Every European Cup and Champions League Final is memorable, for good reasons or bad.

Ulster 35 Ospreys 17: So after a season where more headlines were made off the pitch rather than on it, Ulster, the 1999 Heineken Cup kingpins and forerunners of Ireland’s glorious history in the competition, will still have a place at the top table of European rugby next season.

Congratulations, then, to Manchester City.

The family of an Irish sporting legend who died in the UK 13 years ago said they're delighted he's finally home after scattering his ashes on a famous Cork cricket ground. 

Manchester United stars past and present yesterday stood in silent solidarity at Old Trafford to mark the 60th anniversary of the Munich air disaster.

Peter Jackson on the son of an Irish emigrant who guided Wales to the World Cup finals and was Matt Busby’s right-hand man at Manchester United.

It was not the Busby-inspired brilliance of Best and Charlton, nor a dramatic late victory in Fergie time, but Jose Mourinho’s side did what they needed to do in order to lift the Europa League trophy for the first time, qualify for the Champions League and, more importantly, give a much-needed morale boost to the devastated city of Manchester, writes Gerry Cox.

In 2014 Dan Gordon was approached by a production company to direct a film-length documentary about George Best but the English director’s research had already begun inadvertently two years earlier.

Paul McGrath talks Fergie, Busby and explains why nothing will ever compare with Italia 90, writes Phil Campion

It’s almost a year now since this column fulfilled a near life-long sporting ambition with a trip to Chicago to see the Bears host the Green Bay Packers at the iconic Soldier Field.

Alfie In The Bath

The family of an Irish sporting legend said they are deeply moved after a walkway near his childhood home was named in his honour.

Today marks the 57th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster. 23 people died in total that day, including eight journalists.

Paul Kelly writes that in 1964 Denis Law scored 50 goals in 51 matches, a staggering return that earned him the Ballon d’Or.

An almost forgotten legend of Irish sport is to get formal recognition in his home city.

Last summer, when David Moyes was appointed manager of Manchester United, the talk was of a brave new dawn at the club, with the Scot continuing Alex Ferguson’s success long into the future.

U20 SIX NATIONS:

U20 SIX NATIONS:

England 33 Ireland 9

Ireland 34 Scotland 7

Pessimism has its advantages: you’re let down less often.

There is one simple reason why David Moyes should never have got the manager’s job at Manchester United.

Before kick-off on Saturday, a colleague dryly remarked: “So, we’re a wobbling mid-table side, up against a tight, in-form, Champions League-able team, who have a settled-in manager, with players that he actually wants at the club, in a system they are comfortable with ... I’ll be happy with a point gained.”

A self-styled Scottish separatist is to be extradited back to Scotland, where he is wanted on terrorism charges, including making a hoax poison threat against former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

What’s left to say? Even if there was anything new, nobody is listening. This narrative is written. The capsule buried.

It’s a fascinatingly old fashioned approach from a club which has embraced modernity like no other

Alex Ferguson’s retirement has provoked an extraordinary response right across Europe, a wave of emotion almost comparable to the day Seve Ballesteros died, exactly two years earlier.

Manchester United will be welcoming the man Brian Greenhoff believes should succeed Alex Ferguson when Real Madrid head to Old Trafford on March 5.

A sales adviser in the UK who made a series of sexual comments about five-year-old April Jones on Facebook has been given a suspended prison sentence today.

A Scottish man living in Dublin is facing extradition to the US to face multiple charges of sending more than 40 email bomb threats to the University of Pittsburgh.

Matt Busby once wrote in Soccer At The Top: “If anything is to be gained from football, it is to be gained bywinning or losing with dignity. If there are nations whose people so losethemselves in their emotions as to encourage the thug and the cheat they can be educated only by example.”

A DOCUMENTARY on the only Irishman to manage Manchester United has been shortlisted for Best Sports Programme at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs).

CENTRE Rory O’Loughlin and replacement wing David Busby finished off well-worked moves for the Ireland Schools to outgun the Ireland Clubs in this Age-Grade International at Merrion Road yesterday.

GIVEN that the post-flotation United has always tended to be a byword for ‘naff’, especially when it comes to the grubbier activities of the commercial department, Saturday reminded us that we can still do some things with a modicum of class.

A self-styled Scottish separatist has failed in an appeal against his conviction for sending two hoax bomb threats against transatlantic flights departing from the United Kingdom.

Terrace-talker Richard Kurt is asking fellow Manchester United fans to believe in the impossible

Darren Norris believes Alex Ferguson could become the greatest Champions League manager of all time if he wins tomorrow — a loss and Pep Guardiola rises further up the list

Blue chip Barca and United only boast blue collar records in the competition, writes Miguel Delaney

NOTHING quite illustrates Alex Ferguson’s extraordinary longevity better than the juxtaposition of images from Manchester and Dallas on Sunday.

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

COUPLES who avoid sex before marriage end up having happier, more stable relationships — and a better time in bed, according to psychologists.

THE man who reconnected Matt Busby with Old Trafford following the Munich air crash in 1958 took centre stage at Manchester United yesterday afternoon.

Bobby Charlton has revealed that Matt Busby helped ensure Alex Ferguson never came under serious threat of the sack as Manchester United boss.

BOBBY CHARLTON is adamant Alex Ferguson would not have been sacked if he had lost that fateful FA Cup tie at Nottingham Forest.