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St. Patrick’s Athletic 1 Shamrock Rovers 2 A double from Thomas Stewart beat leaders St. Pat’s before a big crowd at Richmond Park as Rovers made it eight games unbeaten.
Drogheda United 1 Dundalk 3 Dundalk bounced back well from their shock defeat at home to bottom side Bray on Monday to ease to a big win in the wee county derby at Hunky Dorys Park.
Bray Wanderers 0 Galway United 2 Despite having to play defender Rhys Meynell in goal due to a goalkeeping crisis at the club, Galway breezed to victory at the Carlisle Grounds.
Bohemians 0 UCD 0 UCD frustrated the misfiring champions at Dalymount Park as they came away with a deserved point.
Connacht 12 Toulon 19 A hugely committed effort from Connacht was not enough as Jonny Wilkinson guided his Toulon side through to their first Amlin Challenge Cup final.
Clare Senior hurling manager Ger ‘Sparrow’ O’Loughlin has named a youthful starting line-up for this Sunday’s Allianz NHL Division 2 final against Wexford, with seven of last year’s All-Ireland winning under 21 side in the starting line-up.
Tiger Woods was tonight on course to miss the halfway cut in the Quail Hollow Championship.
Belgium’s lower house of parliament has banned burqa-type Islamic dress in public.
Doug Howlett and Ian Dowling have failed to take their places in the Munster team to face Biarritz for Sunday’s Heineken Cup semi-final.
The Premier League have cleared Fulham of any wrong doing after West Ham complained about the team they fielded against Hull on March 27.