Singleton’s Supervalu Brunell produced a ‘Houdini’ performance to dump championship favourites DCU Mercy out of the Paudie O’Connor Women’s National Cup with a stunning semi-final win at the Neptune Stadium.

Unbeaten DCU Mercy face Fr Mathews - who have lost just one of their opening four fixtures - in the headline game of this weekend's Women's SuperLeague.

Clay from the grave of a Corkwoman who survived the Famine to become one of America’s most famous trade-union activists will be removed in a special ceremony today for transportation to her native city.

Thanks Shane, we’ll be having nightmare for the week.

Wales 7 Ireland 12: Ireland Women’s head coach Tom Tierney is wary of the challenge his team face in Friday’s Six Nations Grand Slam decider with England.

Harbour pilot Ciaran Monks helps guide the Royal Princess into Cobh on the new series of Cork Mega Port on TV3.

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A man who stabbed to death his girlfriend and their six-year-old son will learn today whether his legal bid to inherit her estate has been successful.

Having heard fellow columnist Derval O’Rourke sing the praises of David Epstein’s The Sports Gene, nothing would do me but to track the man down for a chat, and we made contact last week.

JOHN RIORDAN The second instalment of Ali-Liston may have produced one of the most iconic images of sport in the 20th Century but there’s a refreshing spontaneity in the boyish wonder of Cassius Clay when he won the world heavyweight title for the first time.

MORALITY is the glue which binds society together. Without each individual’s sense of fair play, empathy and abhorrence of unnecessary violence, we could never co-operate. But when and how did these propensities develop?

Aidan O’Brien announced the probable riding arrangements for his three 2000 Guineas candidates at Newmarket on Saturday at Tipperary last night.

WHEN Bob Lipsyte was a kid in New York, he went to a total of two professional baseball games.

THIS afternoon, in Louisville, Kentucky, the bell will ring for a week-long birthday party in Muhammad Ali’s honour.

THE nights are drawing in on us, you’ll notice, ahead of another winter, like the cinema lights dimming before a movie.

Legendary heavyweight Muhammad Ali led the tributes to his “old friend” Sir Henry Cooper, who died on Sunday, describing him as “a great fighter and a gentleman”.

UNBELIEVABLE is just about the only word to describe Limerick last evening.

Rafael Nadal believes there is a good chance Novak Djokovic will replace him as world number one this summer.

Mikael D’haguenet was sunk without trace in the Grade 1 Bord na Mona With Nature Novice Chase at Leopardstown yesterday, victory going to Realt Dubh.

A gunman killed himself after he opened fire at a Florida school board meeting, police said today.

Remember so long ago when we stayed up until dawn to watch Clay and Liston and Frazier fighting their battles behind the snowfalls on black and white TV sets?

BRET EASTON ELLIS was 19 when he wrote Less Than Zero, a coruscating account of disaffected youth in his hometown, Los Angeles.

The daughter of the Reverend Martin Luther King has been chosen as the first woman to head the civil rights organisation that he co-founded.

The mayor of Michael Jackson’s home town, Gary, Indiana, said his cash-strapped city paid $5,000 (€3,498) to fly Michael Jackson’s father and seven other people out from Los Angeles to attend a July memorial for his son.

Top seed Dinara Safina confirmed her status as title favourite by crushing British number one Anne Keothavong on day two of the French Open.

SAN Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds struggled to describe his emotions after blasting his 755th career home run to equal Hank Aaron’s record on Saturday evening.

Tim Henman will have to wait until Tuesday before launching his assault on the French Open.

The lone US air traffic controller on duty the morning Comair Flight 5191 crashed had cleared the jet for takeoff, then turned his back to do some “administrative duties” as the aircraft veered down the wrong runway, a federal investigator said in Kentucky.

KING of clay Rafael Nadal is thrilled with his form after easing into his second successive French Open final.

A Texas man faces execution by lethal injection this evening for the 1993 Christmas Eve killings of a father and two children.

Exeter City 0 Manchester United 2

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Avica Technology has opened its European centre in Thurles, Co Tipperary and plans to create 50 new jobs.

ALBERT COSTA retained his position at the head of the Spanish Armada when he became one of four Spaniards to reach the quarter-finals of the French Open yesterday.

Ruben Studdard outsang Clay Aiken early today to become the new American Idol.

Michael Jordan’s fabulous career came to an end amid cheers and tears as his Washington Wizards were trounced 107-87 by the Philadelphia 76ers, who clinched home-court advantage in the first round of the play-offs.

Country and western star Clay Walker is used to having people watch him. He once sold 65,000 tickets in a day for a concert in Houston - more than Elvis Presley did at the same venue.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov strode to a stunning straight sets win over top seed Gustavo Kuerten in the quarter-finals of the US Open.

Tim Henman is through to the quarter finals of the Masters Series tennis tournament in Monte Carlo.