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Benjamin Thomas wins Giro d’Italia stage five after breakaway holds off peloton

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Benjamin Thomas claimed victory in the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia as an expected challenge from the sprinters failed to materialise.

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Irish sailor Eve McMahon ‘honoured’ to feature in Olympic torch relay for 2024 Paris Games

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Paris Olympian Eve McMahon will participate in the Olympic torch relay as the flame begins its journey on French soil from Marseille to Paris.

Ruan Pienaar on hanging up the boots, his coaching philosophy and a potential Ulster return

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As he prepares to embark upon his new rugby adventure, Ruan Pienaar is in a reminiscent mood as the curtain slowly draws down on a remarkable career.

GAA fans to benefit as ‘three for two’ ticket package is rolled out for All-Ireland SFC and Tailteann Cup

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Loyal GAA supporters will be rewarded for following their county with a special 'three for two' ticket package available for group stages of the All-Ireland SFC and the Tailteann Cup.

‘It was a case of getting the job done’ – Dublin camogie teams do the double over Carlow and Meath

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A drone flew over St Peregrine’s on Saturday afternoon. Humphrey Kelleher’s book on 101 GAA grounds, A Place to Play, is filled with spectacular drone photography.

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Sky Sports ramp up EFL coverage with new service to show every match on opening day

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Sky Sports have launched a new service to show every EFL match in the Championship, League One and League Two on the opening day of next season.

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Olympic boost for Daniel Wiffen as big rival will miss Paris

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Daniel Wiffen’s chances of securing a historic Olympic medal in swimming in Paris has been boosted with the revelation that one of his biggest rivals will miss the Games.

Rory McIlroy compares Saudi–PGA Tour talks to Northern Ireland peace process

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Rory McIlroy today compared the difficulty in brokering a deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund to the Northern Ireland peace process and admits his efforts to rejoin the policy board have failed for now due in…

Former Ireland boss Martin O’Neill set for return to management with Romanian club

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Former Ireland boss Martin O’Neill may be set for a return to management in Romania.

Brendan Fanning: How Jamison Gibson-Park went from bit-part Leinster player to Ireland’s greatest scrum-half

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Midway through Jamison Gibson-Park’s first season with Leinster we were wondering if he was going to take Luke McGrath’s place or end up holding his coat.

Stephen O’Donnell returns to football as Bohemians assistant manager

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A month to the day since he was sacked from Dundalk, Stephen O’Donnell has returned to the League of Ireland as assistant manager of Bohemians.

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James Carr will miss start of Mayo’s group campaign after another setback

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James Carr is set to miss the start of Mayo’s All-Ireland SFC group campaign after another setback in what has been an injury-blighted season.

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Talks begin to save boxing as an Olympic sport

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has held its first formal meeting with World Boxing, the newly established organisation which aims to take over the running of the sport globally.

Arsenal and Chelsea in transfer race to sign 17-year-old dubbed ‘little Messi’

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Chelsea have entered the race to sign 17-year-old Palmeiras forward Estevao Willian, who is also interesting Arsenal, Barcelona and Real Madrid.

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Kylian Mbappe ends PSG era in most fitting way – another Champions League failure

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It was too late, but Kylian Mbappe didn’t know that. The final whistle was sufficiently close that there would not have been time for Paris Saint-Germain to score two goals. They didn’t get one: Mbappe, sprinting clear, lost his footing.…

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‘I was really not well over those two weeks’ – RG Snyman reveals he had pneumonia last month

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Munster's Springbok lock RG Snyman has revealed that he was suffering from pneumonia when he missed last month's Champions Cup round of 16 defeat to Northampton Saints.

Manchester United in line for €4m boost as Jadon Sancho reaches Champions League final

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Manchester United will bank close to €4million in add-ons from Jadon Sancho's loan spell at Borussia Dortmund after they reached the Champions League final.

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Winners will take it all but Bayern Munich and Thomas Tuchel have much more to lose

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It’s now just a single game, as Thomas Tuchel said after the first leg, but one that involves a lot of double-think. On the Real Madrid training ground, Carlo Ancelotti knows that sitting deep and countering has become the club’s best way…

Erik ten Hag is sinking at Manchester United but any replacement is set up to fail

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It is not even two years since Casemiro, at his zenith perhaps the finest defensive midfielder in the world, delivered a masterclass to suffocate Liverpool and win his fifth Champions League title with Real Madrid. Today, consumed by the…

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David Moyes gave West Ham their greatest night but leaves them with one concern

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David Moyes will always have Prague, dad dancing in the dressing room to the Proclaimers after, a quarter of a century into his managerial career, winning his first major trophy and West Ham’s first piece of silverware for 43 years.

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‘I’ve learned the luck of the Irish is reserved for the Irish’ – RG Snyman on his misfortune at Munster

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If RG Snyman walked into the room and confessed that, before arriving in Limerick in 2020, he’d walked under several ladders and smashed a house full of mirrors, you’d believe every word.

Kildare’s Tailteann Cup opener against Longford limited to 1,200 fans as the venue is their training ground

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Kildare’s first Tailteann Cup game against Longford at Hawkfield on Saturday will have a capacity of just 1,200, another snapshot of how far the county’s football fortunes have fallen.

‘We only have ourselves to blame’ – Darragh Kirwan hopes Kildare can save dismal season in Tailteann Cup

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It’s not a competition they had aimed to take any part in – but, on all known form this year, the Tailteann Cup is exactly where the Kildare senior footballers deserve to be as the second-tier championship kicks off this weekend.

Connacht’s Conor Oliver hungry for the green of Ireland – ‘I’m not there yet, but I definitely believe in myself

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As he freely admits, Conor Oliver’s career has navigated a series of different routes.

High-flying Lee Chin insists Wexford hurlers will ‘just keep fighting’ to make Leinster shake-up

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You could travel the length and breadth of the country many times over but you’d do well to find a hurler scaling the same heights as Lee Chin right now.

Can Rory McIlroy stop his Major drought officially becoming a decade long? Three chances left to do so in 2024

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Rory McIlroy has three more chances in 2024 to win a Major before it officially becomes a 10-year drought.

Mats Hummels on target as Borussia Dortmund claim famous win over PSG to reach Champions League final

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Borussia Dortmund reached their third Champions League final after Mats Hummels' second-half goal earned a 1-0 victory at Paris St Germain for a 2-0 aggregate win on Tuesday.

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Martin Breheny: Pundit logic defies reality when it comes to referees but drives social media guff

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Kevin McStay hasn’t told us whether he plays the stock exchange, but if he does, the investments are probably long-term and wise. Even amid the emotionally charged minutes after Mayo’s one-point defeat in the Connacht final, he had an eye…

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Two late goals give Dublin minors an unexpected one-point win in Leinster semi-final against Kildare

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Two Dublin goals inside the last three minutes salvaged an unlikely one-point victory in the semi-final of the Electric Ireland Leinster Minor Football Championship at Manguard Park in Newbridge.

Ian Baraclough and Stephen Kenny in mix to be St Pat’s boss after Jon Daly axing

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St Patrick’s Athletic may target former Sligo Rovers and Northern Ireland boss Ian Baraclough to steady the ship after the sacking of their FAI Cup-winning manager Jon Daly.