LABOUR’S Brendan Howlin yesterday expressed shock at reports gardaí sought access to his phone records after he highlighted corruption claims in the force.

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

EVERYTHING comes in threes, even body blows, as Kerry footballers found to their chagrin yesterday.

AMERICAN Shawn Crawford won the men’s 200 metres gold medal amid astonishingly hostile scenes in the Olympic Stadium as the Greek public vented their spleen against the Games organisers.

IN the unequal world of old-boys’ sport, looks can’t curry favour.

EDDIE GRAY is a Leeds legend. And perhaps there is no-one better qualified to speak on the club’s current plight than the Scot, whose heart and soul virtually reside in Elland Road.

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THE controversy following the Munster Club Senior Football League final, in which Douglas are adamant they defeated Austin Stacks by a point only to be told by Waterford referee Sean Michael Kelly the game was a draw, rages on.

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DEJECTED Clare manager Anthony Daly heaped praise on Cork, declaring they are not All-Ireland champions for nothing and are the best team in the country so far this season.

CHELSEA star Didier Drogba fired the Ivory Coast into the African Nations Cup final as they overcame Nigeria 1-0 in Alexandria yesterday.

HEARTS’ European hopes were hanging by a thread after losing 2-0 to Sparta Prague in their UEFA Cup first round, first-leg tie at Murrayfield.

LEGENDARY Cork football manager Billy Morgan greeted the final whistle of yesterday’s Munster Final with mixed emotions.

A teenager who caused a ruckus at a hospital was given an option of doing community service instead of going to jail. But declaring “f*** that”, he said he would not do community work.

The Ryder Cup will return to Ireland in 2026 bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors an extra €100m economic boost to the country.

Once Cork soccer’s pin-up boy, Carl Davenport will tomorrow night compete for the affections of a Cumbrian sheepdog trainer on primetime BBC2.

Alan Browne was left “gutted” after the Republic of Ireland’s hopes of clinching automatic qualification for the Euro 2020 finals slipped away in agonising style.