World / All Themes
Derry have the firing power
20.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
ULSTER SFC SEMI-FINAL Fermanagh v Derry, Today, 6pm Healy Park, Omagh Live on RTÉ 2 & BBC 2 FOR ALL the chatter about the decent showing by Division Three clubs in the championship and Fermanagh gaining promotion from this group, tonight provides an entirely different proposition.
Ireland
Sports
Laois have fire-power to see off on-form challengers
20.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
LEINSTER SFC SEMI-FINALLaois v Wexford Tomorrow, 2pm Croke Park, Dublin Live on TV3 AN IMMEDIATE contrast is apparent at this juncture - Wexford punished Meath for failing to put them away in the quarter-final, while Laois barely survived a similar late charge from Wicklow.
Ireland
Sports
Mayo have potential to find answers
20.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
CONNACHT SFC SEMI-FINALSligo v Mayo Tomorrow, 3.30pm McHale Park, CastlebarA STRANGE day beckons around Castlebar. Mayo come out fielding a promising team but one that looks somehow diminished in the absence of two of the most colourful and remarkable football characters of recent times, Ciarán McDonald and David Brady.
Ireland
Sports
Double delight as Manning breaks his duck in style
20.06.2008 23:20
ireland.com
ROYAL ASCOT: WITH BALLYDOYLE failing to fire yesterday, the Jim Bolger-Kevin Manning team slipped seamlessly into the Royal Ascot breach to record a 9 to 1 double highlighted by Lush Lashes landing the Group One Coronation Stakes.
Ireland
Sports
Golden chance for Marchand
20.06.2008 23:20
ireland.com
RACING: REMARKABLE WEEK of Irish success at Royal Ascot could wind up today with a distinctly Gallic flourish as Marchand d'Or attempts to secure Group One glory in the Golden Jubilee Stakes.
Ireland
Sports
King of clay ready to put Federer out to grass
20.06.2008 23:20
ireland.com
Johnny Watterson on how Rafael Nadal has refined his grass game to the point where the legendary Bjorn Borg reckons he will usurp Roger Federer
Ireland
Sports
It's game, set, match 'Ovics' and 'Ovas' in seedings game
20.06.2008 23:20
ireland.com
John Watterson reports on how Serbians and Russians have come to dominate the top end of the women's draw at Wimbledon
Ireland
Sports
Hamilton's grid plans are limited
20.06.2008 23:20
ireland.com
FORMULA ONE FRENCH GRAND PRIX: LEWIS HAMILTON will be privately hoping that the most extreme local weather forecast - predicting scattered but very intense thunder storms for the Magny Cours region tomorrow - will prove correct and therefore deal him a possible wild card to play to his own advantage in the French Grand Prix.
Ireland
Sports
O'Brien injury a huge blow to Ireland's hopes
20.06.2008 23:20
ireland.com
CRICKET WEEKEND PREVIEW: IRELAND HAVE been dealt a huge blow with the news that all-rounder Kevin O'Brien has been ruled out for at least three weeks after suffering a hamstring tear playing for Middlesex seconds.
Ireland
Sports
Radcliffe facing defeat in this race against clock
20.06.2008 23:20
ireland.com
ATHLETICS: For all her courage and determination, Paul Radcliffe looks increasingly likely to end a fabulous career without an Olympic medal
Ireland
Sports
Galvin affair goes where no man has gone before
20.06.2008 23:20
ireland.com
Sideline Cut: THE TROUBLE for Paul Galvin certainly began when he took momentary leave of his senses last Sunday but it was pitched into another dimension on the television that night.
Ireland
Sports
Sports Digest
20.06.2008 23:20
ireland.com
New tour code for EnglandRUGBY: England rugby players were banned yesterday from taking women back to their h e3 otel rooms as four players vigorously denied allegations of a serious sexual assault.
Ireland
Sports
Babcock fund chief rules out disposal of Eircom
20.06.2008 23:19
ireland.com
INVESTMENT FUND Babcock Brown Capital (BCM) has said it would be happy to retain ownership of Eircom for at least five years, dismissing claims that the loss of investor confidence in its investment bank parent will hasten its disposal of the Irish telco.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Permanent TSB tightens rules for first-time buyers
20.06.2008 23:19
ireland.com
FIRST-TIME BUYERS will have to put up an extra €5,570 in cash on a deposit for the average house after the State's largest mortgage lender Permanent TSB introduced more restrictions on new lending.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Builders in warning against cuts to national projects
20.06.2008 23:19
ireland.com
BUILDERS WARNED yesterday that the Government must stick to its commitments under the €184 billion National Development Plan (NDP).
Ireland
Economics & Finance
English