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Between Mr Sepp ‘Steering The Ship’ Blatter (see elsewhere on this page), Mr Patrick ‘Golf Balls’ Neary (see the finance/comedy section) and Mr REDACTED REDACTED’REDACTED (see various legal eagles), it hasn’t been a great few days for prominent personages.

John Giles was another prominent football man attending the launch of the new Sports Medicine Programme at the Beacon Hospital in Dublin, but it was the health of football as a whole that was on the veteran’s mind when he considered how Messi’s magic in the Copa del Rey final had helped redeem a toxic week for the sport.

Another year, another Irish Open and the debates continue as to the best venue and time of year to play one of the most popular tournaments on the European Tour.

Soren Kjeldsen overcame a nervy sudden-death play-off and some insecurity about his future on the European Tour to win the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open. 

Britain said Europe should consider boycotting future World Cups if Sepp Blatter doesn’t quit as head of soccer’s governing body over a corruption scandal, while Swiss authorities denied they would soon question the newly re-elected Fifa president.

In the end, joy and elation for a long-serving second row stalwart, but not the one we had hoped for. 

Ireland coach Nigel Carolan admits the loss of experienced out-half Ross Byrne is a huge blow ahead of their World Rugby U20 Championship campaign but he is confident they have the strength in the squad to cope.

Paul O’Connell may be keeping quiet on his future but Anthony Foley knows it will not be with Munster and the head coach is making plans to bring in an overseas replacement for the departing Ireland captain.

Fifa boss Blatter presents himself as a champion of developing nations to deflect from shady, most likely criminal dealings, writes Ian Buruma.

ANY society as familiar with the choreography around the grand sacraments of Catholicism as this one is will easily understand the power of symbolism. 

IN THIS industry, when something comes back from the dead it’s usually a zombie or a Skyrim addiction. That wasn’t the case at E3, where long-deceased games rose from the grave looking fresher than a stiff breeze on the Cliffs of Moher.

We can’t get enough of it, but, once upon a time, ice cream was only for the rich, learned Robert Hume when he looked into the history of the frozen treat

David Harte says the Olympic qualifying process for men’s hockey gives “perceived lower ranked teams” more of an opportunity of making it to Rio De Janeiro.

Rio Ferdinand has branded the valuations placed on young English players “a joke”.

Georgia 12 Emerging Ireland 45: Billy Holland had to discard his crutches to lift the trophy at Avchala Stadium after succumbing to a captain’s curse in Tbilisi.

Whether it did appear as if players were putting on greens of broccoli (as Henrik Stenson suggested), or cauliflower (as Rory McIlroy amended), it shouldn’t have been lost on the gathered media that it was two Europeans with the quickest and driest wit regarding the unfortunate playing conditions at Chambers Bay in the 115th US Open.

Having watched the opening two games from a distance, Irish coach Joe Schmidt is due in Georgia today to run the rule over remaining candidates for Ireland’s World Cup campaign.

Postponed can get off the mark for the season by taking this afternoon’s Harwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot for Luca Cumani and jockey Adam Kirby.

Masters champion Jordan Spieth made his move towards back-to-back major victories as he claimed a share of the early second-round US Open clubhouse lead at Chambers Bay last night.