Ronan O'Gara will join Jonathan Sexton at Racing Metro next season as kicking coach.

Munster are set to name a new main shirt sponsor, the province said yesterday, on a day the Thomond Park Stadium Company Ltd reported its operating profits had almost halved last year to €354,000.

It's a story familiar to GAA people all over the country. A stormy annual general meeting, members walking out, transfer applications handed in afterwards.

Alex Ferguson has confirmed Anders Lindegaard will start his final game as Manchester United manager – and Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand will be on the bench.

Ian Poulter today labelled his performance as "disgusting, disgraceful and unacceptable" as he crashed out of the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Bulgaria.

Team-mates, managers, politicians and fans queued up to pay tribute to the retiring David Beckham yesterday, a fitting reaction to the exit of a player who transcended his sport.

By Ian CusackLeinster are eighty minutes away from adding the Challenge Cup to their trophy cabinet, but even with home advantage and the added motivation of ending Joe Schmidt's tenure with another European triumph, nothing can be taken for granted against an unpredictable Stade Francais outfit.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger would "fancy" a play-off for Champions League qualification with Chelsea – but challenged his team to just concentrate on securing the "compulsory" victory at Newcastle this weekend.

Rafael Benitez yesterday declined to reveal if he will take part in his Chelsea squad's lap of appreciation following tomorrow's final match of the season at Stamford Bridge.

Juan Mata is targeting winning the Barclays Premier League with Chelsea after adding the Europa League to his already impressive haul of silverware on Wednesday night.

A 10% tax on fizzy drinks, sweets, biscuits, crisps, and chocolate is to be recommended to the health minister as a way of tackling the country's soaring obesity problem.

A 24-hour prayer vigil for fine weather has been held on the Kerry-Cork border.

WHEN Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first dreamed up the concept of a television show based in the unexplored universe of Outer Space in 1964, the world was a very different place.

Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured women dressed not just as sexy nuns and nurses, but also as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor that the former Italian premier has accused of persecuting him.

The valuation and sale of IBRC loans has been pushed out by six months to November and December of this year.

Founded four decades ago, its annual turnover is now €2bn.

Over the course of almost half a century, Liam Sammon has been in service to Galway football. Now he hopes a new generation can restore county pride.

Joe Schmidt's side won their third European trophy in successive years and gave Connacht reason to celebrate also as the Westerners gained entry to next season's Heineken Cup courtesy of their neighbours to the east.

YOUR wardrobe isn't the only thing that needs updating once the barometer starts to rise.

Did you cry with your buddy while watching Fergie say farewell at Old Trafford?

Today, inspirational teenager Dónal Walsh will be buried. This is an essay he wrote about how he dealt with his two crushing cancer diagnoses

A Fine Gael TD has revealed that pro-life activists have threatened to slit her throat and burn down her house.

A sheep thief was caught red handed at a mart in Kerry after a lamb he was trying to sell spotted his owner in the crowd and ran to him.

It's a story familiar to GAA people all over the country. A stormy annual general meeting, members walking out, transfer applications handed in afterwards.

I love yoga but I don't love the yoga image, the squeaky clean yogi whose practice of yoga has led to a more highly evolved state of being than your average mortal.

More than 300,000 people have left Ireland in the past four years. Tempting as it is, Ruairí McKiernan is prepared to stay to help make the country a better place

Croke Park officials have been left red-faced after Tipperary forward Lar Corbett and Kilkenny defender JJ Delaney were cleared to line out in the first round of their respective provincial championships.

Kerry teenager Donal Walsh has passed away after losing his battle with cancer.

DÓNAL Walsh will be buried today having fought two battles in his short life — one with cancer and one with our health service.

IF THERE'S a season for dieting then it has to be summer.