TOMÁS O’LEARY admitted on Saturday night that he is “a stronger player and person” after he returned from the horror injury which destroyed his Lions dream.

MUNSTER are hopeful Paul Warwick will be available to take his place at out-half when they begin their defence of the Magners League against Glasgow at Firhill on Friday night, (8pm Setanta Sport).

TWO games into the new season and Munster coach Tony McGahan has every reason to be pleased with progress. For the second week in succession, Munster overcame more experienced English Premiership opposition, in front of more than 7,000 fans who came to enjoy a highly competitive match on a rare sunny summer evening at Musgrave Park.

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Danny Riordan, Toby Morland and Damien Varley will make their Munster debuts in Friday’s friendly against Sale Sharks, while Julien Brugnaut has been named amongst the replacements.

Otago and Chiefs scrum-half Toby Morland has signed a six-month contract with Munster.

THE British Government has spent £13,000 (€19,000) of taxpayers’ money preventing overseas magazines revealing the new identities of the James Bulger murderers, it was revealed yesterday.

FORMER British police officers are to be recruited to assess the criminal investigation into solicitor Rosemary Nelson’s murder in Northern Ireland, it emerged yesterday.

A public inquiry into the loyalist murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson is getting underway today more than six years after her death.

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England's Law Lords were handing down their judgment today on supermodel Naomi Campbell’s breach of confidentiality claim against the Daily Mirror over the publicity it gave to the therapy she received for drug addiction.

A POLICEMAN'S son who led a gang into a savage attack on a schoolboy before deciding he should be strangled and his body butchered into pieces was jailed for life yesterday.

A TEENAGER was facing life in jail last night for torturing, strangling and dismembering a British schoolboy.

A British High Court judge today rejected a claim that a motorway design defect was partly to blame for the Selby rail crash.

The man whose Ecstasy tablets killed 10-year-old Jade Slack was facing jail for drug dealing today.

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The Welsh Rugby Union was to blame for an accident during an amateur match which left a player paralysed for life, the British High Court ruled today.

The Crown’s claim that it had a compelling and powerful case against Barry George, the man jailed for life for the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando, was a ‘‘misdescription’’, the Court of Appeal was told today.

The Daily Mirror was today launching its appeal against a High Court judge’s ruling in favour of supermodel Naomi Campbell in her recent breach of confidentiality case against the newspaper.

Editor Piers Morgan was in defiant mood after a judgment against the Mirror newspaper which ruled that it acted in breach of confidence in publishing details of Naomi Campbell’s therapy at Narcotics Anonymous.

The High Court in Britain was today giving its ruling on whether the British government was negligent in not issuing a speedier warning over a connection between aspirin and a neurological condition which left a child severely brain damaged.

Naomi Campbell is bringing a privacy case in London's High Court.

Proceedings which could decide the release of the killers of toddler James Bulger are set to get under way in private.