Person: Peter Hawkins

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world

3.6 million children in Iraq at risk, says Unicef

The UN children’s fund has warned that 3.6 million Iraqi children are at “serious risk” of death, injury, sexual violence, abduction and recruitment into armed groups.

sport

Damien Shaw just fails to land home blow in Rás

sport

Irate Italians prove a point as Matteo Malucelli takes Rás stage

sport

Degenkolb storms to Vuelta stage win

sport

McCarthy takes the first yellow

sport

Marrey geared for one last Rás

Roche finishes brilliant Vuelta ride in fifth place

Ireland’s Nicolas Roche notched a career-best Grand Tour finish securing fifth place overall at the end of the Vuelta a Espana in Madrid yesterday.

Mon, 16 Sep, 2013

Brilliant Bennett revels in finally grabbing second Rás stage victory

Carrick-on-Suir sprinter Sam Bennett delivered the An Post Chain Reaction team’s second stage win of this year’s An Post Rás when he outgunned Dane Morten Ollegaard (Blue Water Cycling), Polish rider Marcin Bialablocki (Team UK Youth) and the rest of the peloton in a mass bunch sprint to the line at the end of stage three in Listowel yesterday.

Wed, 22 May, 2013

Hawkins snatches yellow in Nenagh

It was all change on the An Post Rás yesterday as a seemingly flat second stage delivered a new stage winner and another Irish race leader into Nenagh.

Tue, 21 May, 2013

Bennett has to pull out

Irish pair Ronan McLaughlin (An Post Sean Kelly) and Peter Hawkins (IG Sigma Sport) endured difficult days yesterday on the sixth stage of the Tour of Britain while McLaughlin’s team-mate Sam Bennett was forced to pull out with a knee injury.

Sat, 15 Sep, 2012

Triumphant return as Contador reigns in Spain

Just over a month after returning to the sport following a two-year doping ban, Spain’s Alberto Contador (SaxoBank-Tinkoff Bank) wrapped up overall victory at the Vuelta a Espana as the race finished on the streets of Madrid yesterday.

Mon, 10 Sep, 2012

Four Irish cyclists in Tour of Britain

Ireland will have four representatives in the Tour of Britain which starts tomorrow in Ipswich.

Sat, 08 Sep, 2012

Bagdonas digs out win on gruelling Rás stage

Defending champion Gediminas Bagdonas (An Post) survived a massive crash in the peloton with around 50km to go yesterday to rejoin the front of the race with the help of his team and take victory on stage three of the An Post Rás in Westport yesterday.

Wed, 23 May, 2012

Bialablocki escapes to victory to snatch Rás lead

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.

Mon, 21 May, 2012

Robbie old news as Peace threatens to break out in LA

IF the US isn’t feeling the tremors of the Robbie Keane deal as much as Crumlin and north London, then it’s because American sports fans have enough of their own want-away stars to contend with as it is.

Wed, 17 Aug, 2011

Walker wins but Bennett steals show

NICHOLAS WALKER (Australia Cinelli-DownUnder) was the surprise stage winner and Simon Richardson (Britain Rapha Condor) took the race-leader’s yellow jersey, but it was young Sam Bennett (Tipperary Dan Morrissey) who turned in the performance of the day to finish sixth in the uphill sprint when the FBD Insurance Rás arrived in Killorglin last evening.

Thu, 21 May, 2009

Walsall and Wimbledon scoreless

An opening period almost completely devoid of skill and invention reached a suitably goalless conclusion at the Bescot Stadium this afternoon.

Sat, 25 Jan, 2003