Larne to face Linfield in Irish Cup final
Larne and Linfield will contest the Sadler s Peaky Blinder Irish Cup final at Mourneview Park on Friday evening, kick-off 7:45.
Double-chasing Linfield reached the decider courtesy of a three-goal defeat of Ballymena United while Larne, in their first final since 2005, got past Crusaders on penalties after it ended one apiece at the end of 90 minutes.
In the afternoon kick-off, Philip Lowry opened the scoring for the Crues on 27 minutes after Ben Kennedy delivered a cross from the left for the 31-year-old to stab home at the near post from the edge of the six-yard box.
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Matt Holland has joined up with the Irish squad ahead of this summer s World Cup. The Town skipper looks likely to take some part in Niall Quinn s testimonial at the Stadium of Light on Tuesday.
AWS, Microsoft and Google secure spots on £750m UK government Cloud Compute framework
Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle are among the suppliers to secure a place on the four-year CCS Cloud Compute framework
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft are among the nine suppliers to have secured a place on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) £750m hyperscale-focused Cloud Compute framework.
The four-year framework is set up to allow public and third-sector organisations to purchase cloud infrastructure and platform-as-a-service offerings in high volume directly from suppliers that specialise in the provision of hyperscale, general-purpose compute environments.
The tale of the team of 40-year-olds from Cork who rattled Bayern Munich
Thirty years ago, the draw for the first round of the Uefa Cup paired the Bundesliga giants with Cork City. By Paul Dollery Saturday 8 May 2021, 8:00 AM 2 hours ago 11,792 Views 13 Comments
THE GAME WAS only a few minutes old, but it already had the look of one that Stefan Effenberg wasn’t going to enjoy.
A pass that was bound for a team-mate was sent askew by a divot in the playing surface, emitting sarcastic applause from the home supporters.
“Stick to the tennis, Edberg!” recommended one of them.