American Football: Tony Romo engineered a stirring second-half comeback to lead the Dallas Cowboys to a nail-biting 24-20 NFC wildcard win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday and a trip back to the divisional round to meet the Green Bay Packers.

American Football

High profile coaching casualties followed quick on the heels of the final day of the NFL’s regular season as the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Jets parted ways with their coaches yesterday.

Tom Brady won the battle of the marquee quarterbacks over Peyton Manning, while the Arizona Cardinals knocked off the Dallas Cowboys to claim the NFC’s best record.

Peyton Manning broke Brett Favre’s all-time record for touchdown passes, leading Denver to a 42-17 rout of San Francisco to cap a scintillating Sunday in the NFL.

Irish households became marginally better off during the first quarter of this year, according to new figures from the Central Bank.

New York takes all the credit, talking a big game and laying on the hottest Super Bowl bashes.

It’s rare that the two best teams in the NFL make it through to the Super Bowl.

A stunning comeback sent the Indianapolis Colts through to the next round of the NFL play-offs at the expense of the Kansas City Chiefs as the post-season got off to a thrilling start.

The Green Bay Packers needed their biggest comeback in history on Sunday to somehow keep their play-off hopes alive ahead of the long-awaited return of Aaron Rodgers from injury.

A win over divisional rivals Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday evening saw the Denver Broncos emerge from the toughest part of their NFL campaign relatively unscathed and in poll position in the AFC and will now retain home advantage throughout January’s play-offs.

The Denver Broncos will be sweating this week on the fitness of quarterback Peyton Manning, who led them to their eighth win of the season on Sunday but saw his injury-prone ankle targeted in the process.

The net worth of Irish households increased due the largest rise in house prices since 2007 and a fall in household debt which combined to give a per capita household worth of more than €100,000.

Even weary fans of the Dallas Cowboys could not have imagined how they would succumb to their nightmare defeat by the Detroit Lions when apparently in control of their NFC clash in Motown on Sunday.

John Riordan runs the rule over those hoping to impress in the new NFL season.

Deposit rates across the Irish banks increased in September at their fastest rate for over a year, while banks’ dependency on Central Bank funding has continued to recede.

THE Pittsburgh Steelers will be hoping star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger can survive 60 minutes of football tomorrow as the NFL wild card round gets going this weekend.

THE New England Patriots secured the number one seed in the AFC and home advantage for the NFL play-offs as they came from three touchdowns down to hammer the Buffalo Bills.

Thousands of stories like John B Keane’s The Field in the 227 million hectares sold or leased in large-scale land deals since 2001. Denise Hall reports.

HOUSEHOLD lending levels deteriorated further in June, but loans to businesses actually increased when compared to May.

Five hundred jobs are expected to be created in Europe's first third-level centre of excellence for franchise development, in Limerick.

NEW YORK has been buzzing this week ahead of Rex Ryan’s Jets’ AFC play-off showdown at their arch-rivals, the New England Patriots, tomorrow evening (9.30pm, Irish time).

IT WASN’T supposed to be like this.

ENTREPRENEURIAL activity is expected to “flourish” across the mid-west region in the coming years, but up to 80% of start-up companies will fail within their first five years of trading, unless they have the right experience mix, it has been warned.

DEFENDING champions New York struggled to score on Sunday but they managed a touchdown when it mattered most to defeat Pittsburgh 21-14 in a showdown of division leaders.

FA chairman Lord Triesman has branded Richard Bevan’s widespread attack on the way the game is being run as “foolish”.

PEYTON MANNING has a championship game to be at next weekend after all. He can go watch baby brother Eli guide the New York Giants.

AMERICAN football’s National Football League regular season concludes with a mad dash for the playoffs this weekend, with 11 teams still chasing three postseason berths.

TOM BRADY threw for 269 yards and a touchdown, while Asante Samuel picked off three passes as the New England Patriots beat Chicago 17-13 in a showdown of American football division leaders on Sunday.

Air accident investigators were tonight examining the wreckage of a light aircraft in which two men died when it crashed into a field in Co Westmeath.

CAROLINA quarterback Jake Delhomme was sacked eight times as the marauding Chicago defence made sure the Bears beat the Panthers 13-3 in a meeting of the NFC’s hottest two teams.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern recently declared that this country was unlikely to be a target of a major terrorist strike, a sentiment which possibly did not give comfort to everybody.

THE Dallas Cowboys’ star is shining brightly again. For the first time since 1999 they’re going to the playoffs.

PRIEST HOLMES had 158 combined yards and two rushing touchdowns and Trent Green threw for 368 yards and three scores, as the Kansas City Chiefs remained the National Football League’s lone unbeaten team with a 41-20 triumph over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.

THE New England Patriots, eager to prove their unlikely Super Bowl triumph was no fluke, are among a host of teams seeking to nail down a playoff berth in the final week of the National Football League regular season.

The launch of the 3G network on the Isle of Man for Manx Telecom has been announced.