Brothers Kevin and Brian Cooper were the heroes as Marist College bridged a 35-year gap to capture the Connacht Schools Senior Cup at the Sportsground yesterday.

Mitt Romney is fighting his way back into the driver’s seat in the Republican presidential race, putting in a strong debate performance in Arizona and gaining in polls against conservative rival Rick Santorum.

Mitt Romney said yesterday he has overcome his South Carolina setback and returned to the Republican primary forefront by aggressively returning Newt Gingrich’s fire and by presenting himself as a Washington outsider.

Polls show Newt Gingrich will probably be hammered by Mitt Romney in the crucial Republican primary election in Florida tomorrow.

WITH an asset base worth €2.6 billion, 17 religious orders have been asked by the state to find up to €350 million in cash or property as an additional contribution to the redress deal.

AN INSPIRED performance by Colm Egan, brother of Westlife’s Cian, was not enough for Sligo Grammar at the Sportsgrounds yesterday.

A TRY nine minutes from time by Irish schools international Conor Fitzgibbon helped give Marist College, Athlone victory over a battling Calasanctius College side in Oranmore yesterday in the quarter-final of the Connacht Senior Schools Cup.

WHATEVER you think about using grating words, at the end of the day it’s actually better not to say whatever, if you know what I mean.

IAN DOWLING, out of action since late December, returns for Munster’s crucial Magners League clash with Edinburgh at Murrayfield tonight (7.30) in a make-or-break game for both sides.

A post mortem examination will be carried out today on a teenage boy who died at school.

Munster 8 Connacht 11

IN many ways, this morning’s date with Southland was the game no British and Irish Lion wanted to be a part of.