Sligo ended their Division Three campaign with a flourish when defeating their neighbours at a wet Markievicz Park.

AN UNUSUAL friendship is the theme of Quick, Slow, Mango! By Anik McGrory (Bloomsbury; €7.10).

LAOIS rediscovered their early season form — when they won three Division Two games on the trot — as a sparkling second-half at Markievicz Park revived promotion hopes and left the hosts on the brink of relegation.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

A number of groups are meeting the new Junior Minister for Older People, Máire Hoctor today to urge her to deliver on the Government's promises to senior citizens.

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheál Martin today launched a new guide aimed at increasing the level of awareness among Irish businesses of the need to plan for a ’flu pandemic.

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheál Martin today officially opened QUMAS’s new Research and Development Centre at Cleve Business Park, Cork.

CHRISTIAN HOUSE (Recycling.co.uk) held off the challenge of American Danny Pate (TIAA-CREF) to win the FBD Insurance Ras in the tightest finish in the history of the event when the race ended in the seaside down of Skerries yesterday.

AUSSIE Joshua Marden (FRF Courier) claimed stage victory when the FBD Insurance RAS arrived in An Daingean yesterday after a tough 107 mile stage from Cobh.

Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment Micheál Martin today opened a new €9m headquarters and manufacturing facility for computer equipment company Multis Ltd, Parkmore West Business Park, Galway.

Four years have passed since a wiry, awkward-looking Thierry Henry first impacted on the international scene, with Aime Jacquet unsure where, or whether, to include him in the France team.

Patrick Mboma refers to Roger Milla as ‘‘a legend,’’ which is why he refuses to be compared to a man who put Cameroon on the world football map.

Marc Wilmots is Belgium’s unlikely hero, a player unlikely to feature in the lists of those predicting potential World Cup stars but one who perhaps ought not be ignored.

The website which included Diego Simeone in an England ‘Nightmare XI’ ﷓ accusing him of ‘‘cheating England out of a major tournament’’ ﷓ might just have been exaggerating a touch.

Argentina’s Matias Almeyda has a score to settle with Sven-Goran Eriksson.

Blackrock 42, Young Munster 8

Social welfare requirements for the north Louth area should be kept under constant review to meet any needs emerging as a result of the foot-and-mouth crisis, according to the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs.