Detectives still hope that Madeleine McCann could be found alive, despite the drastic scaling back of the police investigation into her disappearance.

University College Cork (UCC) may have been awarded last year’s Munster Senior League (MSL) title at arbitration but the controversy is set to rumble on, with the aggrieved parties meeting next week to consider their next steps.

Paul O’Connell admits a story that Simon Zebo was forced by his Lions team-mates to ask Rob Penney for the Munster captaincy was true.

The legal battle between Roy Keane and Alf Inge Haaland will boil down to a judge’s assessment of conflicting medical evidence.