A second All-Ireland senior club medal, Joe Canning could not hide his delight as Portumna beat Birr by 3-19 to 3-09 in yesterday afternoon's hurling decider at Croke Park.

Wall Street ended a temperamental session widely mixed today after investors grappled with JPMorgan Chase & Co’s government-backed buy-out of stricken investment bank Bear Stearns.

Celtic manager Gordon Strachan believes there is one simple reason why the Old Firm can never be counted out in any game in Scotland – the financial advantage they have over all the other clubs.

Rangers 1 Dundee Utd 1 (extra-time being played)

About 3,000 Latvians marched through the capital Riga today under heavy police protection to honour countrymen who fought in a German combat unit during World War II.

Munster 42 Ulster 6

Middlesbrough 1 Derby 0

Aston Villa 0 Sunderland 1

Newcastle 2 Fulham 0

Tottenham 4 Chelsea 4

Man Utd 2 Bolton 0

Rangers 1 Partick 1

Sir Alex Ferguson admitted that referee Andy D'Urso made a mistake over Leicester's missed penalty.

Hundreds of fans waited through the night to greet Ireland’s World Cup heroes as they landed just before dawn at Dublin Airport following a seven-hour fight from their play-off triumph in Tehran.

Arsene Wenger attempted to cool the situation after Thierry Henry had been involved in a slanging match with Panathinaikos players after Arsenal lost 1-0 in Athens.

The Lions cruised to a comfortable win against New South Wales Country today without remotely hitting top gear.

The whistle goes and the Lions are victorious.

A painting by Jack Butler Yeats fetched more than stg£1.1m at an auction in London today.

Loyalists today began another week of protests outside the Holy Cross school in north Belfast amid warnings that pupils could be damaged permanently.

Catholic children enduring daily protests at their Belfast school could be permanently damaged, a priest at the centre of the dispute has warned.