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Conor McGregor’s critics have at least been consistent. All talk, not enough action, they say.

It was a baptism of fire for the Irish Women’s 4k Team Pursuit squad in their debut at the UCI World Track Cycling Championships in Paris yesterday as they finished last of 16 teams in qualifying.

Though plans to build Ireland’s first velodrome remain etched on the drawing board, Ireland’s track cycling team is motoring along regardless. 

Ireland’s Josie Knight has won a silver medal in the Junior Women’s Individual Pursuit at the UEC European U23/Junior Track Championships in Anadia, Portugal.

Former UCI president Pat McQuaid is still to decide whether he will take part in the Cycling Independent Reform Commission set up by his successor Brian Cookson, vowing not to be drawn into a “witch hunt”.

Cycling Ireland High Performance coach Brian Nugent is upbeat ahead of this week’s UCI World Track Championships in Cali, Colombia and believes he has medal-winning form in the three-person Irish team of Martyn Irvine, Caroline Ryan and debutant at this level, Ryan Mullen.

Eight people were killed and six others injured when a man entered a nightclub in the Colombian city of Cali and opened fire, police said.

A suitcase bomb exploded near a town square where 5,000 children were celebrating Halloween, killing two suspected bombers and injuring 37 people, including two boys who were in a critical condition in hospital today, authorities in Colombia said.

A British Royal Marine Commando will abseil with the Olympic flame into the Tower of London today.

Kelsey Grammer is selling his house for $18m (€14.24m).

Cheryl Cole is house-hunting in Malibu.

Somewhere late at night in June, after crossing the Mississippi, the legs will begin to burn and the dark night will close in. That’s when the cyclist begins to question their sanity

THE toll from weeks of heavy rains across Colombia has risen to 174 people dead and over 1.5 million homeless, the Colombian Red Cross said.

A car bomb ripped open cars and storefronts in the administrative centre of Colombia’s Pacific port of Buenaventura, killing six people and wounding more than 30, authorities said.

A WOMAN pronounced dead by doctors in Colombia has been rushed back to the hospital after a funeral home worker saw her move while preparing her body.

Everton defender Joseph Yobo has withdrawn from the Nigeria squad to face Colombia next week due to injury.

POLICE say they found $19 million in cash under the floorboards of a house in Cali, Colombia, on Saturday.

Pop diva Shakira is to take to play a charity concert in her hometown to build an arts school for 1,800 children forced to flee their homes by Colombia’s civil war.

A video released by Colombian guerrillas aired yesterday showing 12 kidnapped lawmakers pleading with their government to work with Venezuela’s leftist President Hugo Chavez to help obtain their release.

Just like J.Lo and Ben, the romance is over for dolls Barbie and Ken.

A former Colombia striker Albeiro Usuriaga has been shot dead by gunmen in a popular nightclub district in the western Colombian city of Cali.

Police have captured a top Colombian drug lord who is said to responsible for “huge volumes” of drugs entering the United States.

Suspected rebels rained mortar shells onto downtown Bogota and the presidential palace as hard-liner Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as president of Colombia.

A newspaper editor and columnist in a major town in Colombia’s coffee-growing region died yesterday, two days after being shot in the head as he walked to his office.

The opening quarter-final games at the Copa America failed to pull the crowds.

Two bombs exploded in Colombia’s third-largest city, the latest in a wave of blasts that have unnerved the nation.

A car bomb ripped through a car park behind a hotel and killed at least four people last night in Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city, fire officials said.

Gunmen have brutally assassinated a sports reporter for a local television station in Colombia’s third largest city.