Live entertainment events in Ireland, including music, arts, and theatre generated €1.7bn of revenue over the last 12 months and supported employment for almost 11,500 people, according to a recent report.

Millwall produced the shock of the day.

Ulster 39 Clermont 32: Ulster has enjoyed some spectacular victories in Europe but, surely, none can have matched this lunchtime encounter for excitement, unpredictability and high-class rugby.

Glasgow Warriors 17 Ulster 22: Ulster made it four wins from four with a 22-17 victory at Glasgow Warriors which lifted them to the top of the Guinness Pro12 table.

Johnny Sexton will put his black eye and facial stitches in the firing line in Paris tonight as he bids to clock up some more game time ahead of Ireland’s RBS 6 Nations showdown with England in eight days. 

1 Authority at half-back.

Rochdale 1 Stoke 4: Bojan Krkic and Victor Moses scored breathtaking goals at Rochdale as Stoke avoided joining the long list of Barclays Premier League teams to exit the FA Cup at the fourth-round stage.

When Ian Henderson’s attempted Panenka penalty came back off the bar, he showed some pretty quick thinking.

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Cian Healy, Nick Williams and Simon Zebo are the choice of their peers in Ireland’s Rugby Players Association to form the shortlist for the Hibernia College IRUPA Players’ Player of the Year award 2013.

New Ulster coach Mark Anscombe is not going to beat himself up over not having his internationals available at certain times of the season under the IRFU player management programme.

At the third time of asking, Ireland finally triumphed over arch-rivals England in the Junior World Cup in Cape Town yesterday, a victory that puts them into a final play-off for fifth place against France later this week.

Mike Ruddock’s Ireland remain on course for an U-20 Six Nations Grand Slam after seeing off Italy at Dubarry Park last night.

CONTAMINATED Egyptian fenugreek seeds are probably the source of Europe’s deadly E coli outbreaks, health experts warned, predicting there could be more infections from seeds still in the food chain.

Contaminated Egyptian fenugreek seeds are probably the source of Europe's deadly Ecoli outbreaks, health experts warned today, predicting there could be more infections from seeds still in the food chain.

An Irish man is among nine people who died when a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed and burst into flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand’s Southern Alps today.

Nine people died after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed on New Zealand’s South Island today.

Sunderland 2 Colchester 0

Middlesbrough 2 Northampton 0

Brynjar Gunnarsson scored an 89th-minute winner for Reading at the Madejski Stadium to close the gap on Coca-Cola Championship leaders Sheffield United.

England secured their place in the last four of the Toulon Under-20 tournament with an impressive 3-0 win over South Korea.

Canadian defender Jim Brennan will miss Norwich’s game with Manchester City on Monday after he was ruled out for three weeks when he picked up an ankle injury in training.

New Norwich midfielder Graham Stuart is set to go straight into the squad to face his former club Everton tomorrow.

Norwich boss Nigel Worthington named an unchanged line-up as the Canaries looked to end a seven-match winless run stretching back to December 11.

Norwich could welcome back Gary Holt into the squad for tomorrow’s Barclays Premiership clash with Middlesbrough at Carrow Road.

Norwich will give late fitness tests to Mattias Jonson, Thomas Helveg and Simon Charlton ahead of the trip to Portsmouth on New Year’s Day.

Nigel Worthington will include youngsters Rossi Jarvis, Adam Smith and Danny Crow in his injury-ravaged squad for the trip to Middlesbrough.

Norwich have been rocked by Damien Francis’ broken cheekbone, which could keep the midfielder, the Canaries’ joint top scorer, out for up to two months.

Nigel Worthington is set to recall David Bentley to the Norwich squad for tomorrow’s Barclays Premiership trip to Charlton.

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Norwich striker Ian Henderson has committed his future to the Premiership newcomers by signing a new three-year contract.