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Harrington finishes strongly in Memphis
08.06.2008 23:33
ireland.com
USPGA TOUR: Pádraig Harrington shared fourth place on 277 as Australia's Robert Allenby set the clubhouse target on four-under-par 276 after a final round of 65 in the Stanford St Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Early birdies catch medal as McCloy fires course record
08.06.2008 23:33
ireland.com
IRISH CLOSE CHAMPIONSHIP: DUBLIN-BASED Alex McCloy from Ballymena produced a stunning dawn patrol at Belvoir Park yesterday to fire a course-record 65 and walk away with the leading qualifier's silver medal in the Golfsure Irish Close Championship after the 36-hole weekend test before matchplay begins this morning.
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Bolger scales new heights his way
08.06.2008 23:32
ireland.com
EPSOM DERBY: JIM BOLGER is famously devout so the proverb about sowing what you reap might have sprung to mind as New Approach returned to a comparatively muted reception after winning Saturday's Epsom Derby. Just a few catcalls reportedly interrupted the normally exultant prize-giving ceremony but while etiquette was followed no one pretended to ignore the controversy smouldering underneath the surface: which is some kind of pity because the great old race had just seen some kind of performance.
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Zarkava shows she's out of top drawer with French Oaks win
08.06.2008 23:32
ireland.com
ZARKAVA APPEARS likely to challenge all-comers in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe later in the year after furthering her reputation as the outstanding filly of her generation in the Prix de Diane (French Oaks).
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Cooney .55 of a second short of Beijing
08.06.2008 23:32
ireland.com
SWIMMING: AISHLING COONEY narrowly missed out on a place in the Beijing Olympics when she won the gold medal in the women's 100 metres backstroke on the final day of the Dutch National Championships in Eindhoven.
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Botha's 57 helps the cause
08.06.2008 23:32
ireland.com
CRICKET: NORTH COUNTY continued their unbeaten start to the season yesterday with a comfortable 106-run victory over Fingal rivals The Hills in their opening encounter in Section A of the Whitney Moore League at Balrothery.
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England waste no time
08.06.2008 23:32
ireland.com
CRICKET/SECOND TEST: RYAN SIDEBOTTOM provided the finishing touches as England wrapped up a quickfire innings victory over New Zealand at Trent Bridge.
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Solo-running Dunphy gives this armchair fan itchy fingers
08.06.2008 23:32
ireland.com
TV VIEW: THE COMPOSITION of the majority of teams suggested a lack of innovation, the novel having been sacrificed on the altar of familiarity. The conservative formations guaranteed a certain style, one to which viewers have become accustomed and thereby predetermining which buttons on the remote control they'll favour over the next month of the European Soccer Championships.
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Lovely hurling as my pal Chris lifts the cup
08.06.2008 23:32
ireland.com
LOCKER ROOM: When the Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup last week I was almost as as happy as if the Dubs had won the Liam MacCarthy, writes Tom Humphries
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Nadal reigns supreme in Paris at Roland Garros
08.06.2008 23:32
ireland.com
TENNIS/FRENCH OPEN: SOME FIRMLY held beliefs were shattered yesterday when the closest player to a deity in modern tennis was cruelly exposed at Roland Garros as all too humanly frail and mortal. In the most one-sided French Open final 8cb since 1977 when Guillermo Villas beat Brian Gottfried 6-0, 6-3, 6-0, a disbelieving world number one, Roger Federer, could take only four games from the imperious Rafael Nadal, who won his fourth successive title to equal the record run of Bjorn Borg from 1978 to 1981.
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Ivanovic stays strong all the way
08.06.2008 23:32
ireland.com
TENNIS: FROM A trembling teenager who won just three games in last year's Roland Garros final against Justin Henin, the remodelled Ana Ivanovic confirmed why she will be installed as the world number one today. The player who practised her tennis in a drained swimming pool during NATO's 1999 bombing of Belgrade admitted it was difficult to comprehend she is now the French Open champion.
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Hamilton mishap clears way for Kubica in Montreal
08.06.2008 23:32
ireland.com
MOTOR SPORT/CANADIAN GRAND PRIX: POLAND'S ROBERT Kubica claimed his first Formula One victory and the drivers' title lead in Canada yesterday thanks in no small part to a momentary lapse of reason that saw race favourite Lewis Hamilton crash out of the race and into Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen - in the pitlane.
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Energy ministers discuss 'shocking' rise in oil prices
08.06.2008 23:31
ireland.com
ENERGY MINISTERS of advanced nations have expressed "serious concerns" about soaring oil prices and urged producers to increase production through greater investment and provide more information on oil supply.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Building activity hits new low
08.06.2008 23:31
ireland.com
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY declined to a record low last month, as employers in the industry continued to lay off workers after new business dried up.
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