YEARS ago Goats Don’t Shave brought out the song, We’ll Have Our Own Las Vegas in the Hills of Donegal.

ARSENAL’S hopes of repeating their Champions League upset against Barcelona have been hit by the loss of Robin van Persie to a knee injury.

Leyton Orient 0 West Brom 2

THE recession blues were banished in Cork at the weekend, when over 50,000 revellers attended the Guinness Jazz Festival, worth in the region of €6 million to the city.

Birmingham remain at the top of the Coca-Cola Championship after a 3-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday.

CLARE defender Gerry O’Grady faces a struggle to be fit for the Munster SHC semi-final against Limerick on June 22 after breaking his right hand in Sunday’s victory over Waterford.

Clare 2-26 Waterford 0-23

Norwich have completed the loan signing of Chelsea midfielder Jimmy Smith, who will stay at Carrow Road until the end of December.

QPR 1 Preston 0

An ice storm wiped away the traditional green stripe painted on Fifth Avenue, New York, but it could not keep away thousands of St Patrick’s Day celebrants from the city’s parade today.

The Football Association are investigating QPR’s match with China’s Under-23 team yesterday, which was abandoned following a mass brawl.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey is still in search of the source of the White Nile so Allan Prosser gets a recall to mediate over your views and opinions again this week.

DARYL MURPHY and Grant Leadbitter fired Sunderland to a deserved win over QPR as Roy Keane’s side continued their steady rise up the Coca-Cola Championship table.

Cardiff 0 QPR 1

OVER 2,000 delegates will attend Macra na Feirme’s annual conference in the Montague Hotel, Emo, Co Laois from October 27 to 30.

OVER 2,000 delegates will attend Macra na Feirme’s annual conference in the Montague Hotel, Emo, Co Laois from October 27 to 30.

Chelsea 0 MLS All-Stars 1

BRETT FAVRE and Green Bay are headed to the National Football League play-offs again, but the three-time Most Valuable Player lost his mantle of invincibility in the cold at Lambeau Field on Sunday night.

FOR what seemed like the first time all weekend only the Guinness was pouring as die-hard revellers got ready for a fourth night of jiving at the Cork Jazz Festival.

MORE than 1,000 musicians helped drive the blues away as a rain-drenched Cork had another bumper weekend of jazz and razzmatazz.

THE San Diego Chargers hadn’t a prayer bidding to stop Priest Holmes.

An untrained musician has escaped the world of smoky bars and endless improvisations to land possibly the biggest ever deal for a new jazz star.