KT on song for Sick Kids fight
Edinburgh News – up in St Andrews but has family and friends in Edinburgh, was shocked to learn the Scottish Edinburgh Rugby also gave their backing to the Evening News campaign last week, as four

Paterson given stand off role to take on Baa-baas
Edinburgh News – CHRIS PATERSON was today handed the Scottish rugby’s coveted stand off shirt for tomorrow’s Lloyd’s TSB tour match against the Barbarians at Murrayfield. Of course, the move

Bry’s double could spark Killie revival
Kilmarnock Standard – And Bryson is confident that the morale boosting win over the Dons can set up the Rugby I had one disallowed against Airdrie in the Scottish Cup, so I’m delighted now to get off

Atomica Eat Drink
News.com.au – his long locks gave him a remarkable dissimilarity to the follicly challenged rugby When you eat at the Green Papaya you dine with French thinker and statesman Andre Malraux.

Stars who put the strop in sport
Evening Star – interested in Cups, only money. He has since apologised to his Spurs team-mates. Rugby France on Saturday night was great value for English fans, more so as one watched French

Strange twist in Bakkies’ saga
Beeld – Pretoria – Rumours are doing the rounds in rugby circles that lawyers are looking for issued a statement earlier this week to deny reports that Botha was joining the French

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Benny: I can fill Hearts’ goal gap left by Velicka
Edinburgh News – RICARDAS BENIUSIS today pleaded with Hearts coach Stephen Frail to end his boredom on the bench and grant him the opportunity to fill the void left by Andrius Velicka. Velicka

Ryanair sees profits soar to new heights
Edinburgh News – IRISH no-frills airline Ryanair has seen its profits soar to record levels for the first half of the year, with its low fares drawing in passengers over the summer. The Dublin

EC lifts ban on Brazilian beef
Irish Times – for issues such as production standards and animal welfare to take main stage at world trade talks, adding that the action means than beef produced to a lower standard than Irish

Kenyan town plans demo over Obama Somali photo
Reuters UK – The controversy made headlines in Kenya where many people support the Democratic front-runner in the way the Irish idolised U.S. President John F.

Top-level meetings will open door to better relations
Scotsman – There was provision for this to be extended to cover Belfast if and when the Northern Irish agreed on devolution. Central to the concordats were the joint ministerial committees

Race row e-mail staff allowed back to work
Edinburgh News – storm, teacup, in, a — rearrange into a well known phrase or saying. cartoonists get away with slagging off Glaswegians, Aberdonians and the Irish but make a joke of one of our

Care called up to England squad
Surrey Comet – Paul Hodgson, London Irish; Jamie Noon, Newcastle Falcons; Paul Sackey, London Wasps; Mat Tait, Newcastle Falcons; Lesley Vainikolo, Gloucester Rugby;

Dance students take on the Irish
Missisauga News Online – Five Mississauga girls are ready to slip into their dancing shoes and sequined costumes to take on the world March 23-30 at the 2008 World Irish Dancing Championship in Belfast

Period drama deserves high praise
Bromsgrove Standard – Talented 13-year-old Irish schoolgirl and Oscar nominee, Saoirse Ronan gives a mature performance for her portrayal of a confused youngster whose lies tear a family apart.

Gaffney gambling on ‘Frank’
This is Hertsford – Alan Gaffney admits he is taking a gamble on deploying wing Francisco Leonelli as an emergency outside centre in Saracens ‘ “must win” Premiership clash at London Irish on Saturday

Biggest earthquake in 25 years shakes England awake
Daily Mail – 200 and 300 earthquakes are detected and located in the UK every year by the British The former England rugby star was hoping to recreate an updated version of the classic

Terrorised by Torres
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Dragons’ Den boss given armed guard after calling American Inventor
Daily Mail – The businessman, 41, known for his scathing remarks on British TV, also attracted a stalker The former England rugby star was hoping to recreate an updated version of the classic

What the drug giants WON’T tell you
Daily Mail – Richard Ley, of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, says all its member The former England rugby star was hoping to recreate an updated version of the classic

Dawes backing Jones to be leader of the Lions’ pride
IC Wales – has joined the call backing Ryan Jones’ credentials to be the next leader of the British Frank Hadden’s Scotland to become the 34th player to lead the Lions out in Test rugby.

Moore dismisses IRB plans
SkySports – The IRB are set to meet with rugby union’s leading nations in Hong Kong on Sunday, with I’d also be worried about how it would impact on the British and Irish Lions tours which

This was the most vital goal Naka has scored for Celtic
Glasgow Evening Times – We have seen him do it time and time again, not just in training, but in games at every level for Celtic,” said the Irish defender. “I think the goal he scored against St Mirren is

Giovanni Trapattoni (9 pictures)
Guardian Unlimited – Irish supporter: Surely you can’t be serious that we appointed Trapattoni as manager. Trapattoni: I am serious and don’t call me Shirley. The joke works better verbally, but it

THE DOGS OF WAR
Daily Express – Paul Keevil, of The British and Irish Dog Breeds Preservation Trust, condemned the new-style ’dramatics’ of the once understated show which “dilute what Crufts should be about

Kearney knows no fear
Belfast Telegraph – meteoric rise will be confirmed when he steps out tomorrow into one of European rugby There was a game against the Pacific Islanders where I could have been involved.

Rugby: All Blacks could play test in US
New Zealand Herald – The All Blacks may once again showcase rugby in the United States if a new agreement All Blacks played a match against America in Berkeley as part of their tour of the Pacific

Who saw the sun today?
Chicago Sun-Times – Natural disasters on a biblical scale — 50 tornadoes down south. Our rugby scrum Just as the Pacific Garden Mission makes its street people sit through a church service

Moderator says anti-English bigotry is ‘like sectarianism’
Scotland on Sunday Online – ANTI-ENGLISH bigotry in Scotland is on a par with sectarianism and should not be tolerated as part of a “healthy society,” according to the leader of the Kirk. The Moderator of the

Makelesi, Moji take top awards
Fiji Times – Rauluni has extended his stay with the Saracens Rugby Club in England after spending time Batimala retained supremacy and reigned as top female track star at the 2007 South Pacific

Your Comments : Ali’s claim wrong: Nacewa
Fiji Times – These NGO’s ought to direct their concern’s in areas of which they specialize, one that pops into mind is Angenette Heffernan which is the executive director of Pacific Center

Brazil coach praised
National – team becoming the best in the region by winning gold medals in the past two Pacific Games BOMANA off-season rugby league competition came alive at the Macgregor Police College

Rugby sevens: NZ blitz Wales, Fiji and South Africa exit (+ photos)
New Zealand Herald – imperious first-day form continued in today’s quarterfinals of the International Rugby upset in the quarterfinals by Samoa and Tonga respectively, who will meet in an all-Pacific

Back on? Kate Hudson ‘rekindles her romance’ with troubled ex Owen
Daily Mail – And on Saturday morning, Wilson was photographed leaving Hudson’s Pacific Palisades home The former England rugby star was hoping to recreate an updated version of the classic

World news
Belfast Telegraph – The All Blacks, Wallabies, Springboks – they all bring a little something to the game.” But its demise won’t just be cultural, said Qondisa Ngwenya, of the sports marketing

Kangaroo killing code draws flak from animal groups
Reuters UK – A proposed code of conduct for shooting young kangaroos, called joeys, and smaller wallabies released by the Department of Environment also recommended a single close-range

Williams named Australia assistant coach
Guardian Unlimited – MELBOURNE, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Former Australia loose forward Jim Williams had been named as an assistant coach of the Wallabies to work under New Zealander Robbie Deans, the

Snake gobbles up family’s dog
The Sun – Stuart Douglas, owner of the Australian Venom Zoo in Kuranda, said scrub pythons typically eat wild animals such as wallabies, a smaller relative of the kangaroo, but sometimes

Prop Kepu to start for Waratahs
ninemsn – The 22-year-old was drafted into the run-on team after Wallabies prop Al Baxter was ruled out following the head knock he suffered against the Chiefs last week.

MacLeod escapes ban after not declaring asthma drug
Guardian Unlimited – The Scottish Rugby Union’s international administrations manager, Gregor Nicholson, said to a one-year ban but most punishments have been lenient – last year an unnamed English

Earthquake hits Britain, 5.3 magnitude
Times Online – Iwona Prazak, Rugby, Even a 6.9 quake in New Zealand late last year probably didn’t make it to the English

Velicka makes point but Hearts sink even further
Scotland on Sunday Online – And it meant that despite their one-man advantage the Rugby Park side were the ones are the kind needed to stay in the spl will only be brought in by a Scottish/English manager

Argentina invited to play South Africa in Mandela match
Guardian Unlimited – Argentina finish third in last year’s World Cup in France are based at French and English Mandela, a keen rugby follower who was South Africa’s president when the Springboks won

Glum Ashton can learn a lot from lively Lievremont and energetic
7 Days UAE – It’s easy to forget the personalities in modern rugby, not least because they are so Rob Andrew, Francis Baron et al, all are the epitome of the suave and slimy English

Focused Wilkinson ignores critics
BBC Sport – The 28-year-old outside-half has recently had his place in the side questioned, but the World Cup winner says criticism no longer affects him. “In years gone by, I’d have been

Elrod: His own conservative
Indianapolis Star – And others look at Elrod’s life — an amateur stage actor and former rugby player who College, where both dorms and living quarters are housed in a 19th century English manor

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Banish the Bags: Used for minutes but last 1,000 years The life
Daily Mail – A recent Greenpeace report found that one remote area, called the Pacific Gyre, a whirling The former England rugby star was hoping to recreate an updated version of the classic

‘Keelhaulers’ has a certain ring
Vallejo Times-Herald – The Cal Maritime Keelhaulers, who play in the California Pacific Conference, appeared fifth The 865-student school also fields soccer, rugby, golf and water polo teams.

BARON DEFENDS DECISION
Sporting Life – international this year with the All Blacks set to be the opponents, subject to approval from the International Rugby Board. The match is just three weekends after the Pacific

Argentina driven by adversity
Scotland on Sunday Online – The Pacific Islanders are pursued by pride and the Springboks are what they are, and what The Wallabies are defined by what they are not, namely rugby league and Aussie Rules.

Sixteen hurt as heavy snow chaos hits Japan
News.com.au – 2pm AEDT), with a low-pressure system moving northeast along the archipelago’s Pacific Two rugby matches in the nation’s top league were called off, while all the horse racing

Ben at Work: How to go on if ‘Friday Night Lights’ goes off
CBS Sportsline – Jason will then buy a plane ticket to Australia, where he plans to enter a wheelchair rugby tournament. While crossing the Pacific, Jason’s plane is torn in half and

Publicis Groupe: Annual Results 2007
Forbes – 7% North America 2,016 1,842 9.4% 1.7% Asia-Pacific Egypt), Uplace shopping mall (Belgium), Visit Britain (United Kingdom), Wellington Rugby

Pilot navigates China
Financial Times – Cathay Pacific’s Tony Tyler says there is no easy money for airlines in China, with fares his passion for sports, although he has switched to indoor rowing rather than rugby, a

The big hit that kick-started England’s season
Daily Mirror – It produced doubt where there had been none in the minds of the unbeaten French, and They had been playing fantastic rugby, really tearing defences apart, but our defence

Gender row cooking up in classroom
Scotland on Sunday Online – In Highers, female candidates make up the majority of entries in French, administration won’t be happy until all the boys are playing with Barbies and the girls playing rugby.

Babies R Us Part 2
Raising Kids – boards sorted before they come and rip out old flooring. Other than that played rugby This week, it has been french bread and butter for my dinner (all I fancy) and DH has been

Bakkies could be fit to face Sharks
Independent Online – to be released from his Bulls contract in order to join French club Toulon was denied two weeks ago. Toulon, where his Bok Lock partner Victor Matfield is now playing his rugby, has

England will come good, says Martin Corry
Daily Telegraph – I’ve always been a massive admirer of French rugby and I am delighted to see they are playing the type of rugby they are playing at the moment.

Elton says he’s ‘too old’ to wear silly clothes and then he goes out
Daily Mail – Elton make a loud entrance dressed as French monarch Louis XIV to his 50th birthday at The former England rugby star was hoping to recreate an updated version of the classic

When is an independent tribunal independent?
Herald – There was quite enough uproar in Scotland when the referee of the recent Scotland v France match had a French father. Independent? The International Rugby Board should know better.

Elrod: His own conservative
Indianapolis Star – And others look at Elrod’s life — an amateur stage actor and former rugby player who His grandfather, French Elrod, was a Marion County commissioner from 1955 to 1965.