Ahead of Monday’s final episode of Game of Thrones’ seventh season, Colette Keane takes a look at how events have shaped the main characters since we first encountered them way back in 2011. There’s also a good chance not all of them will survive Monday’s show

Extending Cheltenham to four days has seriously diluted what’s on offer and it is very much illustrated by this afternoon’s Racing Post Arkle Trophy.

Ospreys 29 Connacht 7: Connacht’s hopes of qualifying for the Champions Cup quarter-finals were hit when out-half Jack Carty added to their growing injury list in a 29-7 defeat to the Ospreys.

On a day that summer forgot, with grey skies and torrential showers, Belfast International Airport is buzzing with people departing for sunnier climes.

Zebre 34 Connacht 51: Connacht are preparing to step it up as their season becomes considerably tougher with the visit of the Ospreys next up in the Galway Sportsground.

Munster coach Anthony Foley is hopeful winger Keith Earls and scrum-half Conor Murray will be fit for Saturday’s Champions Cup showdown against Stade Francais.

Connacht Academy players Sean O’Brien and Peter Robb have secured senior contracts with the province.

How did a scientist who was working on an Aids vaccine go on to create the Clarisonic? Vickie Maye talks to the facial cleanser inventor, Dr Robb Akridge.

Australian mineral exploration company Iluka Resources remains upbeat about its chances of acquiring Dublin-based miner Kenmare Resources.

"I was struck by lightning! What have you done today?"

It was a classic case of right time, wrong place, when the Membranes emerged growling and screaming from the English town of Blackpool in 1977. While the media fixated on the punk and post-punk explosions in London and nearby Manchester, the seaside Lancashire town was treated with neglect.

France 23 Ireland 13

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Money-laundering dog owner gets €500

Australia’s incoming conservative government promised to reboot a stalled mining boom and revive an appetite for investment yesterday after leader Tony Abbott swept into office on a platform to scrap a mining tax and run a stable administration.

IS there gold in the fields?

The Stone Roses are rehearsing eight hours a day for their comeback.

AnnaSophia Robb will play Carrie Bradshaw in a 'Sex and the City' prequel.

Sherry Cracker Gets Normal

Like the Kauai Coast, which provides Sean McNamara’s film with its stunning backdrop, life ebbs and flows, transforming from dead calm to raging storm at frightening speed.

Residents held open-air prayers for the dead and missing today on the lawns of churches cracked and shattered in New Zealand’s earthquake while teams continued their search through debris of one of the country’s worst disasters.

St Mirren 4 Celtic 0

AN investigation into an aircraft accident in Co Wexford last year has revealed the plane was not authorised to operate in Ireland.

A UNIVERSITY professor has admitted beating his wife to death with an iron bar as she wrapped Christmas presents.

WALTER SMITH rued Rangers’ inability to handle set-pieces after the club’s title hopes were dented again. Dundee United moved level on points with the Gers in the Premier League after Barry Robson’s penalty winner at Tannadice.

Based on a classic cult best-seller this charmer centres on the growing friendship of athletic rivals who end up creating their own secret, magical world where they reign as King and Queen.

A man was today charged with the murder of a former loyalist gunrunner.

A man is to be charged in Glasgow tomorrow in connection with the murder of former UVF gunrunner Lindsay Robb.

A FORMER loyalist gunrunner was murdered on New Year’s Eve in what Scottish police described as a frenzied attack.

A man who was convicted of gun-running for the LVF in 1995 has been killed in what police are describing as a "frenzied attack" in Glasgow.

Two teenagers were stabbed to death after falling out with drinking partners in a row over a murdered loyalist paramilitary boss, a court heard today.

A 25-year-old man was today being questioned by police about the double murder of two teenagers in Northern Ireland.

Martin O’Neill made two changes from the side which knocked Clyde out of the Tennent’s Scottish Cup for tonight’s Bank of Scotland Premier League game against Dundee.