Eddie O’Sullivan is delighted South African referee Jonathan Kaplan will take charge of Ireland’s World Cup quarter-final against France on Sunday.

Costa Rica are in the final eight of the World Cup largely thanks to the incredible display from their goalkeeper in last night’s win over Greece.

World Cup-winning coach Graham Henry has described England as “the world champions at wasting talent” and as playing “a game based on fear”.

Rated by many as the world's best defender, Thuram is a cultured defender who moved to Juventus for €35million last summer to further his ambitions of winning silverware.

SERGIO GARCIA is the only member of the world’s top ten golfers committed to next month’s World Cup at Villamoura in Portugal’s Algarve.

Jonathan Walters will miss both of legs of the Republic of Ireland’s World Cup Playoff next month.

Happy McClean appreciation day!

Cork brothers Gary and Paul O'Donovan have won silver at the World Cup regatta in Poland.

Oops... What's he going to do now?

The Spanish striker is leaving Sevilla.

Bristol City have signed England goalkeeper David James on a one-year contract.

Carlo Ancelotti's future at AC Milan is the subject of further speculation in the media today.

Harlequins have completed the signing of Argentinian international forward Pablo Bouza.

UKRAINE striker Andriy Shevchenko has been sidelined with minor knee ligament damage just a month before the World Cup.

Irish supermarkets saw overall sales grow by 2.7% in the 12 weeks to July 14.

Peter McNamara rounds off the World Cup play-off inquest with Larry Ryan and Martin Claffey of the Irish Examiner and Danish journalist Morten Glinvad.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares was down this morning, dropping 17.22 points to 7861.97.

Perth and Melbourne will stage this year's International Rules Test Matches between Australia and Ireland.

Potential Republic of Ireland managerial target Roy Hodgson has tendered his resignation as Finland coach today.