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FORMER GAA president Christy Cooney has paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and said her historic visit to Croke Park in 2011 was 'probably a day we never saw coming'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CONSERVATIVE party leadership frontrunner Liz Truss has cheered up the UK's small band of frackers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GSK shares sank like a stone amid growing concerns over a possible lawsuit relating to a heartburn and stomach ulcer treatment called Zantac. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A CHILL ran through the boardrooms of Britain's oil and gas companies as the Government hinted at plans to tighten its squeeze on their profits. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A CHILL ran through the boardrooms of Britain's oil and gas companies as the Government hinted at plans to tighten its squeeze on their profits. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FEARS of a recession have threatened to slow the recovery of the world's biggest provider of flexible office space. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FEARS of a recession have threatened to slow the recovery of the world's biggest provider of flexible office space. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE boom times for recruitment firms are coming to an end as employers start to worry about the risk of recession. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE boom times for recruitment firms are coming to an end as employers start to worry about the risk of recession. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SHARES in Pendragon jumped after the car dealer revealed it approved a takeover offer but talks ended as a major shareholder didn't engage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

INVESTORS binned shares in Mondi, the packaging and paper giant, after it became the latest heavyweight company to gripe about significant increases in input costs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

INVESTORS binned shares in Mondi, the packaging and paper giant, after it became the latest heavyweight company to gripe about significant increases in input costs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

INVESTORS raised the roof in response to Taylor Wimpey's half-year results after the builder said full-year results would be towards the top end of market expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT was, to use a football cliche, a day of two halves for shares, with yesterday morning's gains evaporating in the afternoon session. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT was, to use a football cliche, a day of two halves for shares, with yesterday morning's gains evaporating in the afternoon session. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WILD GEESE TROPHY GALWAY 4-23 3-26 KILKENNY [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WITH the thirdplaced Ospreys arriving at an RDS shorn of its Six Nations players tonight, it is just as well Leinster can introduce 214 Test caps worth of experience into their starting XV. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DUBLIN were last night warned that indiscipline is in danger of becoming a major problem for the reigning All-Ireland champions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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LEINSTER coach Joe Schmidt spoke yesterday of his certainty that Brian O'Driscoll will make a full recovery from last week's shoulder surgery after watching his side make light of the Ireland captain's absence to demolish Glasgow. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ONE of the defining match-ups in Leinster's Heineken Cup showdown against Glasgow Warriors will be the biggest battle on the pitch, in every sense. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jonny steps up to the mark as the Blues get used to life without Brian 16 MONTPELLIER 16 LEINSTER ByJohn Harrington HEINEKEN CUP POOL 3 ? STADE DE LA MOSSON THE AIR was shredded by the high-pitched screaming and whistling of thousands of French men, women and children as Johnny Sexton addressed the penalty kick. He was standing hard on the right touch-line and eyeing the narrowest of targets as the last few seconds of normal team bled away. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

16 MONTPELLIER 16 LEINSTER ByJohn Harrington HEINEKEN CUP POOL 3 ? STADE DE LA MOSSON THE AIR was shredded by the high-pitched screaming and whistling of thousands of French men, women and children as Johnny Sexton addressed the penalty kick. He was standing hard on the right touch-line and eyeing the narrowest of targets as the last few seconds of normal team bled away. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wexford and Galway have upped the stakes in camogie, explains JOHN HARRINGTON [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE popular notion that the Kilkenny hurling team don't worry about the opposition and simply play their own game and let their opponents worry about them instead is a false one. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IF YOU'RE feeling confused or perhaps a little disgusted with yourself, then worry not, because even though you're a culchie it's okay to like the Dublin footballers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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TALKING POINT Many wrote the great 'Dwyer' off, but JOHN HARRINGTON says do so only at your peril BY now everyone should know better than to underestimate the 'Micko Effect', but it would appear not. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Ulster sides struggle against southerners in qualifiers, says JOHN HARRINGTON [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GALWAY, Clare, Limerick and Wexford find themselves in the All-Ireland hurling qualifiers because they have been exposed as flawed teams. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DublIn boss Pat Gilroy doesn't believe the selection of Paul Conlon and Eoghan O'Gara for tomorrow's leinster SFC semi-final against Kildare is a gamble, even though neither players has had much competitive football this year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TALKING POINT Clare stand at a crossroads but criticism is rife in the county, explains JOHN HARRINGTON CLARE hurling fans are a schizophrenic bunch. When their team is going well there are none better, but when it struggles there are few worse. It's not that long ago that a Munster SHC clash against Tipperary would set the entire county aflame, but this week you would swear someone spread a wetblanket from the Shannon to the Atlantic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THEIR rivalry might not enjoy the profile of some other heated clashes in Gaelic games, but the enmity between Roscommon and Leitrim football fans is as hot as a jalapeno pepper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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HENRY FORD once said that if he had to live life over again he'd make twice as many mistakes because he'd learn twice as much. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BEFORE a ball has been kicked in the Ulster SFC, that sulphurous slur 'puke football' has already been invoked. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TALKING POINT League form goes a long way, says JOHN HARRINGTON, especially come the summer. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MUNSTER hurling counties have traditionally felt a tad superior to their peers in Leinster. Even when Kilkenny swept all before them in the last decade, the accusation that they benefited from having an easy ride in their own province was frequently thrown at them. In Munster they have always reckoned their own Championship is a much more testing one — that there's no such thing as a soft game and the general standard of hurling is significantly higher than it is in Leinster. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With Kerry and Tyrone on the slide, JOHN HARRINGTON sees new superpowers emerging [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TOMORROW'S match against Cork has been described by many as a 'defining challenge' for this Dublin team. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TALKING POINT Who goes up and who goes down is far from clear as JOHN HARRINGTON explains IF the two great loves of your life are Gaelic Football and mathematics, then the final round of the Allianz League tomorrow will be a special sort of nirvana. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Dublin are winning but Pat Gilroy doesn't know his best team, says JOHN HARRINGTON [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE further you fall the harder you land, which is probably why Kilkenny hurling fans are feeling uncharacteristically fragile at the moment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Meath face a relegation fight and JOHN HARRINGTON can't see any heroes to save them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOHN HARRINGTON on why Wexford face the prospect of yet another heavy defeat. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]