Nemo Rangers had their expected victory over Fethard in today's Munster club senior football finall in Fermoy.

An Alan Shearer penalty was enough to lift Newcastle into third place after a 1-0 win over Derby at St James' Park.

A US crime novelist is claiming she has solved the mystery of Jack the Ripper and named him as an artist who painted images of a murdered prostitute.

Players from both Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have spoken out against the fans who attacked the Arsenal team bus before and after Saturday’s FA Barclaycard Premiership clash at White Hart Lane.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s troubled visit to the Middle East made a ‘‘very very significant’’ contribution to reviving the stalled peace process, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw insisted today.

Concorde returns to passenger service tomorrow with both British Airways and Air France operating flights to New York.

The North’s new police service has struck a deal with the loyalist protestors outside the Catholic Holy Cross school in Belfast that should see the protest scaled down in the coming days.

Loyalist residents in north Belfast today vowed to defuse tensions in their area by ensuring protests against Catholic schoolchildren and their parents pass off peacefully.

Loyalists in north Belfast are considering moves to tone down their picket this week of Catholic schoolchildren and their parents, a source close to the protest claimed tonight.

Glasgow 47 Cardiff 32

Two-goal hero Michael Owen praised his team-mate John Arne Riise after the Norwegian’s rocket shot capped Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Manchester United at Anfield.

Being booked for time-wasting in the first half of your Eircom League debut would be a puzzling introduction to any new football situation but Bray Wanderers goalkeeper Matt Gregg was not going to let that spoil his enjoyment.

Aberdeen 2 Celtic 0

Sunderland 1 Everton 0

Australia humiliates Irish schoolboys winning by 41 points at Temple Hill in Cork.

Arsenal's Thierry Henry will get a three-game ban and a fine of two weeks' wages after trying to confront Graham Poll after the Newcastle game.

The final whistle has gone in Sydney as Australia claim the series.

Galway have won their quarter-final clash against Derry in the Bank of Ireland hurling championship.

Paul McGinley maintained his two-stroke lead before play in the Volvo Masters was halted again by high winds in Jerez this morning.

Tony Blair has declared that his determination to see through the war against terrorism is as strong now as it was on September 11.