By a quirk of fate Ed Donovan was in London last Saturday when Fabrice Muamba collapsed in White Hart Lane.

The company employed by the GPA to cardiac screen all inter-county hurling and football squads in the country, has revealed they have been overwhelmed by enquiries about the services they offer in the wake of Bolton Wanderers player Fabrice Muamba collapsing in White Hart Lane last weekend.

Intelligent lighting systems producer Adaptive Lighting has been named as the Enterprise Equity Genesis Emerging Business of the Year for 2012.

MORE than half of the senior inter-county hurlers and footballers in the country have been screened forheart problems by a new company working with the Gaelic Players’ Association, it has emerged.

POLICE and security agents had to take cover when a driver crashed onto the front lawn of former President George W Bush’s home near Dallas.

The US Secret Service launched an urgent investigation into its own security procedures after a couple gatecrashed a glittering White House state dinner for the Indian prime minister and posted the pictures on Facebook.

Turkish police arrested a man who claims to have plotted to kill US President Barack Obama when he visited Turkey.

Daryl O'Kane returns from a holiday in New Zealand to the Ballymena second row for the visit of leaders Cork Constiutution to Eaton Park in Division One of the AIB League on Saturday.

SHANNON may have turned the tables with a resounding 55-22 victory over UCD in Limerick last season, but they will be conscious that the students have a habit of reserving their best when playing at home and, indeed, won that encounter two years ago 31-29.