TIGER WOODS and a whole host of other US Tour players were due at Shannon Airport this morning ahead of the JP McManus pro-am at Adare Manor Golf Hotel and Resort.

REAL MADRID could block Fernando Morientes’ switch to Liverpool if new coach Wanderley Luxemburgo decides he wants to keep the striker.

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NOEL SKEHAN doesn’t bear any grudges from inter-county hurling. But that’s not to say he’s not bitterly disappointed to have lost the 1978 final which earned Cork the last championship treble.

YOU can’t argue with success, but how the hell do you talk to failure? How do you face down over a century of submission, of abject failure?

FIGHTING talk was thick on the ground in O’Moore Park after this roller-coaster of a midland derby, as Offaly’s Ciaran McManus and manager Paul O’Kelly eschewed the cliches usually associated with post-game press gatherings.

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ALL-IRELAND club champions Birr bid for their fifth consecutive Offaly SHC title against first-time finalists Ballyskenach at St Brendan’s Park tomorrow.

MARTIN O’NEILL has described leading Celtic into a UEFA Cup final as a “wonderful moment” but confessed he would rather be pulling on the boots in Seville.

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SO, for the second time in two weeks we were treated to the highly unusual sight of Westmeath players, officials and management bounding across the Croke Park pitch in joyous abandon.

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WHEN the passionate din of an extraordinary afternoon finally subsided, Cork were still in with a chance of winning this year’s All-Ireland senior football title.

FOR a fourth successive season, Ireland goes into the final weekend of the Six Nations championship with tangible rewards on offer. This time the dream of capturing both the Triple Crown and championship are still alive.

KIERAN McGEENEY is likely to be available for the crucial second test against Australia in the Fosters International Rules Series in the MCG Grounds next Friday.

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