In its latest employment forecast report the ESRI has predicted that employment growth will be strongest in Dublin over the next six years, with the overall proportion of women in employment on the increase.

Colin Montgomerie and Bernhard Langer today carried on where they left off in last year’s Ryder Cup on the opening day of the UBS Cup in Georgia.

TONY JACKLIN, Europe’s most successful post-War Ryder Cup Captain, has been granted the opportunity to pit his leadership skills against the USA once more.

Richard Hughes and Mark Johnston were the biggest winners as the Great Britain and Ireland team captured the 2002 Blue Square Shergar Cup at Ascot today as they defeated the Rest of the World by 137 points to 110.

WARREN GATLAND is hoping the clash between the Rest of Ireland and Munster at Thomond Park tomorrow week will be a no-holds-barred contest to boost chances of a big Irish representation on the Lions tour to Australia.