TV queen Rachel Mainwaring reviews this week’s TV

Source: Wales Online

I’ve often wondered what I can do to ‘reinvent’ myself. Take intense tennis lessons and finally achieve the Wimbledon dream? Go back to university and study medicine so I can save lives rather than write about them? While it’s unlikely to ever happen, ce ...
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Croatia warm up with win

Source: RTE Interactive

Updated: Saturday, 26 May 2012 00:12 Croatia's Tomislav Dujmovic Video Audio Republic of Ireland Group C rivals Croatia began their Euro 2012 preparations in earnest with a solid 3-1 friendly victory over Estonia in Rijeka. Vedra ...
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Carroll and Green to start

Source: Irish Times

LIVERPOOL STRIKER Andy Carroll and West Ham goalkeeper Rob Green will start for England in today’s Euro 2012 warm-up match against Norway in Oslo (live on UTV, 7.45pm kick-off) . Manager Roy Hodgson said: “Andy ended the s ...
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For the week that's in it, brush up on some of the highlights of European literature

Source: Irish Times

On Eurovision day, at the start of treaty-referendum week, we draw inspiration from another aspect of European culture. Here are the top books from each EU country as chosen by EILEEN BATTERSBY The urban epic The Man Without ...
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Baldo in Killybegs comes rolling home

Source: Irish Times

CYCLING: THE EFFECTS of wearing yellow in cycling are well documented, with many examples from history showing that riders can raise their level when they are at the head of the general classification. Thomas Voeckler showed it last year when he b ...
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Croatia have a nice send-off

Source: Irish Times

CROATIA provided a perfect send-off for their home fans with a comfortable 3-1 victory against Estonia at a full Aldo Drosina Stadium in Pula last night. Vedran Corluka and Nikola Kalinic put the hosts two ahead after 20 mi ...
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England worry over Welbeck but Parker will start

Source: The Independent

Roy Hodgson last night admitted that taking Danny Welbeck to the European Championship as part of a depleted strike force could be a gamble but that he had to trust medical staff who say the Manchester United forward will ...
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Hodgson will take loss on the chin: Will the nation?

Source: The Independent

This is no place for an England manager trying to make his way. At the Ullevaal Stadium, to which the national side return tonight, Ron Greenwood hit the bottom in a defeat to Norway remembered less for the 2-1 scorelin ...
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James Lawton: No easy feat for Hodgson to sort this mess out

Source: The Independent

More encouraging, surely, to note that among all the England manager's inherited problems exaggerated expectations are not one of them – or at least not until a possible victory over France in the opening game of the European ...
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