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Man United 3 Leicester City 1: There are few at Old Trafford who yearn nostalgically for the late, lamented reign of David Moyes as Manchester United manager but the club’s young winger Adnan Januzaj would be forgiven if he were on that list.

Robin van Persie and Radamel Falcao were on target as Manchester United despatched Leicester 3-1 in their Barclays Premier League clash at Old Trafford.

The combined value of hotel sales is set to top €500m this year, and could exceed €1bn depending on certain sales being completed before year-end.

AS Irish hotel sales inch up to an end-of-year €500m tally, more hotels, north and south of the Border, have found new owners in the past week, in Wexford, Galway and Fermanagh.

The Department of Social Protection has been urged to stop dragging its heels over the Waterford Crystal workers pension row, after it emerged 30 of the firm’s ex-employees have died without any resolution.

It began with a phone call 11 months ago. Louis Mulqueen got in touch with Shane O’Donnell’s father looking for his son’s number.

Prices are down, capacity is up, and Ireland is poised to grow as a port of call. Pól Ó Conghaile on why there’s never been a better time to cruise.

New Order were the festival circuit veterans at Forbidden Fruit in Kilmainham.

MORE than 1,200 free third-level college places on offer to unemployed people are still unfilled three months after most courses began as part of a Government jobs drive.

FORMER Miss Ireland and social columnist Amanda Brunker will no doubt be hitting a few high notes when she joins seven other celebrities taking the reins of GAA teams for the hit RTÉ series Celebrity Bainisteoir.

Ardagh Glass is poised to float on the New York Stock Exchange and, if the move goes to plan, it will transform its main shareholder, Paul Coulson, from one of Ireland’s richest men into the realms of mega wealthy, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Blue-chip UK banks rallied today after the sector escaped a radical overhaul in a key government-commissioned report.

THE economic crisis and terms of the EU/IMF bailout mean the Government cannot commit to pay the estimated €13 billion actuarial cost of providing a state guarantee of the full pension entitlements of workers in cases of employer insolvency.

THE Waterford Crystal senior hurling tournament continues this weekend with the four quarter-finals down for decision.

THERE are just a couple of days to go before Crystal Ski ends the special package offers it initiated last year.

CRYSTAL SWING singer Derek Burke is bringing a special someone to his graduation ball today after RTÉ presenter Lucy Kennedy agreed to be his date for the evening.

UP to 220 people could yet be employed at the €25 million House of Waterford Crystal visitor and manufacturing centre which was officially opened yesterday.

TEN former workers with Waterford Crystal have brought a legal action against the state which has significant implications for the pension entitlements of all workers in circumstances of employer insolvency.

Rapper P Diddy is apparently planning to put the Crystal into Crystal Palace.

Light heavyweight prospect Tommy McCarthy is two bouts away from claiming an Irish title at the National Youth Championships just a few weeks after going all the way in the Ulster Senior Championships.

A BOSTON travel company has invested €3 million to merge with Cork-based firm MyguideIreland, enabling acquisitions and expansion.

Thomson tour company TUI today said difficult market conditions in the UK had caused wider first quarter losses at its Northern Europe division.

Bohemians 3 Waterford Crystal 1

Carna Transport Mercy 73 Vienna Woods Glanmire 64

Crystal d’Ainay will wear a visor for only the second time over hurdles when he bids for back-to-back victories in the Rendlesham Hurdle at Haydock tomorrow.

BARACOUDA will miss the totesport Long Walk Hurdle at Windsor on Saturday after an administrative error at Francois Doumen's yard ruled the French ace out of this weekend's showpiece.

UCD secured a SuperLeague Cup quarterfinal place tonight as they took a home victory over Neptune.

STAFF at Waterford Crystal’s two plants are to protest in Dublin next week over proposed job cuts which will have a devastating impact on the county.

Longford Town 5 Waterford Crystal 0

Longford Town 5 Waterford Crystal 0

THE Government will never manage to encourage enough Ordinance Survey staff to make a proposed move to Dungarvan in Co Waterford viable, a union boss has warned.

COACH Jim Nugent says Davenno Hines will be a key player as Neptune battle for a place in the play-off stages of the NIVEA for Men SuperLeague.

Baracouda, who will be bidding for back-to-back wins in Saturday’s Ballymore Properties Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury, looks like facing a strong challenge with both Telemoss and Crystal d’Ainay set to take their chance.

COACHES Pat Price and Jim Nugent insist they are putting points before passion when Mardyke UCC Demons and Neptune clash in tonight’s Cork derby SuperLeague game at The Mardyke Arena (8.15pm).

National Cup Champions Mardyke UCC Demons will take on defending league champions Abrakebara Tigers on Sunday in the game of the weekend in the Men's Basketball SuperLeague.

VICTORIES by four genuine Olympic medal hopefuls helped atone for a bitterly disappointing display by Britain’s 100 metres sprinters in the Norwich Union London Grand Prix at a sweltering Crystal Palace last night.

Tralee Tigers had little trouble containing Shamrock Rovers, running out for a 103-87 victory in the ESB Men's Superleague today.

FOLLOWING their demolition of Horan’s Health Foods Tigers in Tralee on Saturday night nobody wanted to draw Neptune in the quarter-finals of the ESB National Cup, but Waterford Crystal drew the short straw and must travel to Cork on the weekend of January 3-4.

UNBEATEN at the top of the ESB SuperLeague table, Horan’s Healthstores Tigers’ next joust is against Mardyke UCC Demons who travel to the Tralee Sports Centre tomorrow night.

Tralee Tigers continued their unbeaten run in the ESB Men's Superleague, defeating Waterford Crystal at home, 86-68.