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Australia 19 New Zealand 27

Sonny Bill Williams made a triumphant return to ANZ Stadium as New Zealand claimed victory over Australia in the Rugby Championship opener.

I OFTEN wondered what those people working in the high-rise office block behind the Shelbourne Hotel thought of it all.

DOWN tyro Jamie O’Reilly insists he has no regrets about leaving home to concentrate on an AFL career with Richmond Tigers despite the Mourne men’s progression to the last four in the All-Ireland championship.

SOMETIMES in this journalistic game you look back upon things you wrote years earlier and wonder how you could possibly have got it so wrong.

AT LEAST one of the Irish players heading down under for the International Rules series will be playing Australian Rules professionally within months, according to the Australian media.

IRISH AFL star Tadhg Kennelly is recovering from a meningitis scare.

All Blacks centre Ma’a Nonu has dropped a bombshell on the rugby world by saying he would be willing to switch codes and play rugby league in Australia after next year’s World Cup.

FEW families have contributed as much to the development of a GAA club as the Collins dynasty in Castlehaven.

JOHN KELLY’S name was conspicuous by its absence from the match programme pen-pictures on Saturday night.