“Lionel Messi is in a right mood because you didn’t come to his gig.”

Fan's paper plane really gets crowd going as it flies all the way from the back of the stands to hit Peru player on head.

Ulster winger, Andrew Trimble, will miss the rest of this season following a reoccurrence of the toe injury that he sustained in October against Glasgow Warriors.

England 1 Spain 0

Three of Liverpool’s youth team have signed new contracts with the club.

Arsenal have agreed terms with Costa Rican side Deportivo Saprissa to sign teenage striker Joel Campbell, the London club have confirmed.

The Irish woman killed in a bomb blast in Uganda on Sunday has been named as Marie Smith.

Nigel Worthington has been given a two-year contract as Northern Ireland manager.

The Irish rugby squad is training today for the first time ahead of the upcoming Six Nations competition.

Claude Makelele has signed a one-year extension to his Chelsea contract to keep him at Stamford Bridge until 2009.

Russia 2 Wales 1

Wales coach John Toshack has agreed a two-year extension to his contract.

The Archbishop of Dublin, Cardinal Desmond Connell, has sent out a message of good wishes to students sitting Junior and Leaving Cert exams next week.

With Ireland progressing on target and England exiting the Rugby World Cup this past weekend, maybe it’s time for Ireland to unleash its secret weapon: the fourth shamrock to add to the three our brave rugby players already proudly wear on their jerseys?

For as long as Ireland’s World Cup journey continues we will be canvassing the opinion of our rugby columnists Donal Lenihan and Simon Lewis.

London: ITV, Britain’s biggest free-to-air commercial broadcaster, said it longer-term outlook was highly uncertain after the election, although the World Cup would boost ad revenue in the second quarter by 22%.

PRESTON North End centre-half Sean St Ledger could miss Ireland's World Cup qualifiers over the next fortnight after picking up a knee injury in Saturday's draw with Roy Keane's Ipswich Town.

Springbok lock Geo Cronje has been cleared of racism by a South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) disciplinary committee investigation.

Harlequins yesterday offered Dafydd James a chance to resurrect his career after they signed the Welsh international on a two-year contract.