Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly convicted of the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombing, has died aged 60, his family have announced.

Giuseppe Rossi is frustrated to miss out on a third straight major tournament with Italy after being among the final cuts made by coach Cesare Prandelli.

On the 75th anniversary of his death, we recall the father of modern comm unication, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler

Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has not ruled out a return to international football for Antonio Di Natale, despite the striker again being left out of his latest squad.

CHELSEA assistant coach Ray Wilkins is hoping that Carlo Ancelotti’s love of football will help him cope with the loss of his father.

ARSENE WENGER has revealed Cesc Fabregas is unlikely to be fit in time for Arsenal’s crunch clash with Chelsea on Sunday.

Carlo Ancelotti will attend Chelsea’s match against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on Sunday despite the death of his father Giuseppe.

Carlo Ancelotti watched his side thrash Blackburn 5-0 and then revealed he was returning to Italy to be with his sick father.

CARLO ANCELOTTI is hoping to be back in the dugout today after rushing home to Italy to be with his seriously ill father.

ITALY coach Marcello Lippi will give former Manchester United starlet Giuseppe Rossi his first senior start in tonight’s international friendly against Greece in Athens.

IN these troubled times it’s gratifying to know that Italy’s coach reads the Irish Examiner.

WHEN Don Corleone’s daughter got married in the film, The Godfather, the guests kissed his hand and he dispensed favours because no Sicilian Mafia boss could refuse a request on the day of his daughter’s wedding.

Alex Ferguson has revealed Manchester United have first refusal on Giuseppe Rossi should Villarreal want to sell the Italian Under-21 international.

Parma have signed Manchester United striker Giuseppe Rossi on loan until the end of the season.

Alex Ferguson has opted to keep Giuseppe Rossi at Manchester United to aid the Red Devils title push.

ALEX FERGUSON has branded Giuseppe Rossi’s loan spell at Newcastle as a wasted exercise.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed the imminent arrival of fellow Scandinavian Henrik Larsson has sent a ripple of anticipation through Manchester United’s star-studded dressing room.

A Donegal father-of-four felt like a member of the Guildford Four after being interrogated about a murder which never happened, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder has promised there will be more goals to come from £10m (€14.8m) striker Obafemi Martins as he finds his feet in the Barclays Premiership.

Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson believes loaning Giuseppe Rossi to Newcastle until the end of the year will help improve the young striker.

Alex Ferguson has confirmed Manchester United are on the verge of signing Michael Carrick from Tottenham.

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has ruled out making any move for Jermain Defoe to fill the void left by Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Alex Ferguson has hailed Giuseppe Rossi as the best natural finisher to come through the Manchester United ranks since Paul Scholes.

IT has taken the British Government all of 31 years to apologise to members of the Conlon and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment for IRA bomb attacks, but they will derive a large measure of consolation from the fact that when it finally came it amounted to outright exoneration.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is under renewed pressure to appoint a victims’ commissioner in the North following his public apology to the Conlon and Maguire families.

A member of the Guildford Four was confirmed today as a guest speaker at this weekend’s nationalist SDLP conference.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has welcomed the British Prime Minister's apology to 11 Irish people who were wrongfully convicted in connection with IRA bombings in Guildford and London in 1974.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair today publicly apologised to the Conlon and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment for the IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is to ask British Prime Minister Tony Blair next week to apologise to the family of a member of the wrongfully-convicted Guildford Four, it was claimed tonight.

The mother of an Italian priest abducted in the Philippines last week appealed for his son’s release, saying that, once free, he will continue loving and helping those who are in need.