Sligo survived a brief but real scare in the Bronx tonight before their experience and class told late on to see off a spirited New York.

Heartbreaking reports have emerged of the last moments of some of the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire.

Sligo 2-15 Kildare 2-14: Sligo boss Niall Carew came back to haunt his home county as his side ended Kildare’s perfect run in this Division 3 campaign at St Conleth’s Park yesterday.

Sligo 0-14 Tyrone 0-21

USA: A group of self-styled Robin Hoods have been feeding parking meters while trailing traffic wardens.

USA: A lawyer wants to enter his pet pig into the Flint mayoral race after a mix-up threatened to keep candidates’ names off the primary election ballot.

USA: Authorities at Newark International Airport in New Jersey tranquilised a wolverine who was en route from Norway to an Alaskan wildlife centre after discovering the wild animal had chewed through his metal carrier.

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It says much about the state of Sligo football when their own players suggest it’s the pull of Sky Sports’ coverage at Markievicz Park this evening that will bump up attendance figures.

Leitrim 1-12 Sligo 2-9

A few years ago I read a column by a sports journalist who recalled the night he got locked into a GAA ground.

G’day mate.

April 6-12

A Clare school has discovered its early intervention classes for dyslexia are proving a huge success, writes Oliver Moore

Larry Hagman, whose predatory oil baron J.R. Ewing on television’s long-running soap opera 'Dallas' became a symbol for 1980s’ greed, has died. He was 81.

Dallas is now a modern, shiny city with a skyline of skyscrapers of various colours, shapes and sizes. The Reunion Tower is one of the most noticeable — it looks like a tower with a golf ball on top.

Perhaps most vitally, they boasted then a certain dash of JR’s winning lawlessness.

It’s back.

The success of hit series Desperate Housewives paved the way for the return of classic US soap opera Dallas, according to a star of both shows.

Americans like their team sports to be reduced to duels, the battle of stars who are more often than not defined by recent form.

'Dallas' star Larry Hagman plans to keep playing J.R. Ewing until he’s 90.

David Pipe’s promising hurdler Bobby Ewing collapsed and died on the gallops on Saturday morning.

Actor Larry Hagman said today he had been diagnosed with cancer.

Channel 5 is to air 'Dallas' next year.

Armagh 2-8 Sligo 3-12

WELL, tip my 10-gallon hat and fix me a bourbon — if it ain’t the wiliest ole’ coyote in the Lone Star State makin’ his way back to the small screen.

UCC maintained their habit of eking out tight wins in uncompromising games in yesterday’s Sigerson Cup second round clash at the Mardyke.

JOHN EVANS relived May 24 as his Tipperary team bowed out of the All-Ireland senior football championship at Semple Stadium on Saturday.

MICHAEL SHIELDS continues at full-back, with Ray Carey and Anthony Lynch holding down the corner-back positions as Cork announce the same starting side that defeated Armagh in their final group qualifying game for Sunday’s Allianz NFL Division Two final against Monaghan at Croke Park.

HOLDERS Derry have been dealt a number of shattering blows ahead of Sunday’s Division One Allianz NFL final with Kerry at Croke Park.

AN EVENT held to celebrate the 30th anniversary of TV soap Dallas created a drama worthy of the Ewing family itself, after fans who paid hundreds to meet the cast got nowhere near them.

A weekend event to celebrate the 30th anniversary of TV soap Dallas created a drama worthy of the Ewing family itself after fans who paid hundreds to meet the cast got nowhere near them, while others mingled with stars for just €75.

WHILE they celebrated at Clandeboye Golf Club last night after the inclusion of Jonathan Caldwell in the British & Irish team to play the US in the Walker Cup at Royal Co Down on September 9 and 10, there was disappointment at Banbridge when Richard Kilpatrick was omitted.

Singer/actress Jessica Simpson was mortified when she screen-tested for a two parts in the big screen re-make of the classic TV show Dallas and didn't get either one of them.

Jennifer Lopez has abruptly quit the much-anticipated big screen remake of classic 1970s show Dallas.

BARBARA Bel Geddes, the winsome actress who rose to stage and movie stardom but reached her greatest fame as Miss Ellie Ewing in the long-running TV series Dallas, has died. She was 82.

WHO shot JR? This time it will be ABC and the Disney network, who are bringing back the classic TV show Dallas as a movie.

A SECOND wave of residents displaced by Southern California’s wildfires were being allowed home yesterday after a weekend of cooler, calmer weather helped firefighters begin to bring the blazes under control.

A second group of residents forced to flee their houses by Southern California’s wildfires were being allowed to return home today.

A woman bludgeoned her two children to death with a baseball bat then stepped into the path of a truck in an apparent suicide bid.

Villainous oilman JR Ewing is set to be resurrected in a feature film version of the soap opera Dallas.

Patrick Ewing has announced his retirement from basketball after a 17-year career.