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Farewell to the people's champion

Departed legend Alex Higgins will forever be remembered as the ‘original people’s champion’, snooker supremo Barry Hearn told Sunday Life last night.

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Patrick lands perfect prize

Sunday, 25 July 2010

Patrick O’Toole can look forward to watching this season’s football action in style after picking up his 50” LG plasma TV as the winner of our Game of Your Life Fantasy Football competition, in association with Harvey Norman.

Reds win is for Eu, Mark

Sunday, 25 July 2010

Declan O’Hara has dedicated Cliftonville’s heroic European success to crocked star Mark Holland.

Let's drink to the pride of Europe again

Sunday, 25 July 2010

Well done Linfield and Portadown for reviving memories of battling European performances of old.

Down do business

Sunday, 25 July 2010

Sligo suffered a death by a thousand cuts at the hands of speedsters Down in last night's All-Ireland SFC Qualifiers at Kingspan/Breffni Park.

Got to Hand it to Tyrone

Sunday, 25 July 2010

Love them or loathe them, Tyrone continue to confound the doom merchants speculating on when their reign will end.

Mac Rors back

Sunday, 18 July 2010

Rory McIlroy bravely bounced back from his second round nightmare to keep his slim Open chances alive at wind-lashed St Andrews.

Nigel up for FIFA battle

Sunday, 18 July 2010

Fed-up Nigel Worthington has called on the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to show “common sense” this week and back the Irish FA in their ongoing eligibility case against the Football Association of Ireland and FIFA.

McEnaney's pure pledge

Sunday, 18 July 2010

Rival bosses Mickey Harte and Seamus McEnaney are determined that today’s Ulster football final between Tyrone and Monaghan will be a showcase for Gaelic football.

G-Mac feels a bit rough

Sunday, 18 July 2010

Graeme McDowell completed an Ulster nightmare on the dreaded Road Hole as a third round 76 put paid to his hopes of back-to-back major wins.

It's Dub-le and strife

Sunday, 18 July 2010

They may have had to wait 33 years to land a victory over Armagh in the All Ireland Football Championship but Dublin’s hard-earned three-point success at Croke Park yesterday evening hinted that there might even be better days ahead in the closing stages of this year’s competition.

Crash and Bang

Sunday, 18 July 2010

A week ago these columns suggested that Ireland would do well to win one of their two one-day internationals against a Bangladesh side rejuvenated by their first ever win against England in a limited overs match — or in any form of the game for that matter.

No Minister

Sunday, 11 July 2010

The hit Irish FA was last night bracing itself for an investigation by football’s world governing body into possible political interference at Windsor Avenue.

Wake up and smell the roses, Raymond

Sunday, 11 July 2010

When in a hole, stop digging. Keen gardener and all as he is, Raymond Kennedy was seriously found wanting in the sage department in the death throes of his Presidency.

Kennedy blames IFA board

Sunday, 11 July 2010

Outgoing Irish FA President Raymond Kennedy is privately seething he and his former Vice President David Martin have been made the scapegoats in Sport Northern Ireland’s hugely critical report into the sacking of former Chief Executive Howard Wells.

An efficient display!

Sunday, 11 July 2010

Portadown's victory over Skonto Riga on Thursday night came not only as a massive boost to the Shamrock Park club but to Irish League football in general.

Clarke's bent on success

Sunday, 11 July 2010

Armagh manager Paddy O’Rourke believes that Jamie Clarke can now prove his side’s not-so-secret superman against Fermanagh in today’s All Ireland Qualifier second round tie at Brewster Park, Enniskillen.

Irish must be Bang on

Sunday, 11 July 2010

Ireland will go into their two One Day Internationals against Bangladesh in Belfast this week in fine nick and it's just as well.

I quit

Sunday, 4 July 2010

Condemned Irish FA President Raymond Kennedy is on his way OUT after a day of high drama in Northern Ireland football. Chief Kennedy opted to fall before he was pushed at an emergency IFA meeting yesterday. He was flown back from the World Cup in South Africa at an estimated cost of £3,000 to answer damning findings in a Government ordered Sport NI inquiry into his role in the sacking of former Chief Executive Howard Wells. The £516,000 loss to football in settling Wells' unfair dismissal case led to the IFA being branded ‘not fit for purpose’ by the official report. President Kennedy and his No.2 David Martin were held ‘equally culpable' for the loss. The timing could not have been worse with the IFA banking on Government money to fund the £30million rebuilding of Windsor Park as a new national stadium. Real danger of the money being withheld unless changes were made at the top in the IFA led to the two top men being ‘persuaded' to fall on their swords yesterday. David Martin is expected to go immediately and President Kennedy after the World Cup to which he flies back tomorrow for the semi-finals and Final. For the full story, see this week's Sunday Life.

Open season for Maik

Sunday, 4 July 2010

As Northern Ireland’s reliable goalkeeper for over 10 years, Maik Taylor has made a habit of being in the right place at the right time.

Fatal tragedy hits Skerries

Sunday, 4 July 2010

Tragedy halted yesterday’s Skerries Road Races, north of Dublin, following a fatal accident which claimed the life of Myles Byrne from Dunshaughlin, near Ashbourne, Co Meath.

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