The eve of another cup final weekend and with it a sense of history about it for those of us steeped in Irish hoops, writes Kieran Shannon.

MARCI Reardon sits at her desk in the offices of Countrywide Financial in Oak Park, California. It’s Friday morning, Jul 13, 2007, and she’s fighting this niggling feeling something’s not right. Michael. For the longest time she’s tended to receive this odd sensation whenever Michael’s been hurt, some kind of connection.

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THE Kieran Lynch trained Elegant Rumble claimed his place in the semi-final of the Guinness Trophy when winning the run-off at Curraheen Park yesterday morning.

SNOW FAIRY came out of her first defeat of the season in the Yorkshire Oaks in good heart – but no decision has yet been taken on whether she runs in the Ladbrokes St Leger.

BONO, it seems, has finally found what he was looking for — an old cowboy hat, a sweatshirt, a pair of old trousers and earrings.

FORMER U2 stylist Lola Cashman yesterday lost her High Court appeal against a decision ordering her to return items, including Bono’s stetson, to the band.

U2 today won a High Court battle against their former stylist forcing her to hand over a cowboy hat and clothes she took from the band in the late 1980s.

FORMER U2 stylist Lola Cashman claimed that she was “frozen out” of her job as a freelance fashion stylist when letters were sent to British auction house Christies saying that items belonged to the band, and were not hers to sell.

U2 former stylist Lola Cashman yesterday claimed in the High Court Bono plonked his stetson hat on her head after the last gig in the US after she asked him for it.

BONO yesterday admitted he looked like singer Nana Mouskouri before Lola Cashman — the stylist at the centre of a High Court battle with the band — joined the U2 team.

Bono today admitted he looked like singer Nana Mouskouri before Lola Cashman - the stylist at the centre of a High Court battle with the band - joined the U2 team.

U2 FRONTMAN Bono told the High Court yesterday his former stylist was an eccentric who regularly wore band members’ clothing and argued with management.

Former U2 stylist Lola Cashman was facing a massive legal bill today after she was ordered to pay the costs of a court battle over ownership of the rock band’s memorabilia.

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BONO may have had a quarter of a million people eating out of his hand in Croker over the weekend but it was his own dietary habits that engrossed a courtroom yesterday.

A STROLL up Blarney Street will bring you to No 334 on one of Cork’s old addresses.

At least two people were killed when an earthquake rocked California’s central coast and shook the state from Los Angeles to San Francisco.