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Woods prepared to risk injury to beat Nicklaus's record
17.06.2008 23:32
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TIGER WOODS is prepared to risk long-term injury in order to beat Jack Nicklaus's record of 18 major championship victories.
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Mortimer eager to get ball rolling
17.06.2008 23:32
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SIX WEEKS after the championship started, after 21 matches that have resulted in seven teams making a permanent exit and 12 teams dumped into the qualifiers, Mayo only now come into the football championship, the last and presumably by no means least.
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Kelly likes changing landscape
17.06.2008 23:32
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TWO MATCHES into the Munster hurling championship and already the times they are a-changin'. Waterford and Cork's exit means the final is already destined to be the first since 2001 with neither of those two teams involved, and Clare and Limerick go into Sunday's second semi-final looking to keep alive their chances of winning a first title in a decade.
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Fit-again Tierney named on Laois team
17.06.2008 23:31
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LAOIS FOOTBALL'S chief marksman Michael J Tierney has recovered from a hamstring tear to take his place at corner forward in Sunday's Leinster championship semi-final against Wexford in Croke Park.
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Munster faced with a very French campaign
17.06.2008 23:31
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RUGBY EUROPEAN CUP AS SOON as the Heineken European Cup draw was made yesterday in Dublin's Ballsbridge, the Munster CEO, Garret Fitzgerald, was canvassed for his immediate reaction and could not disguise his disappointment the European champions had yet again failed to land an Italian team at the pool stages after last year's heavyweight assembly of Llanelli, Wasps and Clermont Auvergne.
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Embattled England go on the defensive
17.06.2008 23:31
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NEWS ROUND-UPENGLAND HAVE attempted to lock down their saloon-door midfield for Saturday's second Test against New Zealand by installing Jamie Noon at inside centre and Toby Flood at outhalf.
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O'Brien's star named Henry takes centre stage
17.06.2008 23:31
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RACING ROYAL ASCOT REPORT AND PREVIEWTHE COMMERCIAL demands of making stallions for Coolmore Stud means Aidan O'Brien is never going to talk down one of his horses but the champion trainer was talking Henrythenavigator up to the stratosphere after the dual 2,000 Guineas winner completed a Group One hat-trick in yesterday's St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.
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Duke looks set to give O'Brien a first
17.06.2008 23:31
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DUKE OF MARMALADE can achieve what even the mighty Dylan Thomas couldn't manage last year and secure Aidan O'Brien a first ever victory in Royal Ascot's second-day feature, the Prince Of Wales's Stakes.
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O'Donoghue set to pounce
17.06.2008 23:31
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COLM O'DONOGHUE has already struck a number of times this season in black type races on Aidan O'Brien-trained horses and One Great Cat can continue that streak in tonight's Leopardstown feature.
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The Futures starts now for focused Niland
17.06.2008 23:30
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HOME AND AWAY CONOR NILANDJohnny Watterson on the Irish player who at the age of 26 has opted to give the full-time circuit his best shot and is aiming to hit the world's top 50
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Angling for a sport that offers relief from golf
17.06.2008 23:30
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SPORTING PASSIONS DAMIEN McGRANE Mark Rodden hears the China Open winner describe how his 1357 favourite way of unwinding from life on tour is to try his hand at fishing
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Where great football and bad blood go hand in hand
17.06.2008 23:30
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DERBY DAYS SOUTH AMERICA WORLD CUP QUALIFIERBrazil coach Dunga's job is on the line but the World Cup points will almost be incidental when they take on their arch rivals Argentina in Belo Horizonte, writes Damian Cullen
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Banner headlines as Clare come good
17.06.2008 23:30
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ONE FROM THE ARCHIVE CLARE WIN MUNSTER SHC FINAL 1995Seán Moran on the day Clare emerged from the provincial wilderness after 63 years with a 1-17 to 0-11 victory over Limerick
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