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Five-time Olympic swimming gold medallist Ian Thorpe is in rehab after being found disoriented in the street by police in the early hours of this morning.

As Danny Erskine directed a 30-strong rigging and technical team turning the University of Limerick Sports Arena into a massive theatre, Mary Sheahan employed age-old darning needle and ironing skills on much-travelled garments.

Ronnie O’Sullivan showed a little rust but it was largely superficial as he set about the defence of his Betfair World Championship title in impressive style today.

The original historic gun-running vessel, Asgard, has been restored for a new exhibition.

Returning to the controversy of the week at the Masters and Augusta National Golf Club’s lack of female members, a lobbying group called change.org entered the fray yesterday, looking to further increase the pressure on the private club to review its membership policy.

THE death has taken place of one of the best-known and most popular female journalists in the south of Ireland.

Ladbrokes has begun the search for a new chief executive after Chris Bell announced plans to leave the bookmaker in the summer.

ONE in 20 British schoolchildren thought Adolf Hitler was a coach of the German football team, a survey has found.

THANK God for the website www.irelandforeurope.ie. At last an organisation of people who really want to go out and work for the Lisbon Treaty and they look like they’re going to do it with imagination and a bit of flair.

THE family of one of three young Irish women on board the Air France airliner spoke yesterday of their heartbreak at the loss of their daughter.

AS ONE older voter put it to Nessa Childers, who is campaigning to win a seat for Labour in the East constituency: “Right party, right name, right time.”

LONDON GAA are one of the few beneficiaries of Ireland’s economic downturn, with surge in the number of GAA players seeking work across the Irish Sea.

SAMOA ended their disappointing World Cup campaign on a high note as three first-half tries did for the United States in an entertaining Pool A dead-rubber in rainy St Etienne.

THE United States Eagles refused to use their heroics against England as an excuse for their failure to beat Tonga in their World Cup Pool A clash in Montpellier yesterday.

HAVING written full-length biographies of both Charlie Haughey and Jack Lynch, I was particularly interested in Frank Dunlop’s book, Yes, Taoiseach.

A woman claimed today she was persecuted by her boss because of her “happy clappy” religious views.

Peter Erskine, chief executive of O2 Ireland's parent company, MmO2, has refuted claims Irish mobile phone prices are a "rip off".

MOBILE phone operator O2 says its expects to see its Irish revenues grow in the first half of its financial year.

Mobile phone company mmO2 has reported another quarter of strong subscriber growth, and beat analysts' expectations by adding 504,000 new subscribers in its first quarter to end-June.