ARSENAL goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has been fined £10,000 by the Football Association following an incident with Southampton’s Kevin Phillips in December.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has given UEFA the green light to take disciplinary action against Michael Essien for the Chelsea midfielder’s shocking foul on Liverpool’s Dietmar Hamann.

IN the fall-out from the Laffoy Commission debacle, Minister for Education Noel Dempsey has come up with what can only be described as an inspiration on how to cut down on costs, numbers and delays.

DARREN CLARKE, Justin Leonard, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh were just some of those who brought the so called “unplayable” Whistling Straits course to its knees in yesterday’s first round of the US PGA Championship.

GARDAÍ in an accident blackspot area will set up hundreds of checkpoints over the coming month in an effort to cut fatalities.

SAN FRANCISCO and Pittsburgh pulled off thrilling come-from-behind victories on Sunday night to advance in the National Football League playoffs.

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PARENTS will be well aware of this scenario: You give a child some pocket money to last a week and by Wednesday it’s all gone on sweets and nothing to show for it.

JEREMY PHIPPS resigned from his position as director of security at the Jockey Club last night, conceding in a letter to senior steward Christopher Spence that his role had become ‘‘untenable’’ and that he had caused ‘‘embarrassment, for which I apologise most sincerely’’.

THE annual May Day demonstrations got off to a violent start overnight when police clashed with protestors in Berlin and the northern city of Hamburg.

THEY may be out of the permanent tsb Cork County SHC, losing 2-16 to 3-8, but new kids on the block, Delanys, came of age at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday, giving champions Blackrock a searching test.

UNPACK the crampons, Longford have picked their way to the sort of altitude that gives men nose-bleeds.

Waterford 4-13, Limerick 4-13

Charlie Mulqueen discovers Whistling Straits is not unlike many of Ireland's finest courses.

TÁNAISTE Mary Harney denied yesterday that Government ministers were aware of a VAT loophole which builders used to evade paying up to 1 billion in tax.

I REFER to Caroline O’Doherty’s feature (Whistle-blowers in the workplace - keep your head down and say nothing, Irish Examiner, October 25).

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A RECENT Prime Time survey on the Church threw up an interesting but largely unreported statistic: compared to 90% of people who saw the role of doctors as very important, only 22% of people gave this rating to politicians, and journalists got a mere 20%.

A DETECTIVE sergeant threatened his garda interviewers that he had notes and tapes of his conversations with senior officers in Donegal, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

SOMETIMES it’s a pity that our Monsieur Le Prof is such a pragmatist. After a vintage Dennis Bergkamp performance on Saturday, of the scintillating sort that some of the more sceptical amongst us thought they’d long since seen the last, personally, in Wenger’s place I would have stuck Dennis in a cab straight from St. Andrews and made certain his driver didn’t spare the horses until he’d reached the San Siro.