Nine top Irish sports stars - two of whom are joint winners of the Horse Racing award - have been chosen to receive the 2009 Texaco Sport Stars of the Year Awards.

THE debate raged on in Turnberry bars and in national phone-ins long after Tom Watson had fled the scene of his flirtation with history.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese was treated to an oasis of Irishness in the Dubai desert yesterday — complete with underage GAA and top jockeys.