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IN NEWS

Sick children sent to Britain for treatment

Hundreds of families were forced to leave Ireland last year so their sick children could get life-saving operations not available to them at home.

Glamour girl set to pound the pavements for charity

Former model Jayne Connery, who previously dated football personalities Sven-Goran Eriksson and John Terry, takes on a 29-mile run for dementia.

Notorious Dundon gang's British links

The murder conviction of John Dundon last week for the killing of rugby player Shane Geoghegan brings an end to the Dundon gang's hold on Limerick city. Members of the notorious gang's family have many links to London.

Flying into a rage

The Irish Post journalist Robert Mulhern investigates how Ryanair, the budget Irish airline company, found itself at the centre of adverse media interest after the screening of Ryanair: Secrets from the Cockpit, the controversial Channel 4 Dispaches programme.

St Anthony's have the golden touch
Picture special: Players and supporters of St Anthony's GAA club came together to toast the club's 50th anniversary in Reading.

Paying the ultimate penalty

David Langan, the former Oxford United and Birmingham footballer, whose career highlight was marking the great Diego Maradona for the Republic of Ireland, tells The Irish Post how financial hardship has forced him to sell his international cap from the fixture against Argentina.

IN SPORT

Transfer crisis looms for London GAA

London football is facing a transfer crisis that could jeopardise the fortunes of this season's history-making Connacht final team. Manager Paul Coggins, whose own future as Exiles manager is still to be decided, talks to Irish Post Sport.

Future must be built on county players committed to local clubs

A comment piece by Irish Post Sport calls on the five London GAA players who plan to transfer back to their home clubs in Ireland next season to reconsider.

Half-back to his roots

London Irish scrum-half Tomás O'Leary returned to his original sporting passion last week as he joined the Fulham Irish hurlers for a training session. We chat to the Cork man about his hurling past and rugby present.

Steven Reid: The last of the old-school footballers

West Brom's former Irish international Steve Reid has never been impressed by fast motors of the high life, he tells Garry Doyle.

IN ENTERTAINMENT

Viva Morrissey

As a new live show - Morrissey 25: Live from Hollywood High -  hits cinema screens, Lauren Murphy pays tribute to the former Smiths frontman who remains one of music's true remaining icons.

'This is probably the deepest novel I've written'

So says bestselling author Shelia O'Flanagan, who tells The Irish Post's Fiona Audley about how she exposed family secrets in her latest tome.

Cooking up a storm

Boyzone's Shane Lynch talks to The Irish Post about Celebrity Masterchef, motors and 20 years of the boyband.

The Week Ahead

This week's picks: a Peaky Blinders sneak peak; Quietly at the Edinburgh Fringe; Lennon at Liverpool's Royal Court; and the release of Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.