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Carl Frampton celebrates successful defence of Commonwealth belt against Kris Hughes

Carl Frampton to put on big talent show

Even as he sat watching ‘The Voice’, Carl Frampton couldn’t quite switch off from what is going to be by far the biggest test of his career — on a global stage.

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Irish move to boost bowling attack

Saturday, 26 May 2012

Ireland A have made five changes, four of them enforced, for next week’s three-day game against Gloucestershire II, which will be played in Somerset.
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Chris Dougherty wants a debut win over Waringstown

Dougherty aiming to finally hit Town

Saturday, 26 May 2012

Chris Dougherty is looking for his first win over Waringstown tomorrow when CIYMS meet the Villagers in the match of the season so far in the Ulster Bank Premier League.
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Novak Djokovic bids for history at French Open

Friday, 25 May 2012

Novak Djokovic will stand on the brink of history when the French Open begins on Sunday. It is 43 years since one man held all four Grand Slam titles – Rod Laver won a pure Grand Slam in 1969, claiming the four majors in the same year – and Djokovic, the champion of Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open, is now just one win away from that goal.
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Cricket: Ireland look hot and flustered under Kent sun

Friday, 25 May 2012

A marathon day of 119 overs under a hot sun in Maidstone did Ireland ‘A’ few favours and Kent 2nd XI are now big favourites to complete victory today.
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Ireland left floundering after batting collapse

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Ireland A face a long three days in Maidstone after their last eight wickets tumbled inside 90 minutes for just 58 runs on the first day of their game against the Kent 2nd XI.
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Melanie Nocher during her excellent 200m backstroke performance, but her Olympic dream is still to be grasped

Nocher’s Olympic goal is in view

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Melanie Nocher will step onto the blocks at the European long course championships tonight in Hungary knowing it is do or die in her bid to make it to London 2012.
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Phil Eaglestone will play for Ireland A

Cricket: Ireland forced to make changes

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Ireland ‘A’ have had to make two late changes to their squad for this week’s game against Kent 2nd XI, starting in Maidstone today.
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On fire: Jeremy Bray has been in fine form for CIYMS

David Simpson eyes first win for Lisburn

Saturday, 19 May 2012

As Lisburn captain David Simpson said after his side’s latest defeat on Wednesday night: “Whoever compiled the fixture list had it in for us.”
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Bready out to deliver as the heat rises in title battle

Saturday, 19 May 2012

The North West season gathers pace this weekend with the first league double-header, and every Senior One team, bar Creevedonnell (who do not play at home on Sundays) and Limavady, in back-to-back action.
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Winner: Dermott Lennon won the Rydale Clothing International Spectacular event

Balmoral Show: Dermott Lennon leaps to title in a thrilling jump-off

Saturday, 19 May 2012

Constant rain didn't deter the hardy showjumpers at Balmoral Show as the second day of international competition provided spectators with celebrations when former world champion and senior Nations Cup rider Dermott Lennon won the main class.
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Good start: Aileen Morrison will get Lisburn event under way

Youngsters steeled for challenge

Friday, 18 May 2012

Johnny Davis knows all about chasing the Olympic dream.
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Jump to it: Top showjumping action from the opening day of the Balmoral Show at the King's Hall in south Belfast

Knight shines at super show

Friday, 18 May 2012

Top racehorse trainer Henrietta Knight was just one of the stars at Balmoral Show, putting a selection of young horses through their paces with friend Ann Hooley.
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University challenge: the Ramada Plaza Belfast University Boat Race, which takes place on Saturday, June 2, has been launched amid much fanfare on the River Lagan

Cambridge to cause splash on the Lagan

Thursday, 17 May 2012

Just before Ulster rowers Alan Campbell and brothers Richard and Peter Chambers go for gold at the Olympics, Belfast will stage an event that will set the tone for what’s to come at London 2012.
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Golden boy: Jonathan Edwards, who won Olympic gold at the Sydney Games in 2000, helps launch Volunteers week

Volunteers to carry celebration torch

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Volunteers’ Week celebrations are set to be hot this year with the annual event coinciding with the Olympic Torch Relay.
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Strongman: Brian Coombes with his award won at the British Benchpress Championships in Birmingham last week

Brian Coombes is worth weight in gold

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Templepatrick powerlifter Brian Coombes took a day off from saving lives in his full time job as a firefighter at Whitla Fire Station in Belfast to compete in the prestigious British Benchpress Championships — and blazed his way to top spot.
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In Pictures: 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour Beijing Grand Slam

Saturday, 12 May 2012

Beach volleyball has returned to Beijing for the first time since the 2008 Olympics as teams compete in the FIVB Swatch World Tour.
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Cricket: McCallan in mood for Cup heroics

Saturday, 12 May 2012

Waringstown begin their defence of the Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup tomorrow with one of the most attractive games of the first round, against Strabane at The Lawn, and still unbeaten.
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Cricket: Eastwood handed chance to earn an Irish recall

Saturday, 12 May 2012

National coach Phil Simmons has rung the changes for Ireland A’s second game of the season — and their first against a county 2nd XI.
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Cricket: Ulster sides eyeing bragging rights

Saturday, 12 May 2012

The busiest day of the cricket season will put Ulster clubs to the test against their peers in Leinster and Munster and, for the first time, the all-Ireland competition has been extended to second tier teams.
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Verdasco leaves Nadal feeling blue

Friday, 11 May 2012

Any possibility that Rafael Nadal might eventually become a convert to blue clay was dashed at the Madrid Masters last night as the world No 2 suffered a remarkable defeat to his fellow Spaniard, Fernando Verdasco.
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Joe Kernan: We must use stars’ skills to build future

From now until the third Sunday in September county players in both gaelic football and hurling will be very much in the public eye.

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Billy on the Box: DD’s big pair puts on blue show in Bavaria

What an epic battle the Champions League Final turned out to be. A clash between an organisation with a long and distinguished history, respected by friend and foe alike up against a relative newcomer, the plaything of a foreign oligarch, who is universally viewed with raised eyebrows.

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Gary Neville could be key to Wayne Rooney's form at Euros

You might have thought that ruling yourself out of the first two games of football's second most important international tournament with a shocking flash of irresponsibility was quite enough to focus the mind of the nation's most gifted player.

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Di Matteo sure to get a chance at Chelsea

What must a football manager do to retain his job? Winning two trophies in one season, including the biggest one of all, would on the face of it, make such a question ridiculous.

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Same old drivel from Spillane and friends

At the fag-end of his first contribution to the 2012 Championship season last Sunday, Pat Spillane got down to business. His main hope for the tournament ahead, he said, was that managers would throw off the shackles and play like Crossmaglen Rangers. Instantly, he killed the optimism in us all.

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Tyrone Howe: Future still bright for Ulster men

The highlight of the Heineken Cup final came several minutes from the end of the game.

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If Chelsea can be the kings of Europe, so can England

One of the consequences of the late finish in Munich and the chaotic transport arrangements after the Champions League final was to force the ‘great and the good’ of the English football media to gather on a station platform near the Arena for a promised train to the city centre that, ultimately, never arrived.

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Ulster left to count cost of their mistakes

There will seem few crumbs of comfort left for Ulster’s shattered rugby men this morning. To lose any final is heart wrenching but to lose it by a margin of five tries to one, represents something close to humiliation.

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