Sport Ireland has dedicated over €10m in high-performance funding to this year’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, its highest ever support at this level.

“To come in off the water and know that it’s done and dusted is just amazing. (I’m) so happy.”

With just two races remaining at the Laser Radial World Championships in Japan this morning, Aoife Hopkins has moved into 41st place overall in the 55-strong Gold fleet finals series.

Carlow Olympian Finn Lynch delivered a promising sixth place in his opening race of the Laser event at the Hempel Sailing World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark yesterday.

Oscar-winning American actress Patty Duke, widely known for the 1960s show The Patty Duke Show, died yesterday, her representative told Reuters. She was 69.

Off-licence owner Pat Keller used an umbrella to fend off a thief after driving to the scene in a hearse.

Nenagh off licence owner Pat Keller was forced to defend his business after finding a thief trying to steal from him.

Garbally College 19 Summerhill College Sligo 18: A masterful kicking display from Simon Keller, a first-half try from Michael O’Neill and some incredible last ditch defending in a frenetic finale saw Garbally College end their eight year wait for the Top Oil Connacht Schools Senior Cup title at the expense of a gallant and talented Summerhill College of Sligo.

The fact remains that this is a club with a default setting of one step forward followed by two back, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Schalke have appointed Roberto Di Matteo as their new coach after relieving Jens Keller of his duties on Tuesday morning.

Champions League Group G

Garbally College, Ballinasloe 10 Sligo Grammar 10

Australian astronomers say they have found a star 13.6bn years old, making it the most ancient star ever seen.

Firefighters tackled a giant blaze fuelled by 5,600 tons of rubber at the Port of Savannah in Georgia, USA, where a towering column of black smoke could be seen from miles away.

Jose Mourinho believes his Chelsea side “forgot” the reasons for their six-match winning streak in losing at Newcastle at the weekend.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been charged with improper conduct after being sent to the stands during his side’s 4-1 win over Cardiff on Saturday.

Woody Allen’s recent run of amiable comedies comes to an abrupt halt with Blue Jasmine (15), which stars Cate Blanchett as the very blue — as in, deeply depressed — eponymous heroine.

Although it ultimately lacks the courage of its twisted convictions, ‘Prisoners’ is a provocative thriller about a father who takes justice into his own hands when his little girl is abducted at Thanksgiving.

Victoria Beckham has been crowned Woman Of The Decade at the 2013 Glamour Women of the Year Awards in London.

St Mary’s College 19 Cork Constitution 24

Waterford City Council will spend €2.2m to buy 11 houses it was informed were worth considerably less than half that amount.

Hugh Jackman is to star in 'Prisoners'.

Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley’s sex life from its search results index, the Leveson Inquiry heard.

THE Grade 1 winner Miss Keller was the top price on the opening day of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale yesterday which saw rises across the board and overseas buyers, especially from Australia and Japan play a role.

The executive editor of The New York Times, Bill Keller, will step down this summer after eight years on the job and will be replaced by managing editor Jill Abramson, who will become the first woman to hold the newspaper’s top editing post.

Four New York Times journalists, including a Briton, have been reported missing while covering the fighting in Libya.

LIVERPOOL may have given children free tickets for the Europa League tie against Utrecht at but even they will have felt short-changed by the disappointing goalless draw against Utrecht at Anfield.

Liverpool 0 Utrecht 0

Striker Fernando Torres starts his first Europa League match of the season tonight as manager Roy Hodgson names his strongest available side to face Utrecht at the Station Galgenwaard.

The FTSE 100 sunk to its fourth losing session in a row today as under-fire BP took another tumble into the red and US growth figures disappointed.

BRITISH commandos freed a New York Times reporter in an early raid yesterday on a Taliban hide-out in northern Afghanistan. The journalist’s Afghan translator and one of the troops were killed in the rescue, officials said.

Will Smith is to play a real-life Hurricane Katrina hero in new film to be written and directed by someone named Hancock.

Katie Holmes made her Broadway debut in 'All My Sons' last night, and husband Tom Cruise thought it was a knockout.

Portsmouth 0 Fulham 1

Fulham have a fully fit squad for their Barclays Premier League finale against Portsmouth at Fratton Park.

Fulham striker Jari Litmanen is fit but will not participate in tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League clash with Birmingham.

IT could not have gone much worse for Sven Goran Eriksson.

Manchester City 2 Fulham 3

Fulham boss Roy Hodgson kept faith with the side hammered at home by Liverpool last week as the Cottagers looked to revive their flagging survival hopes by beating Manchester City at Eastlands.

Fulham 0 Liverpool 2

ROY HODGSON claimed not to have seen the rainbow which briefly glittered over the Madejski stadium after an apocalyptic April shower had given way to brilliantly bright sunshine. “I'm one of those old-fashioned managers who watches every kick of the ball,” he said, with a weary tone.

Fulham will be without striker Eddie Johnson for tomorrow’s trip to face Reading in the Barclays Premier League.

ROY KEANE is beginning to look forward to his summer. Ten weeks which could have been spent in bitter recrimination over a season gone horribly wrong now promise giddy excitement in Sunderland, with Premier League status virtually assured after Keane’s team found their form at just the right time.

Derby 2 Fulham 2

Fulham boss Roy Hodgson has made two changes for today’s rock-bottom Premier League clash with Derby at Pride Park with his side surely never standing a better chance of ending their 32-match winless streak away from home.

Striker David Healy is a doubt for Fulham’s visit to rock-bottom Derby after suffering an ankle injury on international duty with Northern Ireland.

IT is almost 10 years since Michael Owen announced himself as a major player on football’s international stage with a wonderful World Cup goal against Argentina in St Etienne.

Newcastle 2 Fulham 0

Roy Hodgson has no fresh injury worries ahead of the trip to Newcastle tomorrow.