's championship action, has described the hurling season as the best in over a decade. p

  • Hickie adieu will hit club, country

    Rugby: Despite the best efforts of Eddie O'Sullivan and Michael Cheika to dissuade him, Denis Hickie yesterday announced his decision to retire from rugby after the forthcoming World Cup. p
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  • Freeman details the hurt in Monaghan

    Monaghan footballer Tommy Freeman has described Sunday's dressing-room in the aftermath of the All-Ireland quarter-final defeat as the worst he's experienced. Monaghan lost by just a point to the champions, Kerry, who did not take the lead until the 68th minute. p

  • Busy Croke Park pitch comes in for praise

    Although there remains plenty of activity to come in the weeks ahead, the Croke Park playing surface has emerged from its busiest phase of the year with its reputation greatly enhanced. p
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  • Rooney set for two months on sidelines

    Steve McClaren is facing up to the grim possibility that Wayne Rooney could miss four of England's last five Euro 2008 qualifiers after confirmation that the hairline fracture in his left foot suffered on Sunday will sideline the Manchester United striker for at least two months. p

  • Jol forced to plug holes

    Tottenham v Everton: Martin Jol will have to field another makeshift central defensive partnership against Everton tonight as Michael Dawson has been ruled out for at least two weeks with ankle ligament damage. The Tottenham manager is ready to go back into the transfer market for reinforcements in the position and is expected to make an offer for West Brom's Curtis Davies. p

  • O'Brien signs for Bolton

    Irish News: After a year in the wilderness of the Portsmouth reserves, Andy O'Brien finally left the English south coast yesterday, a €1.8-million move to Bolton Wanderers offering the 28-year-old defender the chance to get his career back on track. p

  • St Patrick's struggling to scale heights on the pitch

    On Soccer: When Brian Kerr returned to Richmond Park amid some fanfare back in March he suggested a top-five position was as much as St Patrick's Athletic could aspire to in the first season of new owner Garrett Kelleher's reign. After Friday's game in United Park, the remarks seems prescient. p

  • Soccer Shorts

    Rangers step into the unknown Walter Smith has admitted Rangers face a step into the unknown when they host Red Star Belgrade in the first leg of their Champions League third qualifying stage tie tonight (kick-off 8pm), and not just because the famous club is now called Crvena Zvezda. p
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  • It's only a matter of when for Woods

    The future, according to golf's chosen one, is for more of the same. That is, gathering majors, making history. On Sunday evening, as Tiger Woods rolled in a par putt on the 72nd hole of the 89th US PGA Championship at Southern Hills to win his 13th major, he took another step in the relentless and obsessive chase of Jack Nicklaus's record haul of 18. Only Woods, so far, has reached each milestone quicker. It seems only a question of when, not if, he overtakes the Golden Bear. p

  • Topping US list now on Harrington's radar

    Suddenly, there is a new goal for Padraig Harrington. p

  • Heat and Bible Belt fail to make Tiger buckle

    Caddie's Role: We arrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the 89th PGA Championship amid rumours the hot spell had arrived and was due to plant itself in the state for the foreseeable future. If there is something that is predictable in the United States of Amazement it is the weather.Weather forecasters, especially inland, tend to speak the truth. We jumped out of the plane and it felt like we had opened the oven door while the fan was blowing. It was a burning wind and a temperature that felt like 150 degrees. p

  • One town with eighteen to play

    Course development/Wexford GC:Johnny Watterson visits Mulgannon to find out how one club has pre-empted the pressures of urban sprawl p

  • Nicklaus opts for youth and form in Presidents

    Presidents Cup 2007: Jack Nicklaus opted for form and youth while Gary Player went for matchplay experience when naming their captain's picks yesterday for next month's Presidents Cup in Canada. p

  • The Short Game

    Ulster bid for hat-trick Ulster will be bidding for a third title on the trot when they defend the Interprovincial Championship at Co Louth GC, Baltray, starting tomorrow. Led by recently crowned South of Ireland champion Darren Crowe, the champions will, however, be without their two recently selected Walker Cup players, Rory McIlroy and Jonathan Caldwell. p
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  • Relief widespread as squad hit training camp

    After a sodden summer's pre-season punctuated by two treks to Spala in Poland and last weekend's detour to a soaked Murrayfield, the 30-man Irish squad began their five-day warm-weather training camp in southwest France in temperatures in the mid-20s. p

  • Ashton invests faith in tried and trusted

    An element of surprise was missing yesterday as England's World Cup squad was unveiled without fanfare. Brian Ashton will head for France with an overwhelmingly tried-and-tested group of 30. If the head coach was ever tempted to gamble on a wild card, his chips remained firmly in his pocket. p
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  • Dundalk sits its final mocks

    The final major dress-rehearsal ahead of the opening of Ireland's first floodlit all-weather racetrack will take place at Dundalk today when four "mock" races will be run on the new Polytrak surface. p
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  • India duly claim the series but England reclaim their pride

    Cricket: To India, with justification, went the spoils of this series but in batting out the final day in some measure of comfort England reclaimed a little of the self-esteem they had lost at Trent Bridge and in the course of India's mammoth first innings here. p

  • Scots pile on tedium at Stormont as hacks left with just desserts

    On Cricket: The first day of Ireland's Intercontinental Cup tie against Scotland last week was the worst day's cricket I've ever seen. This is no idle boast; I've seen some really bad ones. p

  • Sports Digest

    Sailing/Chieftain sets sail in delayed Fastnet race: After a 25-hour postponement - the first in its 82-year history - the Rolex Fastnet Race finally started off Cowes yesterday morning, writes David Branigan .   p
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