Nine months on from her golden summer at the Olympics in London, and boxer Katie Taylor’s star shines ever brighter in the eyes of the adoring Irish public.

I doubt very much if Mansfield is twinned with Accra but these days the two can surely feel each other’s pain.

David Silva killed the ball exquisitely, looked up, saw his man and found him with a pass.

Details have been revealed of the format the planned biannual Four Nations internationsl soccer tournament could take.

Sporting his new African-style hairdo, David Beckham was greeted by a group of Zulu dancers on the tarmac at Durban International Airport today.