A businessman has been found guilty of being part of a near-£200,000 conspiracy to pass off 30 tonnes of horsemeat as beef, much of which went on to enter the food chain.

MUSIC NEWS: It may be legally classed as hearsay, but NME reports that a Stone Roses fan met Reni recently, and the drummer told him the band have recorded music other than their recent release ‘All For One’ and that it “sounds beautiful”. 

Northern Ireland inched ever closer to a place in France next summer after victory over the 10-man Faroe Islands.

Sligo Rovers 0 Cork City 2

Celtic 2 Stjarnan 0: Celtic’s Champions League journey began with a comfortable 2-0 qualifying win over Icelandic outfit Stjarnan at Parkhead last night.

SligoRovers 1 Bray Wanderers 3: David Cassidy was the toast of Bray Wanderers last night after his superb hat-trick earned the Seagulls their first points of the season and sent struggling Sligo into even more trouble as Owen Heary’s side search for their first win.

Dundalk 3  Sligo Rovers 0

Sligo Rovers 1 Cork City 1

England 1 Norway 0

Motherwell 0 Celtic 5

Faroe Islands 0 Germany 3

Sweden 2 Faroe Islands 0

Giovanni Trapattoni labelled Robbie Keane the best Irish player he has seen in 30 years after the striker’s hat-trick earned the Republic of Ireland a World Cup qualifying victory over the Faroe Islands.

Republic of Ireland 3 Faroe Islands 0

Carmaker BMW is the world’s most reputable company, according to new research on the top 100 global brands.

Justin Timberlake’s comeback album has sold nearly one million units in its first week.

UN peacekeepers are on track to leave East Timor by the year's end, but the international community will remain engaged in one of the world's youngest nations through other channels.

There will be no second London title for Wimbledon champions Jonny Marray and Freddie Nielsen after they went out in the semi-finals of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals this evening.

Faroe Islands 1-4 Republic of Ireland

Faroe Islands 1 Sweden 2

Faroe Islands 1 Sweden 2

Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed he had a “hot affair” with actress Brigitte Nielsen at a time when he and Maria Shriver were dating and already living together.

Jonny Marray showed Andy Murray how it is done by becoming a British Wimbledon champion on Centre Court today.

National Irish Bank is to close its network of 27 branches with the loss of at least 100 jobs, in a response to what the company described as the radically changed Irish banking environment.

CELEBRATING the exploits of frontierswoman Martha Jane Canary, Doris Day sang, “Take me back to the Black Hills, the Black Hills of Dakota”, in the 1950s film Calamity Jane.

On a day that, up until the final kilometres, looked earmarked for a mass bunch sprint into Kilkenny yesterday, Polish rider Marcin Bialablocki led a late four-man escape group across the line on Patrick Street to take stage victory and become the first overall leader of the 2012 An Post Rás.

Two hostages were killed as a Danish warship intercepted a cargo vessel that had been hijacked by pirates off Somalia’s coast, Denmark’s navy said today.

Steve Nielsen has finally accepted an offer to join Team Lotus as their new sporting director after turning them down last year.

EUROPEAN leaders may struggle to maintain the euphoria that drove the euro to its biggest one-day gain in more than a year as scrutiny deepens on their latest attempt to stem the region’s turmoil.

GREECE needs to write down its debt by at least 60% and investors should get securities that offer a share in the country’s future economic growth, according to former Argentine finance minister Guillermo Nielsen.

Queen Mother Champion Chase hero Sizing Europe profited from the final-fence fall of Rubi Light when running out a fortuitous winner of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Champion Chase at Gowran Park.

DESPITE decades spent playing sober commanders and serious captains, Leslie Nielsen insisted that he was always made for comedy. He proved it in his career’s second act.

Leslie Nielsen, who went from drama to inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in 'Airplane!' and accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in the 'Naked Gun' comedies, has died at 84.

Sylvester Stallone thinks he was having an "out-of-body experience" when he married Brigitte Nielsen.

Harry Redknapp handed Aaron Lennon his first start since December as Tottenham looked to win their £50m confrontation with Manchester City and book a place in next season’s Champions League.

Gareth Barry is set to return for Manchester City as the Blues look to put themselves in line for Champions League qualification by beating Tottenham at Eastlands tomorrow night.

Roberto Mancini must decide whether to place his trust in Marton Fulop or Gunnar Nielsen to keep goal for Manchester City in their top-four duel with Aston Villa at Eastlands tomorrow.

Marton Fulop is expected to train with Manchester City today after the Premier League blocked the Champions League-chasing Blues from prising Joe Hart back from Birmingham.

Manchester City have been advised by the Premier League that they will not be able to recall Joe Hart from Birmingham to solve their goalkeeper crisis.

Manchester City have approached Birmingham about the possibility of recalling goalkeeper Joe Hart from his loan spell at St Andrew’s.

Former Republic of Ireland boss Brian Kerr has given rookie goalkeeper Gunnar Nielsen a timely boost as he prepares to help Manchester City secure a top-four place.