The Nenagh man accompanied co-coach Laurent Travers and captain Yannick Nyanga to yesterday’s media event and found himself facing 50% of the enquiries from the floor.

Donnacha Ryan likes to lose himself in Paris when he isn’t doing his day job with Racing 92.

Champagne doesn’t have a season — I’m fairly sure most of us would drink it every day if we were let, writes Leslie Williams.

Arsenal needed to appoint a new captain following Mikel Arteta's departure this summer.

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Ireland 0 France 1: Ireland coach Dave Connell will rally his charges for Thursday’s make-or-break clash with Switzerland after a frustrating opening to the Uefa Women’s Under 17 European Championships yesterday.

The first edition of Charlie Hebdo published after last week’s deadly attack by Islamist gunmen sold out within minutes at newspaper kiosks around France, with readers queuing up for copies to support the satirical weekly.

1989 set a high bar for drama in the Tour de France but 2014 has all the ingredients to eclipse it

Ken Loach and Mike Leigh will go head-to-head at the Cannes Film Festival.

Olivier Giroud wants Arsenal to kick on in the Champions League after securing qualification for a 16th successive season.

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THE KOOPLES, rather like Brand Beckham, shows that a gorgeous couple in love isn’t just enviable; it’s a concept that can sell clothes.

Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny has agreed a new long-term contract with the Gunners.

French Football Federation president Noel le Graet has labelled Samir Nasri’s behaviour “intolerable” after the midfielder’s alleged foul-mouthed rant at a journalist following Les Bleus’ Euro 2012 exit.

French Football Federation president Noel le Graet has labelled Samir Nasri’s behaviour “intolerable” after the midfielder’s alleged foul-mouthed rant at a journalist following Les Bleus’ Euro 2012 exit last night.

FOR three weeks from next Wednesday, Dunnes Stores is promoting its ‘Mediterranean food and wine festival’.

WHILE everyone insists on making us Gooners ever more aware of the length of time the Gunners have dallied in the doldrums, you’d have to be a pretty damn visually challenged footie lover, not to be grateful for the privilege of watching Arsene Wenger’s lads play live every week.

WITH Saturday’s early kick-off at Ewood Park live on the box, I wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about a crack of dawn departure for a long schlep up to Lancashire, after an exhausting week at work.

Thirty years previously, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, Andrei Filipov (Guskov) was denounced and demoted for hiring Jewish musicians and now a broken drunk he haunts the theatre where he once dominated as a cleaner.

Arsenal have signed defender Laurent Koscielny from French side Lorient.

FIFA have contacted the French Sports Ministry to remind them not to interfere in the workings of the French Football Federation as the country deals with the fallout from a disastrous World Cup campaign.

THE grief-stricken father of murdered French student Laurent Bonomo lashed out after a judge showed mercy to his son’s “sadistic” killers.

Teenage misfit Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) moves to Forks, Washington, to live with her cop father Charlie (Billy Burke).

A 21-year-old man was arrested today in connection with the murders of French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez in London, Scotland Yard said.

MANCHESTER United coach Alex Ferguson has described his young team as “little lions at play” and the United dressing-room as “a theatre of comedy” before Sunday’s lunchtime clash against Liverpool. He also revealed that this season’s impressive side is the result of years of planning and patience and said that his passion for the game remains as strong as ever.

A driver had to swerve to avoid a car travelling slowly into a Paris tunnel seconds before the crash which killed Diana, Princess of Wales, her inquest heard today.

WITHIN 24 hours of its opening, 15 babies had been born at the country’s newest maternity hospital.

Gunshots sounded and street brawls broke out today in Kinshasa among a crowd rallying for the runner-up in Democratic Republic of Congo’s landmark presidential vote as he pursued a court challenge of his loss.

Congo, the massive nation at the heart of the world’s poorest continent, chooses a new president tomorrow in the first multi-party elections since independence nearly half a century ago.

MATTHIAS KESSLER produced a strong finish to win an action-packed third stage of the Tour de France yesterday as world champion Tom Boonen claimed the yellow jersey.

Rafael Benitez insists he is far from unsettled at Anfield as Liverpool head into their Champions League crunch match against Benfica.

NEWCASTLE boss Graeme Souness insists he had no choice but to get rid of Craig Bellamy and Laurent Robert in order to save the club.

Newcastle boss Graeme Souness insists he had no choice but to get rid of Craig Bellamy and Laurent Robert in order to save the club.

Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie is confident Alain Perrin can get the very best out of wayward winger Laurent Robert.

New Zealand said today it is expelling a former Iraqi Cabinet minister because he was responsible for chemical weapons production under ousted President Saddam Hussein.

Craig Bellamy could be ready to be unleashed on the Premiership in earnest when Newcastle head for Blackburn on Wednesday night.

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Ruud van Nistelrooy is remaining calm as he and his Manchester United team-mates enter the business end of the season.

World Cup veteran Laurent Blanc will only have a watching brief when Manchester United face Basle in the Champions League on Wednesday as he is planning to retire at the end of the season.

MANCHESTER UNITED missed a golden opportunity to close the gap on Arsenal at the top of the Premiership yesterday, conceding a late goal to draw 1-1 against Manchester City while the Gunners were also held 1-1 by Newcastle.