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The leader of a group which commemorates fallen IRA men has denied in the High Court he was involved in an "arranged road traffic accident."

The Dublin hotel where David Byrne was shot dead last year has received a net insurance payout of €150,000 as a result of the gangland shooting and its impact on the hotel business.

A pub owner, dubbed Fr Ted character Pat Mustard after he was caught masturbating behind his bar, claims he was beaten up by a regular after the man was barred from his premises.

The wife of one of Ireland’s richest men, JP McManus, has been stopped in her tracks, for now, from further extending a family home on a ‘millionaires’ row’ in Dublin 4.

Trevor Croly, the newly appointed manager of Bray Wanderers, insists the job is not a poisoned chalice but, rather, a “fantastic challenge”, despite the club’s currently embattled status on and off the pitch.

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Mark English has said he is aiming to get his 800 metre time down enough for a podium position at the Olympics.

Roisin McGettigan Dumas will receive a European Indoor Championship bronze medal from the 2009 Games at the National Athletics Awards at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Santry tomorrow.

Last April one year, Carol Sharp picked up the phone in Edinburgh and put a call through to her daughter Lynsey in the United States.

A short video of people just being happy in Co Donegal made American hip-hop star Pharrell Williams break down in tears on Oprah Winfrey’s television show Oprah Prime.

Blaming a pub owner for the alleged injuries of a woman during a rush to grab a spot prize at an Ann Summers sex toy party would fly in the face of common sense, a court has been told.

An engineer has told the High Court a “proper risk assessment” should be carried out in advance of throwing items in the air at Ann Summers lingerie parties in venues where alcohol is being served. He was not saying such parties should be banned, Barry Tennyson said.

A mother of two who claims she injured her ribs when she was knocked down at an Ann Summers lingerie party has sued the pub where the event was held.

A former bus driver who has been left in a wheelchair following a car crash had his medical card removed from him earlier this year, the High Court heard yesterday.

Losses narrowed sharply at Cork-based property and food group Reox Holdings last year to €2.2m.

A dominant second half display in Portarlington on Saturday saw Cork book their place in All-Ireland Vocational Schools SAFC final.

ONCE polling opens on the islands this morning and before it closes around the rest of Donegal on Thursday night, voters in the South West constituency appear determined to be heard.

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ROBERT HEFFERNAN was stunned after failing to make the top 10 in the men’s 20k walk at the world championships on Saturday.

The 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships got off to a disappointing start for Ireland this morning as Wicklow's Roisin McGettigan failed to qualify from the 3000 metres Steeplechase heats.

Paul Hession, the big draw on the second and final day of the Woodie's DIY Senior Track and Field Championships in Santry, was forced to withdraw from the 100 metres today due to illness.

DAVID GILLICK, fresh from his record breaking run in Madrid last Saturday night, will feel at home among some of the greats of 400m running when he lines up at the Golden Gala in Rome tonight.

Ireland's Roisin McGettigan just missed out on a medal in the 1500 final at the Europan Indoors in Turin.

David McCarthy qualified for the semi-final of the 800m as he finished as a fastest runner-up in his heat in a time of 1.49.59 at the European Indoor Championships in Turin, Italy.

RÓISIN McGETTIGAN promised a lot going into last night’s final of the women’s 3,000m steeplechase after her fine run in Friday’s heats but she finished last in a sensational race which saw Guinara Galkina-Samitova (Russia) take the gold medal in a new world record time of 8:58.81.

Ireland's Roisin McGettigan finished in last place with a time of 9:55.89 in the women’s 3,000m steeplechase final in Beijing this afternoon.

A SMILING Roisin McGettigan last night compared the Beijing Olympic experience to her Community Games career after securing a place in tomorrow’s 3000 metre steeplechase final (2.30pm, Irish)

Ireland may have suffered boxing disappointment today at the Olympics, but the steeplechase semi-finals have gone spectacularly.

RACE walking legend Robert Korzeniowski arrives in Beijing today to help Robert Heffernan put the finishing touches to his preparations for tomorrow morning’s (2am Irish time) 20km walk.

ROISÍN McGETTIGAN earned a deserved and timely boost in advance of the Olympic Games when she won the women’s steeplechase at the first session of the VIVA British Grand Prix at Crystal Palace last night.

Beijing-bound Roisin McGettigan claimed a notable victory in the 3,000 metres steeplechase at tonight's Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace.

JAMES NOLAN and Roisín McGettigan got their Olympic years off to flying starts at the weekend’s Reebok Boston Indoor Games with encouraging runs in their respective mile races.

JOANNE CUDDIHY took Irish women’s 400m running to a new level at the world championships in Osaka yesterday when she set the national record at a world class 50.73 secs and only narrowly missed out on a place in the final.

Kilkenny athlete Joanne Cuddihy smashed Karen Shinkins’ eight-year-old Irish record during today’s semi final for the 400m at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka.

Ireland made a good start to the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Osaka in the early hours of this morning as Wicklow duo Roisin McGettigan and Fionnuala Britton both progressed to the final of the 3,000 metres Steeplechase.

FORMER Musgraves senior executive Eoin McGettigan has been named as the new chief executive of Lifestyle Sports.

Rosin McGettigan has failed to qualify for the final of the women's 3000m steeplechase on the opening morning of the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki.

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LIAM KEARNS is definitely staying on as Limerick senior football manager for 2005.

SÉAMUS POWER took the national Inter-counties Cross-Country Championships to a new level in Belvedere, Mullingar, yesterday, when he once again battled his way through the pain barrier to win the title for an amazing ninth successive time.