New Tipperary senior hurling manager Eamon O’Shea has predicted Lar Corbett will rediscover his best form in the blue and gold shirt in 2013.

A facile win for Tipperary in this Munster MHC semi-final in Semple Stadium last night, a resounding win over a Waterford team that had been beaten in the last two Munster finals and were this year fancied in some quarters to go all the way.

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OUR LADY’S, Templemore produced a much-improved performance to storm past Midleton CBS in a one-sided Dr Harty Cup quarter-final replay in Cahir yesterday.

Iraqi militants shot dead an American soldier they have held hostage for nearly three months, saying he was killed because the US government did not change its policy in Iraq, Al-Jazeera television said today.

THE family of an American contractor murdered in Iraq have spoken of their grief after a video apparently showing his killing was released on the internet.

American hostage Thomas Hamill, who was shot in the arm when he was abducted in Iraq, was treated for the wound and regularly received food during his three weeks in captivity.

American hostage Thomas Hamill, who escaped from his Iraqi captors yesterday, has left the country en route to Germany. From there, he will travel home to the US.

Eleven US troops were killed in attacks across Iraq, including a mortar barrage in which six soldiers died and 30 were wounded.

THREE weeks after his kidnapping, US hostage Thomas Hamill was yesterday free.

Truck driver Thomas Hamill, who has escaped from his captors in Iraq, was among seven employees of Halliburton subsidiary KBR, formerly known as Kellogg, Brown & Root, missing since an attack on their convoy west of Baghdad, about 90 miles from Tikrit.

US hostage Thomas Hamill was recovered by US forces south of Tikrit in Iraq today after he apparently escaped from captors who had been holding him since an attack on a convoy on April 9, the US military said.

Three of four bodies found near an attack on a fuel convoy in Iraq earlier this month were contract workers for a US company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.

FOUR Italians working as private security guards for a US company in Iraq and nine Americans were among 40 hostages being held in Iraq yesterday.

More than 40 hostages from 12 nations are being held captive in Iraq, the US revealed today as four missing Italian security guards and a French journalist added to the total.

A fragile ceasefire held between Sunni fighters and US marines in the besieged city of Fallujah, where doctors said more than 600 Iraqis, including civilians, were killed in the past week.

A third round of negotiations aimed at ending fighting in the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah will be held today, a US commander said.