A potential buyer has emerged for a failed waste firm at the centre of a sit-in protest which has closed with losses of some €2m and 25 jobs.

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On a crowded and humid ward in the Vicente Sotto Memorial Hospital in the Philippines, in the city of Cebu, amid single beds packed with families, lies a young boy, his arm heavily bandaged.

HE’LL never be one to bore you with talk of glory days like that guy in the bar in the Bruce song, but on those few occasions when Mick O’Driscoll reflects on the career he’s just left behind, The Miracle Game was probably his day of days alright.

The last race on tonight’s card could develop into a match between Sede Vacante and Splendid Joy but preference is for the former, who has rediscovered his best form in recent weeks.

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When Mal O’Kelly joined Leinster they didn’t have dressing rooms but when he left the only thing they didn’t have was a ladyboys’ tag

Devin Toner is planning to mark his Test debut by fixing Ireland’s malfunctioning line-out.

ROB KEARNEY admits sentiment is playing a big role in Leinster’s preparations for Saturday’s Magners League decider against the Ospreys at the RDS.

LEO CULLEN’S shoulder injury has given Leinster’s senior statesman, Malcolm O’Kelly, a golden opportunity to wrap up his illustrious career on a high in the Magners League final at the RDS (6.30pm) on Saturday.

AFTER a frustrating year when medics struggled to get to the root of a hip problem, one of Leinster’s rising young stars, Eoin O’Malley, has learned the art of patience.

SHANE Byrne and Reggie Corrigan’s first memories of John Hayes are oddly similar.

LEINSTER have included internationals Kevin McLaughlin, Sean O’Brien, Shane Jennings, Eoin Reddan and Jonathan Sexton in their squad for Saturday’s Magners League clash with Scarlets at the RDS (6.30pm).

THE Philippine military said yesterday it knows where a kidnapped elderly Irish priest is being held on a remote southern island and contact had been made with his abductors to get the hostage lifesaving medicine.

CHANGING a successful formula has always been anathema to Declan Kidney, so it was with little or no surprise that Saturday’s starting XV against England will be the same as kicked off against France and Italy.

MICHAEL CHEIKA remains upbeat about Malcolm O’Kelly’s chances of escaping further censure for the stamp on Phil Vickery last week, an act which is threatening the player’s participation in Sunday’s final Heineken Cup group game against Edinburgh.

WEXFORD’S footballers may have achieved one major breakthrough at Croke Park yesterday but their hurling counterparts proved to be in no mood to accommodate a second such romantic script.

LET’S get the obvious out of the way first; this weekend, for the final round of pool games in the Heineken Cup, Trevor Hogan should be preparing for Munster’s massive game against Leicester in Thomond Park.

DONNCHA O’CALLAGHAN counts his blessings every time he looks at the CV of his international second row understudy.

THE big boys are back for Leinster and Munster — most of them at least.

ANTHONY FOLEY makes his 75th appearance in the Heineken Cup leading Munster out against Leinster at Lansdowne Road on Sunday.

THE well held view that Malcolm O’Kelly only plays to his full potential when the mood is on him appears to carry some substance.

THE new Jamie Oliver? Paul O’Connell mightn’t be an automatic selection for the kitchen, but his culinary creations and those of his Ireland team-mates figure in a new book of recipes, proceeds from which will go to the IRUPA Injured Players Fund.

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Malcolm O’Kelly’s Lions dream is over after he suffered a groin injury which has ruled him out of the 2005 tour of New Zealand.

Malcolm O’Kelly’s participation in the 2005 Lions tour was today hinging on the opinion of a New Zealand specialist after he suffered a lower abdominal injury in training.

Malcolm O’Kelly becomes Ireland’s most-capped player against Scotland on Saturday, and a second RBS 6 Nations win is next on the list of the giant lock’s goals.

THE interviews all sound the same. Irish players insisting on the one hand they quietly fancy their chances of winning the championship, if not the grand slam.

THERE can be no finer or more intimidating arena to parade one’s talents than the hallowed Twickenham pitch.

PAUL O’CONNELL’S memories of his previous outing against the Welsh at Lansdowne Road are bittersweet and a little hazy.

KEITH WOOD was as surprised as anyone but still insists that Eddie O'Sullivan's decision to give Paul O'Connell the captaincy for Ireland's Six Nations clash in Paris on Saturday is a risk worth taking.

THE first drop goal of his international career and what an important one!

IT’S the great Malcolm O’Kelly debate.

The unsuspecting stranger clearly had not recognised Ireland’s most famous rugby player when he anxiously sought the use of a mobile phone in the middle of busy down-town Dublin.