Clermont Auvergne overcame a ferocious Ospreys fightback to retain their proud European home record with a bonus-point 34-29 win in Pool Two of the Champions Cup.

Ospreys 25 Exeter 13: Exeter became the first English club to lose in this season’s European Champions Cup after Wales star Dan Biggar led the Ospreys’ Liberty Stadium victory march.

Wing Eli Walker crossed for two tries as Ospreys secured a much-needed bonus point victory over Zebre at the Liberty Stadium.

Ospreys 18 Munster 20: A last-gasp converted try from replacement CJ Stander saw Munster stun the Ospreys and make it two wins from two at the start of the new Guinness Pro 12 campaign.

David Horsey opened up a three-shot lead at the Made in Denmark tournament after shooting a four-under-par second-round 67 in Farso.

A student sent a text message saying she knew she was going to die after taking toxic “slimming pills” and driving herself to hospital, an inquest has heard.

President Michael D Higgins has urged people to reach out to those at risk of being sucked into radicalisation and extremism.

The medical watchdog has issued a public warning on the dangers of buying potentially lethal diet pills online.

Ospreys 31 Ulster 20

Leinster 18 Ospreys 12

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Australia’s Parliament House lifted a short-lived ban on facial coverings including burqas and niqabs after the prime minister intervened.

Connacht 14 Newport Gwent Dragons 11

Newport Gwent Dragons 19 Leinster 23

Relatives of British IRA victims faced off in London over their view of the peace process outside an Irish Republican event addressed by Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams.

The gathering in Warrington on Wednesday night was another step in cementing the Northern peace process. It was a magnificent tribute to the tenacity and foresight of Colin Parry, whose 12-year-old son Tim was murdered in the Provisional IRA’s bombing 20 years ago. Another victim was Jonathan Ball, 3.

Martin McGuinness said “his heart goes out” to protestors at a peace lecture he is to give in a town bombed by the terror group.

The father of a boy killed by the IRA bomb attack in Warrington 20 years ago said he has not forgiven the terror group for murdering his son and described inviting its former commander Martin McGuinness to give a peace lecture in the town as an “audacious event”.

Former Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry has no doubt the Reds are still feeling the effects of the period when they were overseen by George Gillett and Tom Hicks, who he says “we all wish passionately had not owned the club”.

Former Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry has no doubt the Reds are still feeling the effects of the period when they were overseen by George Gillett and Tom Hicks, who he says “we all wish passionately had not owned the club”.

Connacht 30 Newport Gwent Dragons 11

Dragons 19 Ulster 46

The parents of a 12-year-old boy who died in an IRA bomb attack have told how they never want to know the identity of their son’s killer because it would upset them too much.

Cork Choral Festival is more than competition, it is primarily about the joy of singing, writes Declan Townsend

Team manager Guy Easterby has played down a historic double and warned Leinster they have won nothing yet.

Conor Murphy (Eurocycles) sprinted to a brilliant win in yesterday’s third stage of the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan as Ryan Sherlock (Iverk Produce/Carrick Wheelers) took custody of the yellow jersey after a gruelling 142-kilometre leg around West Kerry.

Richard Branson has had to pull out of a gruelling charity swim across the Irish Sea after a fire destroyed his luxury Caribbean home.

THE wreckage of a Spitfire aircraft including its Rolls Royce engine was dug from a peat bog yesterday 70 years after it crashed in neutral Irish territory during the Second World War.

I CAN take the despair, it’s the hope I can’t stand. If I had a euro for each time I’ve heard John Cleese’s ‘Clockwise’ quip, I’d have €4.50 by now.

Prince William had his first glimpse of his stunning bride Kate Middleton as she walked down the aisle of Westminster Abbey today.

IT wasn’t exactly a “where were you when Kennedy was shot?” moment was it?

Room-mates Gary Boyd and John Parry both shot rounds of 63 to equal the course record at the Castello Masters in Spain.

England’s John Parry surged into the early clubhouse lead on the third day of the Castello Masters in Spain.

NEEDS must: I can’t avoid the subject of Liverpool that, in itself, probably encapsulates ‘Good Week’, ‘Bad Week’ and ‘Gripe of the Week’.

St Andrews, the Home of Golf, could tomorrow see Lee Westwood crowned as the new world number one - and little-known John Parry as the shock winner of one of Europe's richest events.

Lee Westwood gave himself a chance to become world number one with a superb charge at Carnoustie today, but little-known John Parry was still the man to catch in the Dunhill Links Championship.

England's John Parry left nine of Europe's Ryder Cup side trailing in his wake at St Andrews today - in an event he was not qualified for until he won his first European Tour title two weeks ago.

Padraig Harrington had a spring in his step again as he moved on from France to Wales for the Ryder Cup.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON delivered the European Ryder Cup team a timely boost in producing an impressive eight under par 64 on the final day of the Vivendi Cup in Chambourcy.

England’s John Parry – a team-mate of Rory McIlroy in the 2007 Walker Cup - today became the third rookie to win on this season’s European Tour.

England’s John Parry will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Vivendi Cup in Paris.