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RONAN O'GARA takes centre stage on his favourite piece of real estate this afternoon defying Wales to end three decades of almost unbroken Irish rule in Cardiff.
Ireland's reinstated fly-half has converted the Millennium Stadium into a fiefdom of his very own, lording it over all-comers there in the course of achieving a Holy Trinity of victories for country and province beyond his wildest dreams. Now, after winning one Grand Slam for Ireland and two European Cup finals for Munster against French clubs, O'Gara intends to remind those with short memories that he remains master of the Welsh citadel.
...'ve done all you could and you've hung the boots up.'. There is no sign of that happening for a whi...Rules decree that it can only be closed if both teams agree and...
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FOR many years now Mohammed Al Fayed has been telling friends he wants to be buried in a gold sarcophagus. Eccentric as that notion might be, there seemed an odd sort of logic to the pharoah-like decree.
Such whims are par for the course to those familiar with Al Fayed. Friends no doubt believed nothing he did could ever really shock them - until yesteday.
...He padded around in his Ugg boots, only donning his Gucci loafers when heading down ...
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RONAN O'GARA takes centre stage on his favourite piece of real estate this afternoon defying Wales to end three decades of almost unbroken Irish rule in Cardiff.
Ireland's reinstated fly-half has converted the Millennium Stadium into a fiefdom of his very own, lording it over all-comers there in the course of achieving a Holy Trinity of victories for country and province beyond his wildest dreams. Now, after winning one Grand Slam for Ireland and two European Cup finals for Munster against French clubs, O'Gara intends to remind those with short memories that he remains master of the Welsh citadel.
...'ve done all you could and you've hung the boots up.' There is no sign of that happening for a whil...Rules decree that it can only be closed if both teams agree and...
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FOR many years now Mohammed Al Fayed has been telling friends he wants to be buried in a gold s a r c o p h a g u s. Eccentric as that notion might be, there seemed an odd sort of logic to the pharoah-like decree.
Such whims are par for the course to those familiar with Al Fayed.
...He padded around in his Ugg boots, only donning his Gucci loafers when heading down ...
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SOMETIMES we seem to be in danger of doing our sportsmen some disservice. We forget that for the most part they tend to be very young and have a lot to learn. The fact that they are often grossly overpaid shouldn't be allowed to cloud our judgment. They're only paid what some people are prepared to pay them. This train of thought trundled into the station recently when two footballers, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, were taken off before the end of matches in which they were taking part and Rooney started to throw boots about and Ronaldo looked as if someone had stolen his fruit gums.
In neither case, I would submit, were the reactions all that surprising. Most people who played football in their youth and can still remember the experience, will realise, if they put their minds to ...
... the end of the game were by the referee's decree or by stretcher. However, while games might evolve...
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FOR many years now Mohammed Al Fayed has been telling friends he wants to be buried in a gold sarcophagus. Eccentric as that notion might be, there seemed an odd sort of logic to the pharoah-like decree.
Such whims are par for the course to those familiar with Mr Al Fayed. Friends no doubt believed nothing he did could ever really shock them - until yesteday.
...He padded around in his Ugg boots, only donning his Gucci loafers when heading down ...
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with an extraordinary exhibition of acrobatics.
Spina bifida victim, David Powell, aged 15, now goes through as the amateur intermediate champion to the national finals of the BBC TV Nationwide competition in London. He will compete against finalists from other regions.
... Tony Blackburn, 33, was granted a divorce decree nisi from his 29-year-old actress wife Tessa in th... ace David Cynan Jones will be swapping his boots for a conductor's baton shortly to help his team o...
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The murder trial of a young girl from Middridge sparked national outrage and led to major changes in the law in the late 19th Century. Today it has lost nothing of its fascination, as a retired County Durham police officer re-opens the case files
His lordship then, amid deep silence, formally passed sentence of death upon the prisoner. The unfortunate girl, who had stood with her face buried in her handkerchief, sobbed convulsively while his lordship spoke the words of doom, seemed utterly prostrated by the terrible sentence and was born from the dock by the female attendant.
... an amateur detective, noticed her muddy boots and asked if she were running away. Sarah ended up... would be an outrage to execute the fatal decree. While the gallows waits for its victim, the publi...
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The good news A wonder metal that fires your phone, iPod and shiny new electric car is so clean it may save the planet
The bad news More than half of the world's lithium is beneath this Bolivian desert... and getting it is so dirty it inspired the latest Bond plot
... anklelength lace skirt and digs her heavy boots into the salty ground beneath her feet. The engine...'s hard hat, he read out a nine- point decree under which the Bolivian state proclaimed its cont...
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In the end, it was the Liverpool FC dressing gown hanging on the back of her bedroom door that made Helen Hawkins snap. She was packing her belongings into boxes last week when she saw it. It was a woman's size and belonged to Sally Antia - her husband Mark's mistress and the only person Helen knew who was as ardent a fan of The Reds as he was.
Helen had tolerated their initial friendship, born, ironically enough, from a love of football.
... her pyjamas and brown suede kitten heel boots in the house. If she isn't living there, she's cer... arrangements before they receive their decree absolute. 'I would have walked through fire to sav...