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Ulster Rugby - 'We don't really want to be playing in this competition. Sometimes in life you've got to take your medicine' – Ronan O'Gara - Ronan O'Gara was impressively able to navigate a raft of questions in French at La Rochelle's midweek press briefing ahead of their trip to Belfast for Friday's Challenge Cup quarter-final.

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Horse Racing -- Eddie O'Leary hoping ground plays ball for Brighterdaysahead in Aintree Hurdle

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International Soccer -- Romanian soccer great Mircea Lucescu has died, aged 80

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Golf -- Conor McKeon: You've been warned, the Rory McIlroy bandwagon has already left the station at Augusta National

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Gaelic Football -- Colm Keys: All-Ireland SFC countdown – Ulster three-in-a-row a rare feat but it's within Donegal's grasp

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Ulster Rugby -- 'My Mum grew up here' – Ulster sign Irish-qualified fly-half Jamie Benson from Harlequins

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Golf -- 'I played with Rory and Shane growing up, and I'd seen how good they were. I wasn't beating them. I just wasn't'

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Rugby -- 'I'm locked in' – Prop Massimo De Lutiis ends Irish interest by signing new deal to remain at home in Australia

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Golf -- Alan Shipnuck's new book shines spotlight on Rory McIlroy's stubbornness and desire for complete control

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Golf -- 'She made sure I brought her putter' – Rory McIlroy's daughter Poppy ready to shine at the Masters again

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Horse Racing -- Willie Mullins' 2024 winner I Am Maximus headlines Grand National declarations as field of 34 revealed

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Golf -- Oliver Brown: Rory McIlroy's Champions Dinner shows he is no longer the Masters imposter

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Indo Sport podcast: Masters check in | Rory's hot practice round | Conor's Augusta experience

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Indo GAA podcast: The bumper Football Championship preview

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The Left Wing: Leinster's weird win | Munster's systems failure | Quarter-final crackers

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Indo Sport podcast: Leinster's attack starts to click | Munster wilt in the wind | Connacht's six in a row

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Indo GAA podcast: Surgery needed for Cork after the Limerick defeat? | Big Munster calls | Player of the league?

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Cian Tracey: Connacht are daring to dream again as red-hot form mirrors run to title in 2016

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Leinster face potential home semi-final against Toulon or a trip to Murrayfield in Champions Cup

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Andrew Porter injury doubt likely to force Leinster to shuffle their pack

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Dublin ace Emma O'Byrne expecting tough final tussle with Clare as national deciders take centre stage

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Anna Caplice: Opportunity knocks for Ireland to move the dial in what's shaping up as best Women's Six Nations yet

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Carla Ward calls up LOI stars Maria Reynolds and Aoibheann Clancy for Ireland's World Cup qualifying double-header

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Leona Maguire gets Major boost by notching first top-10 for eight months in Las Vegas

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Women's rugby needs separate structures – what we have now is a game that is deeply disconnected in how it operates

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'I know how to deal with the injuries now' – Battered and bruised but never broken, Aoife Wafer is ready to strike

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John Aldridge: Arne Slot should not feel obliged to select Mo Salah – the team is more important than any long goodbye

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Aidan Fitzmaurice: From Croke Park confusion to a Westlife reunion, Manchester United's Irish camp hits peculiar notes

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Real Madrid flattered by scoreline as Bayern Munich lay down Champions League gauntlet

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Ten years on from Premier League win, Leicester fears of relegation to League One deepen as appeal fails over six-point deduction

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Borussia Dortmund plot third Jadon Sancho signing as clock runs down on troubled Man United spell

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'I was getting paid but it was nothing, only peanuts' – Graham Burke on bouncing back from being 'broken'

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Gaelic Football -- 'To take down a Galway, Mayo or Roscommon' – Niall Murphy spells out his Sligo life mission

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Gaelic Football -- Leinster opt to take football semi-finals out of Croke Park again

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GAA -- Martin Breheny: Fifteen weeks to decide 13 titles in football and hurling – here's where they will go

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GAA -- Door still open for return of Sunday All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals as RTÉ announce 35-game schedule

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