There’s a lot of love out there for Rory McIlroy but while everyone from Russell Henley to Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller were constructive and kind about the Irishman’s final-round collapse at the Honda Classic, McIlroy started the healing process straight away by taking ownership of his mistakes.

On the night of her election as Labour leader on July 4 last year, Joan Burton told party members — bruised as they were by the local election results — that it was time now to govern with the head and the heart.

With the leaders struggling to cope with the blustery wind and rain at the Wales Open the lead was held by little-known Italian Alessandro Tadini today.

For years the hardest place in the world to tip a winner was Cheltenham. For years the hardest place in the world to back a winner was Cheltenham.

When the Lusitania first went into service in September 1907 it was the biggest ocean liner ever built. It sailed from Liverpool to New York and back with a stop at Queenstown (now Cobh) on each voyage.

If Giant’s Causeway was the iron horse of flat racing then it is no exaggeration to describe Un De Sceaux as the National Hunt equivalent.

IT MAY have come a little later than expected butwhen Rory McIlroy’s maiden major victory came in the US Open at Congressional Country Club last night it was all the sweeter for the deep disappointment of 10 weeks ago.

Rory McIlroy will begin Friday's PGA Championship second round five shots off the pace but satisfied to have come through a testing examination of the left ankle he injured just five weeks ago.

Rory McIlroy will begin Friday’s PGA Championship second round five shots off the pace but satisfied to have come through a testing examination of the left ankle he injured just five weeks ago.

ENGLISH invader Lilbourne Lad out battled the rather ironically named Tough As Nails in the Group 2 Dubai Duty Free Railway Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

WELL, the moment of truth has finally arrived and at Down Royal today we will find out if Kauto Star is back to his best.

Welshman Jamie Donaldson, winless in 244 European Tour starts, takes a one-stroke lead over England’s Anthony Wall, winless in his last 364, into the final round of the Irish Open at Royal Portrush tomorrow.