Everton 3 Swansea 1

A lorry carrying Stork margarine overturned on the A531 in Staffordshire, UK, when Britain and its allies were fighting Hitler’s Germany in the Second World War.

A transsexual woman in Hong Kong won a groundbreaking court appeal allowing her to marry her boyfriend and forcing the government to re-write the city’s marriage laws.

Hong Kong’s top court has granted a transgender woman the right to marry her boyfriend in a watershed ruling which falls short of allowing same-sex marriage.

A pregnant shop assistant has been awarded €19,500 in compensation after the Equality Tribunal found that her dismissal constituted gender discrimination.

TONIGHT’S the night, people.

The dream became a reality for Nenagh CBS at Semple Stadium, Thurles on Saturday afternoon when they won the All-Ireland Colleges SAHC title for the first time.

More than 180 people who were due to fly to Boston yesterday were left stranded in Co Clare overnight because their airplane was needed to take other passengers from Dublin to the same destination.

Matthew Rees believes France will attempt to “bully” and “irritate” Wales as they attempt to claim the Grand Slam.

Sam Warburton is ready to lead Wales’ final push for the RBS 6 Nations title and Grand Slam glory tomorrow, declaring: “It will be the biggest game of my career.”

France coach Philippe Saint-Andre has named the same side that had been due to play Ireland 10 days ago for Sunday’s RBS 6 Nations clash with Scotland.

ONE case reviewed by the panel involved a young person who had been in care from the age of two and had attempted suicide.

THANK God for Ian Elliott and the Church’s National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC), because without that report we wouldn’t have a clue about the extent of the child abuse cover-up in Cloyne.

Australia coach Robbie Deans tonight insisted Twickenham “holds no baggage” for the Wallabies despite their poor recent record at the ground.

HOLLYWOOD actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, along with members of a crew filming an Oliver Stone movie, were arrested during a bar fight at the weekend, police said.

RAVENHILL will be close to capacity tonight for Ireland’s win-or-bust final pool clash with South Africa in the IRB World U-19 Championship.

EUROPEAN judges yesterday outlawed a British ban on marriage between parents-in-law and children-in-law.

Villarreal 2 Everton 1 (Villarreal win 4-2 on aggregate)

NORTH of England trainer, Jimmy Finnick, was very active at the Curraheen Park sales yesterday, picking up a few choice lots.

Kildare boss Padraig Nolan has to do without defenders defenders Andrew McLoughlin and Karl Ennis in Sunday's Leinster football championship clash with Wicklow at Croke Park.

A junior partner in failed Cork stockbrokers, W&R Morrogh, has pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to fraudulently converting almost Stg £17,000.

Carlow 4-15 Longford 1-16

ON this day three year’s ago the country’s only non-Dublin based stockbroking firm W&R Morrogh ceased trading following a massive internal fraud at the firm on Cork’s South Mall.

DISGRUNTLED clients of defunct stockbroking firm W&R Morrogh are to mount a Supreme Court challenge to a High Court decree which ordered that more than €5 million in shares held in their names should be used to pay the estimated €3m costs of receiver Tom Grace.

A surrogate mother who gave birth to twins with whom she has no biological connection today fought off a bid to have the children sent to the United States.