Wallaby fly-half Christian Lealiifano played the most important role since his comeback from a bone marrow transplant after he contacted Leukaemia just over 12 months ago when he helped Ulster to a dramatic victory over defending champions Scarlets.

Michael Bublé's wife, Luisana Lopilato, has posted a photo of her son for the first time since his cancer diagnosis.

A controversial penalty try helped Scarlets to a narrow 16-13 Guinness PRO12 victory over Ulster at a rain-drenched Parc y Scarlets.

Ulster struggled to defeat a weakened Scarlets side at the Kingspan Stadium last night.

Connacht 30 Scarlets 17: Connacht Rugby players take a deserved six-day break after finishing a run of 16 games with a European quarter-final in the diary and a top-four Guinness Pro 12 spot secure.

A man with locked-in syndrome has launched a right- to-die legal challenge against guidelines preventing doctors from assisting patients to commit suicide.

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A rare Cork sundial comes up at Lynes and Lynes sale next week.

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There was an explosive start to last night’s Elite amateur boxing international between Ireland and France at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork, double bronze medallist Paddy Barnes leading out an Olympian one-two-three for the home side with a second-round stoppage of young light-flyweight Dylan Beccu, a stunning right hand right on the bell doing the damage.

With temperatures still a little on the cool side, music lovers could do worse than head to Bray this coming weekend. With musicians from more than 30 international acts on its jazz trail, Bray Jazz Festival looks set to see the mercury rising.

Such are the peculiarities of footballing hysteria that a series of subtle, successfully-executed dives will bring about nothing like the binge of handwringing a bunch of botched, largely fruitless ones will.

Real Madrid midfielder Kaka today earned a recall to the Brazil squad for the first time since the 2010 World Cup finals for the international friendlies against Gabon and Egypt.

IN a way it’s almost a pity that Daniel Craig stars in Cowboys and Aliens (15A).

RESIDENTS of Rio’s northern slums braced for more violence as hundreds of reinforcements joined a widening crackdown on drug gangs that has killed at least 30 people in six days.

Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa was subjected to interrogation tactics branded illegal by the Government's chief law adviser more than 30 years before, an inquiry was told today.

British soldiers made Iraqi prisoners scream in an "orchestrated choir" and forced one to dance like Michael Jackson, an inquiry heard today.

Head coach Andy Kelly says Ireland will leave no stone unturned to ensure his team are competitive at the 2008 World Cup in Australia.

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Former Fulham Football Club manager Jean Tigana told the British High Court today that his priority was always to do what was best for the Premiership side.

FORMER Fulham manager Jean Tigana’s career at the football club ended in “deceit and dishonesty,” the High Court heard yesterday.

RAY BURKE and NASA’s capsule, Genesis, have a few things in common. They were both in orbit and both came crashing down to earth in spectacular fashion.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin has appealed to off-licences not to stock controversial vodka sachets which hit the market yesterday.

A blindfolded man described as an Iraqi-American held prisoner in Iraq was shown pleading for help on an Arab television station today.

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The officer commanding paratroopers on Bloody Sunday today said that since then he had never thought about what went wrong on the day 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead.

A FORMER escort girl who hacked her wealthy lover to death with an axe yesterday had her five-year prison sentence for his manslaughter reduced to three-and-a half years by the Court of Appeal in England.

The British government was today accused of a “negligent” and “deliberate failure” to co-operate with the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

The British army’s most senior officer present on Bloody Sunday today said “there was certainly nothing to be proud of” on that day.

A lawyer today challenged whether the Saville Inquiry could ever establish what the IRA did on Bloody Sunday because of a ‘‘paucity’’ of direct evidence from the group during the four years since the inquiry opened.

MI5, the RUC and the Metropolitan Police today came out against conducting a large-scale trawl of their intelligence files for the Saville Inquiry.

Boris Becker is reportedly giving his estranged wife more than £10m as a divorce settlement.

Boris and Barbara Becker are understood to be working on a private agreement which could be announced just before the estranged pair are due in court today.