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A campaigning British MP has called for the reinvestigation of the suspicious deaths more than 20 years ago of two whistleblowers who he believes had significant information relating to organised child abuse.

Liverpool 2 Arsenal 2

Stoke boss Mark Hughes hopes Bojan Krkic can follow the lead of fellow Spaniard and ex-Barcelona man Cesc Fabregas by developing into an established Premier League star.

Gordon Elliott famously burst on to the scene by training Grand National winner Silver Birch in 2007. Now he is Willie Mullins’ closest challenger.

Another year, another sack of books.

Pat McEnaney would like to see the use of two referees in hurling experimented with in the National League.

A powerful Dáil committee is seeking to delete the names of politicians accused of having Ansbacher-linked accounts from the official record and haul in a TD who named them for a private dressing-down.

WESTMEATH’S Leinster club SFC hoodoo was broken in dramatic circumstances by substitute Conor Cosgrove’s injury-time winning free in Tullamore yesterday.

FRUSTRATING, sloppy, tight and an uncomfortable finish — and those are the words of the winning captain.

STEWART DOWNING was accused of being just another football mercenary when he quit Aston Villa in the summer, held up as another painful example of how little loyalty remains in the modern game.

Q: The two of you had some serious clashes in the Seventies; some people would be surprised to see you together here tonight.

SO what was your first thought when you heard the news that David Villa had broken his leg in Yokahama? Poor chap, what an awful blow and, at first, it all looked so innocuous too?

The future of Europe is in the hands of one painfully private leader. What does the Geman chancellor really think? Roger Boyes reports

AT THE end of a heartwarming season there was, sadly, nothing but cold comfort for Shamrock Rovers in Tallaght on a night when, despite a comfortable 4-0 four-nil win for Spurs, both teams bowed out of the Europa League — and, of more significance for the home side, Michael O’Neill took his own final bow as manager of the Hoops.

VLADIMIR PUTIN’S ruling party suffered a big drop in support in a parliamentary election yesterday and was not certain even of holding on to a majority of seats, an exit poll showed.

RIVERS had been hushed and the countryside burnt brown by the three-week heatwave that showed no sign of easing its fiery grip.

MICHAEL Woodford, who was fired as chief executive of Japanese camera and medical equipment company Olympus after blowing the whistle on dubious spending, is now resigning from the board.

Fred and Beryl Overty are a Christmas institution in Killarney.