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As has become fairly traditional for me at this stage, Willie has left me on the side-lines the weekend before Cheltenham.

Drew Brees used one hand to hold his helmet and the other to wipe away tears.

It is understood thieves who stole an 800 year old relic from Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin returned it because they thought it was cursed.

Cork hit all the right notes with its unique music event, write Eoghan O’Sullivan and Des O’Driscoll

The eldest of the Kardashian Krew also opened up about family life with her husband Kanye and their two children, North-West and Saint.

The fight to control narcotics in Central America has cost more than 40,000 lives. Des Breen reads two books which expose the vicious reality behind the war on drugs.

An ancient Gaelic festival is the perfect antidote to the frenzy and commercialism of other feast days, writes Nuala Woulfe.

Long before he became notorious for his views on immigration in his controversy filled US presidential election bid, Donald Trump had already hit the heights of football administration and fame on the Saint and Greavsie show, writes Robert McNamara .

The search for the new England manager is well underway and there are some familiar faces lining up to restore some pride in the Three Lions in the latest Aprés Match parody.

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IT may have come as something of a shock to more conservative Catholics to learn that Pope (now Saint) John Paul II had an intense friendship with an attractive married woman for more than 30 years.

Kanye West has asked Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion.

As we move toward the centenary celebrations of 1916 it is important to remember the contribution made by artists and writers who, as part of the Cultural Revival, contributed to the construction of the Irish nation, writes Martin McConigley    

Pineau De Re returns to the scene of his finest hour in the Betfred Becher Chase at Aintree hoping to break a curse that stretches as far back as 2003.

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What Ireland has is vibrancy... But business needs to be minded, or it will go elsewhere again, writes Gerard Howlin

Brian O’Driscoll… Pray for us… AP McCoy… Pray for us… Henry Shefflin… Pray for us… Ruby Walsh…. Pray for us.

Ireland has thrown all kinds of everything at the Eurovision Song Contest over the past decade, to no avail.

My dictionary tells me that the word marriage is “the ceremony whereby a man and a woman become husband and wife; the union of a man and a woman as husband and wife in matrimony.” There is no other definition anywhere available.

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For almost 50 years BBC’s Grandstand show defined Saturday afternoons in the UK and it came to do something similar here in Ireland for many of us once the signal for the British channels began to be picked up beyond the east coast.

Regarding all those hagiographic eulogies, Maggie Thatcher must be spinning in her grave that she never faked her conversion to Catholicism; by now, she would surely be a shoe-in for sainthood.

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Aidan O’Brien introduced a potentially smart recruit in Sir Walter Scott to land the www.sesif.org 2-Y-0 Race in Dundalk yesterday, the Galileo colt getting the better of the Ger Lyons-trained previous winners Seeking Luck and Washboard Sam after a protracted three-way battle.

French building materials group Saint Gobain is tipped to boost its Irish presence through a takeover of Tubs and Tiles owner, BHT Group.

Gardaí in Dublin are reiterating their appeal to anyone who may have visited Christ Church Cathedral between last Friday evening and noon yesterday to contact them.

CHAMPION Court will try to make it third-time lucky at Cheltenham this season as he lines up in tomorrow’s Cheltenham Pony Club Raceday Novices’ Chase.

EVEN all these years later, with Ireland just one game away from qualifying for a major tournament, Eoin Hand sometimes thinks about just how close he was to qualifying for Spain 82, only for that “cheat” of a Portuguese referee in Brussels.

YOU KNOW you’re in trouble when an interview starts with a list of questions that are off-limits.

THE autumn is upon us and you’re thinking of where to go for a quick break, a pick-me-up after the stresses of the summer and before the dark days of winter.

YOU can say you’re into the national hunt season proper when you get to October, although it looks like Down Royal at the beginning of November will be when Bostons Angel, Oscars Well and Saludos will make their seasonal reappearances.

THE Tom Mullins trained Fosters Cross ran his rivals ragged to land the featured carlton.ie/galwaycity Handicap at the first stage of the Ballybrit festival last night.

AN 11-point haul from Bandon young gun Ronan Crowley set his side up for an IHC first round victory over St Catherine’s at Church Road on Saturday evening.

THE reputed head of a 14th-century Italian saint was sold for €3,500 at an auction in Co Meath yesterday.

FEW OPPONENTS can claim to have got the better of Northampton’s 22 stone prop Soane Tonga’uiha in the scrum in recent years, but the Samoan admits Leinster’s Mike Ross is in an elite club of one.

Grade One Aintree staying novice hurdle winner Saint Are is set to go novice chasing next season.

ALWAYS Waining may have missed getting a run in the John Smith’s Grand National by the skin of his teeth but he managed to achieve the next best thing at Aintree on Friday.

DOUBTING the quality of the players lining out for Toulon in this afternoon’s Heineken Cup game against Munster at Thomond Park would serve no useful purpose.

The Big Barn Dance, by Jenny Arthur (Caterpillar; €11.50), is the bees’ knees. The spreads in this sturdy board book each focus on a farm animal. Press the button on the strip panel and the animal will moo, baa, quack, etc. Excellent entertainment for age 18 months and upwards.