EUROPE’S biggest ever lottery winners have been revealed as a middle-aged couple from Scotland.

We now know the names of the lucky couple who scooped the €185m jackpot in Tuesday's EuroMillions draw.

CELTIC CUP glory continues to elude Ireland’s senior women, but coach Gene Muller nonetheless has plenty of positives to take from his side’s first tournament of 2011.

IRELAND’S senior women begin a hectic summer schedule in Scotland over the June Bank Holiday Weekend, as they bid to annex the Celtic Cup for the first time since 2006.

PADRAIG Harrington remains very much in contention for another big finish in the BMW Championship at Cog Hill, Chicago, and a chance at the $10 million jackpot on offer at the end of the US Tour’s FedEx Series in two weeks time.

POOR marshalling cost Gareth Maybin a possible share of the lead on day one of the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles in Scotland.

Scotland's Paul Lawrie, whose 10-year European Tour exemption for winning The Open ends this season, leads the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles after the opening day.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON has just over a fortnight before he defends his British Open title but the struggling triple Major winner declared there is no turning back from the changes he is introducing into his game.

AFTER Saturday night’s victory over Pakistan, it’s surely only a matter of time before Ireland’s cricketers are accommodated in Croke Park.

AUGUSTA National has its Golden Bell, Flowering Crabapple and Pink Dogwood but even the home of the US Masters cannot boast names of the sheer majesty of The Azured Winged Magpie, The Peregrine Falcon or The Purple Gallinule.

MEDICS yesterday urged a man who is the first person in the world to apparently cure himself of the HIV virus to come forward for more tests.

Medics today urged a patient to come forward for more tests after he apparently shook off the killer HIV virus.

IT was little more than 24 hours since he arrived home in triumph from the Westchester Classic in New York, but no one was surprised to see Pádraig Harrington or his Scottish coach Bob Torrance on The K Club practice range.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON is a rare bird among the world’s leading golfers.

After a day shortened to just one race due to the lack of breeze on Thursday, the fleet racing for the Cork 1720 European Championship on the Clyde off Largs found no shortage of wind yesterday as squally gusts to 30 knots taxed boat handling skills to a maximum.

Although only one race was sailed yesterday before the breeze disappeared at the Old Pulteney 1720 European Championships on the Clyde off Largs, it was just enough for the Dublin Bay boat, Wow, to take the overall lead.

Scotland’s Sam Torrance triumphed for the first time in the senior game when he won the Senior Masters at Wentworth Club after equalling the lowest round shot on the European Seniors Tour.

IT’S funny you know. You turn up at a major championship venue on the Monday, have a look at the course, play maybe nine or 18 holes, and come off shaking your head in bewilderment.

AND so we come to the third major of the year and, by and large, the one I like most.

LITTLE did he know it but Kilkenny's Gary Murphy was about to transform his golfing career on the greens of Loch Lomond 12 months ago.

Thomas Bjorn today thanked coach Bob Torrance for pointing him towards major glory – and thanked his lucky stars that he lives next to Torrance’s son.

The survivors of a coach crash in France which killed a teenage schoolgirl have returned to Scotland for emotional reunions with their families.