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  • Early birds take the honours

    As if to confirm that old cliche that the early-bird catches the worm, the first two teams out in yesterday's pre-tournament Irish Open Pro-Am captured the main honours. In fact, Des Smyth's team - who started proceedings at 7.15 a.m. from the 10th - managed to hold off all-comers to take first place with a Stableford score of 86 points. p
PLAYER PROFILE/PADRAIG HARRINGTONBack to Top

  • Relaxed and ready to take on the challenge

    You can picture his mind, that of the analytical accountant, racing at a million miles an hour. You can imagine him assessing every nuance and quirk of a course that managed to stay out of his reach when he was the country's top amateur. He's like a man who has discovered a new friend, and wondered why it took so long. p
GOLF/IRISH OPENBack to Top

  • Ballybunion

    Hole 1 p

  • Olazabal has the key to Open

    Diplomacy doesn't come quite so easily to 20-year-olds, especially when they happen to be speaking in a foreign language. So it was that Sergio Garcia admitted yesterday that the Old Course wouldn't have been his venue of choice for the defence of the £1 million Murphy's Irish Open, starting this morning. p
EURO 2000/ANALYSIS - ON THE BOXBack to Top

  • New language over at ITV

    Day 15, but it feels like Day Three. Time's winging it. It's been tasty, nay, delectable. Have to feel particularly happy for the youngsters. No longer will they have to listen to auld fellas blathering on about `the modrin game and how rubbish it is'. "You were saying," they're now entitled to ask their elders, with a cheeky wink. p
EURO 2000/ANALYSIS - SEMI-FINAL/PORTUGAL V FRANCEBack to Top

  • Zidane France's saviour

    Controversy erupted in Brussels last evening as France stumbled into the final of Euro 2000 by virtue of a golden goal scored by Zinedine Zidane in the 24th minute of extra time. p
EURO 2000/ANALYSIS - OVERVIEWBack to Top

  • One match too far for gallant Portuguese

    In any competition this big, teams are entitled to start suffering from cases of the jitters when they're only one match off the final. The fact is that it's probably more a tribute than anything else to the quality of football produced by both the French and Portuguese prior to last night's game that this contest felt like such a let-down. p
SEMI-FINAL PREVIEW/HOLLAND V ITALYBack to Top

  • Orange tide mixed blessing for Dutch

    Frank Rijkaard sat upstairs in the white marquee. He was surrounded by grey journalists. He sat against a backdrop that was white with green and red sponsors' logos all over it. The jumper he wore was black. The players who followed him wore blue. p
THE IRISH TIMES/AIB GOLF MASTERSBack to Top

  • Mystic Monks the pacemakers

    Maybe we have a vertigo problem here. For the 11th time in 17 weeks, there's a new name at the top of our overall leaderboard after Paul Ryan's Raiders 5 came over all dizzy and woozy on reaching the summit last week. Either that or you're all reluctant to lead from the front and are hoping Fionnuala McMahon will act as your pacemaker between now and September. p

  • Hundreds of thousands of reasons to buy Irish

    Sometimes we're asked why we insist on our managers using up some of their budgets on a home-produced player. Well, apart from it being our modest contribution to the "Buy Irish" campaign it adds an interesting auld twist to weeks like this. p
PLAYER PROFILE/ALESSANDRO NESTABack to Top

  • Central battle crucial

    When Italy's elegant central defender Alessandro Nesta came out to meet the media at the team's training camp in Geel, near Antwerp, the other day, he was slightly taken aback by one of the early questions. p
GAELIC GAMES/CHAMPIONSHIP 2000Back to Top

  • Glory days over, now Leitrim just crave a win

    Winter training in Leitrim is characterised by an intimacy which small numbers bring. With over half the squad resident in Dublin, the home-based crew found themselves huddling close during the heavy running, for fear that one of them might get lost. p

  • Enright waits in wings

    So the wait continues. Declan Ryan is still hopeful of being fit for Tipperary's Munster hurling final meeting with Cork in Thurles on Sunday but for the time being the centre forward position has been left vacant. p

  • Team check: Ryan given chance

    Tipperary SF p
SPORT DIGESTBack to Top

  • Imp leads Round Ireland on handicap

    Sailing: After six days at sea, the first boats of the Round Ireland Race are expected to cross the finishing line at Wicklow from late this afternoon onwards, writes David Branigan. Locked in combat yesterday for line honours was the British Swan 60-footer Fenix and Michael O'Brien's specially chartered Whitbread 60-footer Tokio. p
OLYMPIC GAMES/IRISH TEAM KITBack to Top

  • New gear given full approval

    So here's what all the fuss was about. Yesterday, we got the first glimpse of what the Irish team will be wearing at the Sydney Olympics in September. p
U-21 HURLINGBack to Top

  • Kilkenny cruise into final

    The All-Ireland champions progressed as expected to next month's Leinster decider following this decisive semi-final win at Parnell Park last night. p
RACING/NEWS ROUND-UPBack to Top

  • Six may take on Montjeu

    Montjeu heads the seven acceptors for the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud on Sunday. The John Hammond-trained colt, winner of the Irish and French Derby along with the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe last season, could be joined in the Group One contest by potential pacemaker Stop By. p

  • McCarron on lookout

    The top American rider Chris McCarron is on the verge of bringing an intriguing trans-Atlantic element to the Irish Derby meeting as the home trainers finalise their big-race plans. p

  • Weld newcomer well up to speed

    Vinnie Roe produced a remarkable burst of speed to score for his owner, the movie producer Jim Sheridan, at Leopardstown last night and left his trainer Dermot Weld proclaiming: "You've seen nothing yet!" p

  • First runner for Queen

    Queen Elizabeth is set to have her first runner in this country when Spinning Top goes for the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday. p
RUGBY/NEWS ROUND-UPBack to Top

  • St Mary's begin at home

    The IRFU yesterday officially announced the 2000-2001 club fixture list for the newly revamped league format. Defending champions St Mary's begin the defence of their title on December 2nd when they host Young Munster at Templeville Road. p
TENNIS/WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONSHIPSBack to Top

  • Kournikova fails to sparkle

    The popular alternative to the Wimbledon tennis championships, Anna Kournikova, committed what some will see as her final selfish act when she prematurely departed the stage 6-3, 6-4 to Anne-Galle Sidot. p

  • Norman fails to live up to promise

    Magnus Norman made another stab yesterday at entering the public consciousness and this time succeeded. Acknowledging that his image is as appealing as a long wet winter night in Filipstad, Norman made his exit to unseeded Olivier Rochus, the Belgian with a toothpick physique and who is even less recognised than the Wimbledon third seed. p
EQUESTRIAN SPORT/OLYMPIC GAMESBack to Top

  • Charles decides to miss Sydney

    Ireland - the land of the horse - will have no show jumpers at the Olympic Games in Sydney. Peter Charles, who was nominated as the sole individual to make the trip when the show jumping team was withdrawn in April, has pulled out and Jessica Kurten, the German-based Co Antrim rider named as reserve, has also withdrawn. p
AMERICA AT LARGEBack to Top

  • US seek primary soccer position

    If July is nearly upon us, it must be time for women's soccer. Almost a year has passed since the US women's team defeated China on penalties to win the distaff version of the World Cup in California's Rose Bowl, and Brandimania has scarcely abated. p
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