There was liberty, equality, fraternity and football in Paris Wednesday night. But no justice. In a moment that will be long remembered, and derided, in Irish sports, the French soccer team advanced to the World Cup finals in South Africa next year with an extra time goal that followed not just one hand ball, but seemingly two.

November 18, 2009 Andy Lee survived a late flurry by Affif Belghecham to win a ten-round unanimous points decision over the French and European Union middleweight champion at the Limerick University Arena last Saturday.

November 18, 2009 In the course of an interview with the Guardian newspaper last week, Stephen Ireland responded to a question about the Irish media by opining that he believed those journalists would prefer the national team to lose rather than to win.