Donncha O’Brien was brilliant at Durrus where he beat Jerry Gibbons by almost a bowl in torrential rain in the West Cork Junior A championship.

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UGANDA: Uganda’s top court yesterday banned the practice of refunding bride price — normally livestock given by the groom to his bride’s family — when a marriage ends in divorce.

Ford powered into the 2015 Geneva Motor Show with its most technologically advanced performance model range ever, including the global debut of the all-new Ford Focus RS high-performance hatchback, and the European premiere of the all-new Ford GT supercar.

Seamus Sexton won the Connie Killarney Cup final on the Marsh Road where he beat Michael Bohane with his 18th shot past the line.

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Tobacco sales will be banned to under-21s in New York in a new health drive by mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The world of road bowling was rocked by the sudden death of James Caverley, one the most prominent figures in the sport from the 1980s to the early part of this century.

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Liam O’Sullivan is Munster Junior A champion following a comprehensive win over Patrick O’Donoghue at Templemartin on Sunday.

Aidan Murphy completed the lineup for the Munster senior championship semi-finals when he beat Gary Daly by close to two bowls of odds in torrential rain at Carrigaline on Saturday.

The Munster senior championship quarter-final draws and next Sunday’s Pool A play-off at Skibbereen between Aidan Murphy, Martin Coppinger and James O’Donovan are dominating bowling discourse this week.

STANDING at the bottom of this main street on a grey Galway day, it’s difficult to believe that nothing on either side of you is in fact real.

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GARY DALY had two important wins in three days when he beat Christy Mullins in the feature score of the West and Mid Festival at Ballinacurra on Sunday, hot on the heels of his last-shot win over Eamon Bowen Snr in the Mick Barry Cup at Ballincurrig on Thursday.

PAT BUTLER finished with three sensational bowls at Bauravilla on Sunday to win the Mick Crowley Cup final from Eamon Bowen Jnr and Gary Daly.

The Irish team has made a fine start to the Scottish Derby and three members will be in action in the semi-finals at Shawfield on Saturday.

THE meeting of litter brothers Farley Turbo and Farley Blitz in Heat 5 is the most intriguing clash in the second round of the Kerry Agri Business St Leger at Limerick this evening.

Owen McKenna and Conor Fahy could be the trainers to follow when the first round of the Ladbrokes.com Irish Derby continues at Shelbourne tonight.

IT is every greyhound person’s dream to have a runner in the Ladbrokes.com Irish Derby but Galway owner P.J. Fahy is not the typical owner.

A 34-YEAR-OLD man was jailed for three years yesterday for killing the half-brother of England footballer Jermain Defoe with a single punch.

CONNACHT skipper John Muldoon and lock Michael Swift are set to play their 100th game in Magners League in Cardiff on Sunday. Only one player, former captain Andrew Farley, has reached a century in a Connacht jersey in the competition up to now.

A 34-YEAR-OLD man accused of murdering the half-brother of England striker Jermain Defoe appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday.

AS expected, Ulster’s Paddy Wallace will miss tonight’s Magners League derby with Connacht at the Galway Sportsground.

Lock Andrew Farley will become the second Connacht player to play 150 games, next to Eric Elwood, for the province in the Europea Challenge Cup quarter-final against Northampton in Franklin’s Gardens.

Leinster flanker Shane Jennings will have his appeal against a three-match ban for striking Connact's Andrew Farley held by the Irish Rugby Football Union Disciplinary Panel on Thursday evening.

AUSTRALIAN Super 14 outfit Queensland Reds were yesterday confirmed as one of the sides facing Connacht in pre-season friendlies at the Sportsgrounds, Galway next month.

THOUGH the prognosis is positive and the picture will be a lot clearer tomorrow, novenas are already being offered around Munster for Ronan O’Gara’s knee injury, and the hope that it will clear up sufficiently for the province’s Heineken Cup semi-final against Saracens on Sunday week.

Connacht captain Andrew Farley has extended his contract for another season.

IRISH internationals David Wallace and Denis Leamy are named in the Munster squad for tomorrow night’s Magners League clash away to Connacht, (Sportsgrounds, 7.30pm).

Connacht have named a 22 man squad ahead of their Magners League clash with Edinburgh at the Sportsground on Friday (kick off 6.30pm) and are boosted by the return of Captain Andrew Farley and hooker Adrian Flavin.

Connacht captain Andrew Farley has been ruled out the Magner's League clash against Llanelli Scarlets at Stradey Park on Friday night.

Connacht Rugby has announced that Andrew Farley will captain the side for the 2007/08 season.

IRELAND A’S hopes of making the Churchill Cup final were left in tatters as the New Zealand Maori ran in seven tries in a one-sided contest at Sandy Park.

CONNACHT coach Michael Bradley has made three changes to the team which played Ospreys two weeks ago for tonight’s Magners League clash with Border Reivers at Galway Sportsground (6.30).

Michael Bradley brings in Andrew Farley, Brett Wilkinson and Adrian Flavin to the Connacht side to face Border Reivers in the Magners League on Friday (kick off 6.30pm).

Michael Bradley has brought in Conor Muldoon and Andrew Farley as his two changes to the 22-man squad to play Border Reivers in the Magners League at the Sportsground on Friday (kick-off 6.30pm).

ALLY HOGG came through 80 minutes unscathed ahead of next weekend’s RBS 6 Nations opener with England as Edinburgh came out on top against Connacht, with Duncan Hodge making up for an early error with a fine kicking performance.

Coach Michael Bradley has made four changes to his Connacht side ahead of their match with Edinburgh Rugby at Murrayfield on Friday night, kick-off at 7.30pm

Connacht have announced their side to take on Harlequins in the European Challenge Cup at the Stoop on Saturday.

Connacht have today announced their side to play Munster at the Sportsground on New Years Eve (kick off 4pm).

Andrew Farley has been voted as the first Aer Arann Connacht Player of the Month, for September.

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Connacht captain Andrew Farley has signed a two year contract extension the province.