West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady has suggested Tottenham would be refused access to the Olympic Stadium if their London rivals sought a move to the Hammers’ new home.

SAILING: Four-time Olympic champion Ben Ainslie is confident his £80 million (€99m) America’s Cup team can follow the example of Team Sky’s cycling success at the Tour de France and bring sailing’s oldest trophy back to British shores.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle is in talks to direct a movie about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, with Leonardo DiCaprio tipped to star in the title role.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle is in talks to direct a movie about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, with Leonardo DiCaprio tipped to star in the title role.

Mel C wants to write an autobiography when she's 80.

Dr Rod McLoughlin was yesterday named IRFU’s Head of Medical Services with responsibility for managing a system which provides world-class care to professional players.

The idea of Ireland hosting Euro 2020 was mooted by the FAI last year. Ireland has also been suggested as a host for the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

Easyjet, Europe’s second-biggest discount airline, said full-year earnings beat its forecasts following a surge in demand for flights from London after the end of the 2012 Olympic Games.

Wilson Kipsang snatched victory from fellow Kenyan Micah Kogo in the UK's Great North Run thanks to a dramatic sprint finish that went right to the line.

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve enjoyed the spectacle of the Olympics at London 2012 and rejoiced in Irish competitors winning their various medals.

It was generally accepted that boxing took a step backwards in Trabzon when teenage sensation, Joe Ward, was dumped out of the Olympic qualifying tournament on the back of what was a dreadful decision that robbed the 2012 Olympic Games of one of the best boxers in the world.

It’s a contest that fans of Irish national hunt racing would go a long way to see.

Ireland is one of the world's most inactive nations; a new global study reveals we're the seventh worst country for lack of exercise among 36 nations.

In 1982, screenwriter Colin Welland famously decreed, “The British are coming!” as he collected his Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, shortly before ‘Chariots Of Fire’ surprised everyone by taking home the statuette for Best Picture.

MARLAY Park in south Co Dublin is a vast space. A collection of large lawns, football pitches and playgrounds, it is surrounded by motorways and busy roads. On a grey Friday afternoon, with clouds assembling and gliding over the nearby Dublin Mountains, two people trot around it, each with very different goals.

Director Regan Hall puts cinema audiences under starter’s orders for the 2012 Olympic Games with this feel-good drama of sporting ambition against the odds.

Rihanna has landed a role in the sixth 'The Fast and the Furious' film.

BASKETBALL IRELAND chiefs last night blasted RTÉ’s decision not to broadcast next year’s National Cup finals on television.

IRISH boxing is looking likely to have at least one other man between the ropes at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

FARM plastic recycling takes another step forward at next week’s National Ploughing Championships, with a Northern Ireland based company offering farmer a deal whereby big bale wrap plastic can be leased, and returned for recycling after the silage is eaten.

Nadine Coyle has confirmed that Girls Aloud will reunite for their 10th anniversary next year.

Girls Aloud are set to perform at a music festival being held to mark the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

SECURITY firm Netwatch are expanding in Britain having secured £1 million (€1.15m) in client orders, putting it on track to double its turnover by the end of the year.

World champion boxer Katie Taylor has been conferred with the freedom of Co Wicklow.

Stella McCartney says it's a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to design the Adidas competition wear for the 2012 Olympic Games.

DENIS LYNCH may have withdrawn from the Irish team, but it is not a case of no way back.

SHOWJUMPER Denis Lynch has quit the Irish team and is considering the possibility of declaring for Germany, his long-time home.

ATHLETICS: World steeplechase champion Marta Dominguez again protested her innocence after appearing before a Madrid court yesterday to give evidence as part of the Spain‘s investigation into doping.

Stella McCartney has launched a shopping website - just days after giving birth to her fourth child.

SPORTSMEN and women who might have been looking upon Britain’s strategic spending review as a bellwether for the much-dreaded Irish Budget on December 7 have 42 sleepless nights left.

TWO of the 7/7 bombers posed as characters from the A-Team in joke text messages on the eve of their suicide attacks, it was revealed yesterday.

The London 7/7 bombers evaded detection by buying unregistered pay-as-you-go mobile phones which they used for only a few weeks before dumping them, an inquest has heard.

GARY Keegan was looking for a way to explain to his boxers that improvement would be gradual, not sudden. He hit on a simple visual aid.

DRAMATIC phone calls have revealed how the emergency services struggled to cope with the chaos sparked by the July 7 suicide bomb attacks in London.

KATIE TAYLOR, currently the best female boxer in the world and Ireland’s leading hope of a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, will launch her bid for a sensational third world lightweight title in Barbados today.

GALWAYMAN Neil Carney may not be an athlete but he is about to get in training for the marathon of his life.

IN the middle of World Cup fever a survey has highlighted the resilience of global sports markets.

IRISH companies have so far clinched more than €200 million worth of contracts for the 2012 Olympic Games.

CLOTHING retailer Next and DIY chain B&Q both reported profitrises yesterday, beating analysts expectations.

PATSY McGONAGLE will lead the Irish track and field team into the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

A Irish company today won the contract to build the ’greener’ red London bus.

Helsinki will host the European Athletics Championships for a third time in 2012, which will also be the first occasion the event switches to a two-year cycle.

KATIE TAYLOR, pictured, has indicated that she would have remained an amateur fighter even if her dream of competing at the 2012 Olympic Games had not been made possible this week.