Home players Jordan Zunic and Adam Bland led the way on six under par after the opening round of the Australian PGA Championship.

A Victorian mansion on the Ring of Kerry, which was seized and sold in 2000 by the Criminal Assets Bureau, has just sold once more, for less than what it made in a raw, abandoned state 17 years ago.

A High Court action brought by a 12-year-old girl has been adjourned to allow a body that governs Irish dancing consider her application for an exemption to allow her dance in a forthcoming world championship qualifier.

Rory McIlroy might have changed his putter three times in as many days but he headed for the Irish Open with hope in his heart after closing with a six-under 64 in the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.

Richard Bland and Sergio Garcia were tied at the top of the leaderboard ahead of the final round of the BMW International Open after posting rounds of 67 on Saturday.

A mother-of-three has been jailed for 14 years for beating up a "Sugar Daddy" pensioner with a Canals of England picture and torturing him with a hot iron.

Sweden’s Alex Noren moved into the world’s top 20 after holding his nerve to claim a remarkable third victory in his last eight events at the British Masters.

You could call it a failure, Eamon O’Shea’s time as manager of Tipperary, if you consider the outcome the only important part of any process. He wouldn’t see it like that, though he wishes he could have done just a little bit more.

Graeme McDowell shot his best round of the year and Shane Lowry “got away with” one of his worst in the Turkish Airlines Open.

A Roma family whose two- year-old blond son was removed overnight from them by gardaí in what their lawyer alleged was a case of “hysterical” and “overzealous” policing has settled its High Court action for €60,000 damages.

Is there an architect in any period of Irish history with as many hotels and suites to his credit, as Kerry’s James Francis Fuller? 

Dashboard video footage released involving the traffic stop in Texas of a woman later found dead in her jail cell appears to have been doctored, an award-winning Hollywood director said.

The High Court will today rule on a couple’s bid to strike out repossession proceedings brought against them by a subprime lender, Home Funding Corporation Ltd. 

The Portugal Masters has been reduced to 54 holes after heavy rain caused lengthy delays in Vilamoura yesterday with only six players, including leader Alexander Levy, completing their second rounds.

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A bad-ass billionaire with a cool, gadget-laden car in need of a new sidekick — it looked like Enda Kenny’s lucky day.

A footballer in the UK has lost an estimated £7m in three years of gambling, according to charity Sporting Chance.

The Australian shire of Bland is to twin with Scottish village Dull and US community Boring.

Francesco and Edoardo Molinari were today hoping to turn the BMW PGA Championship into a family affair as good weather produced equally good scoring at Wentworth.

Miguel Angel Jimenez tonight celebrated becoming the European Tour’s oldest-ever winner – after a week which could have seen him fall outside the world’s top 100 for the first time in nine years.

Germany’s Martin Kaymer set about silencing any lingering Ryder Cup critics with a timely return to form on day two of the BMW Italian Open in Turin.

Magnus Carlsson produced a stunning round of 65 to open up a two-shot lead on day one of the Nordea Masters in Stockholm today.

England’s Richard Bland was the early clubhouse leader as the Nordea Masters got under way in Stockholm today.

The nautical heist thriller ‘Contraband’ is a remake of ‘Reykjavik-Rotterdam’, an Icelandic film from 2008 which, admittedly, I've yet to see. Presumably, there must have been something about it that was compelling enough to warrant the effort and expense of an adaptation.

SET AT the height of the Cold War, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (15A) is something of a throwback to another era entirely, that era being the mid-1970s, when a particular kind of paranoid thriller reigned supreme.

Stuart Appleby ended nearly a decade of waiting for a domestic title when he claimed the JBWere Masters at the Victoria Golf Club in Melbourne with an error-free final round of 65.

Unheralded left-hander Adam Bland will carry a three-shot lead into the final round of the 2010 JBWere Masters after completing a one-under 70 in extreme conditions on Saturday at Victoria Golf Club in Melbourne.

Daniel Gaunt joined fellow Australians Alistair Presnell and Adam Bland in the lead at six-under after the opening round of the Australian Masters at Victoria Golf Club in Melbourne.

Paul Lawrie fired a seven-under-par 64 to share the lead after the first round of the Castello Masters in Spain.

Ross Fisher led by a solitary stroke after his third round at the 3 Irish Open tailed off following a flying start.

Darren Clarke has moved up the leaderboard on day three of the 3 Irish Open in Killarney.

Former Ryder Cup star David Howell, down from ninth in the world four years ago to his current 408th, gave flashes of his old brilliance when the European Tour finally hit European soil today.

Englishman Richard Bland was one of the biggest third-round movers as the Avantha Masters looks set for a dramatic finale with seven players ending the day tied for the lead on 11 under par.

Germany’s Marcel Siem shot an eagle on his last hole to claim the clubhouse lead with an eight-under-par 64 midway through the opening round of the Avantha Masters today.

RORY McILROY needed little time to rekindle last seasons explosive form by moving straight into contention on day one of the Abu Dhabi Championship.

AN amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard ever discovered, a massive collection of gold and silver crosses, sword decorations and other items, British archaeologists said yesterday.

The greens at Gleneagles came in for criticism from players at the Johnnie Walker Championship today, with Jonathan Caldwell among their scalps.

Defending champion Tiger Woods needed to be at his combative best to stay on track for back-to-back wins as the 109th US Open began under dark skies and heavy rain at Bethpage Black.

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM are expected to fully recover from burns they suffered in a fiery South Carolina jet crash that killed the other four people aboard, one of their doctors said today.

Simply Red has developed a bad case of the blues, but frontman Mick Hucknall is delighted.

England’s Nick Dougherty grabbed a share of the lead at the Spanish Open in Madrid today, then moved ahead of the pack by one shot.