Cork City 2 West Ham United 6

West Ham manager Sam Allardyce made 10 changes for tonight’s Capital One Cup second round tie with Crewe, with captain Kevin Nolan the only player retained from Saturday’s 3-0 defeat to Swansea.

AN attacking century from William Porterfield helped Ireland coast to a seven-wicket win over Scotland in their opening match of the World Cup qualifying tournament today.

Australia’s prime minister-elect today said he would pull his country’s combat troops out of Iraq by mid-2008 – setting a timetable for the withdrawal he has promised previously.

Scotland’s batsmen were forced to dig deep on the opening day of their Intercontinental Cup clash with Ireland at Stormont.

THE boys can hold their heads up high, after yet another credible performance at the World Cup, this time against England.

In what might prove to be one of the decisive matches of the tournament, Scotland held their nerve to defeat arch-rivals Ireland by three wickets in their opening game of the ICC World Cricket League Division 1 at the Gymkhana Cricket Ground in Nairobi on Tuesday.

A fire which ravaged a beauty spot may have been started deliberately.

Ireland 15 Canada 8

Film-maker George Lucas has finally given the go ahead to a script for the long-awaited Indiana Jones sequel, and has passed it onto director Steven Spielberg for fine tuning.

Bob Geldof has welcomed a decision by online auction site eBay to ban the sale of Live 8 concert tickets from its website.

AN online auction site was last night forced to take down sales of Live 8 tickets from its website.

A priest in Northern Ireland has stepped down from his ministry during a police investigation, it was revealed today.

Former leading Rugby Football League official Greg McCallum is back in the game after being appointed to a new-look judiciary in Australia.

Dozens of people were injured when a tornado tore apart a town in the US, levelling a church and a petrol station, witnesses and officials said.

Star Wars producer Rick McCallam says the making of Attack Of The Clones has revolutionised Hollywood

Star Wars producer Rick McCallum says some of the films' fans are "seriously deranged."

Officials from rugby union and rugby league are expected to meet later next week to thrash out a dispute which has emerged over the 'poaching' of young talent from the 13-man code.

The Rugby Football Union have denied allegations that they are planning a raid on rugby league.