SPORT: Fabio Capello and The Last Crusade

There is a great scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where the competing parties searching for the Holy Grail must make their ultimate choice at the adventures end from a vast array of cups, guarded by a crumbling old knight. Indy’s Nazi nemesis sips from a suitably dazzling, golden, bejewelled example and promptly disintegrates, crumbling into dust. An “unwise choice,” the old knight notes. Our hero then picks out a humble looking wooden receptacle and is rewarded by the healing properties of the cup of Christ.

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SPORT: Euro 2012 – We’re All going On A Summer Holiday

So you love football, but you’ve decided that rather than just spend a few weeks drinking in pubs and watching Euro 2012 on big TVs, you’d rather go to Poland and/or Ukraine and drink in pubs and watch games on big TVs. Fair enough. But do you know anything about either country? Crime rates? No, neither do I, and to be honest I’m not about to scare anyone out of taking a trip that could be one of the best in their life. But if you are planning to nip over for the tournament, you might need to know a thing or two, and soon, as flights etc. will only jump drastically the closer we come to May 2012.

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SPORT: Aiden O’Rourke, Queen’s GAA Development Officer

Aiden O’Rourke has been working in his role as GAA development officer at Queen’s since June. Despite being a newcomer to the job, Aiden is no stranger to Queen’s, being a graduate, successful football player and latterly coach of the GAA club. Aiden reached the pinnacle of his playing career in 2002, winning the All Ireland title with Armagh.

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SPORT: Is now the perfect time to stage the Open in Northern Ireland?

Darren Clarke’s magnificent win at the weekend at the Royal St. George course in England has cemented Northern Ireland’s place as the current golfing capital of the world. Three major winners in thirteen months are from the north. Moreover six winners of the last seventeen majors have come from the island of Ireland. Surely the time is right for the Open championship to return to these shores for the first time in over half a century.

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OPINION: FIFA – The Only Way is Ethics

What is a crisis? Perhaps it is a time of great difficulty or a period of instability. The definition of what actually constitutes ‘a crisis’ is open to interpretation and often context-dependent. However, what is certain is that the corruption scandal that has hit FIFA has left this all-powerful organisation in the midst of a major crisis.

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