Munster legend Denis Leamy has been forced to retire.

Manchester City are believed to have made a £20m (€23m) bid for Aston Villa and England midfielder James Milner.

Sweden's Henrik Stenson today cruised to a wire-to-wire victory in the Nedbank Challenge at the Gary Player Country Club in Sun City.

BT Sport presenter Jake Humphrey revealed the news about the former Tottenham and England player, who now works as a TV pundit.

Hayley Turner is to join North American stars Chantal Sutherland and Emma-Jayne Wilson to form the first ever female team at the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup at Ascot on August 11.

Roger Federer has won the Tennis Masters Cup after a 6-2 6-3 6-2 victory over David Ferrer in Shanghai.

The FAI were making no comment yesterday on Sepp Blatter’s suggestion that the UK and Ireland could jointly host the 2030 World Cup.

Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy insisted the Roy Keane bombshell will not affect the rest of his squad’s preparation for the World Cup finals.

World Rugby plans to review the process which saw South Africa named preferred bidder only for France to be chosen to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

Republic of Ireland goalscorer Sean St Ledger admitted his side's frustration despite holding world champions Italy to a draw for the second time in World Cup Qualifying Group Eight.

Wayne Rooney returned to the Manchester United starting line-up for their Club World Cup final clash with LDU Quito.

ANDY ROBINSON’S time as head coach of the England rugby union will most likely end today although a Rugby Football Union (RFU) spokesman would last night not go beyond saying that a review of England’s November matches had started.

SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON declared his England players were showing no signs of pressure ahead of facing Brazil as he urged them to keep alive his lifelong ambition of winning the World Cup.

BEFORE John Gallagher took the final few steps of his journey from the streets of London into the inner sanctum of the All Blacks, one of the all-time greats had a word in his ear.

Opponents of FIFA president Sepp Blatter scored a potentially significant victory, last night, when they won their fight to set up a special internal committee to investigate the finances of football’s world governing body.

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