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# Really?
Broken baby toes and some of the worst excuses in sport
Rory McIlroy’s toothache is just the latest in a long line.
# choc-a-block
The Big Fat Christmas Chocolate Quiz
Calling all chocolate affecionados: do you really know your Quality Streets from your Roses? Only one way to find out…
# North Korea
5 things you didn’t know about Kim Jong Il
Get the lowdown on North Korea’s leader, from the quest for the perfect pizza to giant rabbits…
# Hold back page
The Sunday Papers: the best of the week’s sportswriting
Stick a pot of coffee on and put your feet up. Here’s some gems you may have missed this week.
# Opinion Polls
Fine Gael maintains lead as Martin polls well
Opinion polls in two of tomorrow’s newspapers show Fine Gael with a healthy lead – but Micheál Martin’s the most popular leader.
# Irish Economy
Martin concedes: FF could support FG minority government
The end of the Civil War? If Fine Gael pledge to enact the Four Year Plan, Fianna Fáil would return the Tallaght Strategy.
# Egypt
Two Pharaonic mummies destroyed in Egyptian protests
An army unit secured the Egyptian Museum in Central Cairo, but not before two mummies are ruined, reports say.
# Trisha Eisel
$21m NY lottery's Irish winner won after snow delays
Trisha Eisel, from Tullamore, bought her lottery ticket after her flight home for Christmas was cancelled by snow.
# Bhutan
Buddhist monk faces five years for breaking smoking law
The monk is the first person to be charged under Bhutan’s anti-smoking legislation.
# Relationships
Men twice as likely to forgive girl-on-girl cheating
Half of men would forgive a girlfriend for cheating with another woman – and are more than twice as forgiving as women.
# Whip Hand
Trials day in Cheltenham as punters seek clearer picture
Cheltenham’s card has just survived an inspection and there’ll be plenty to glean from today’s action ahead of the March festival.
# Window Pane
Torres looks for his only way out
It’s trophies not cash that motivate El Nino, writes Paul Ring.
# Seanad Éireann
Dáil unlikely to need summoning for Finance Bill
The Finance Bill will finish its passage through the Seanad today, allowing dozens of on-hold TDs to take Saturday night off.
# Egypt
Egypt's under-pressure president sacks cabinet and pledges reform
Muhammad Hosni Mubarak sacks his government and promises economic and political reforms, as protests continue.
# Fire
Woman dies, and another injured, in separate Dublin fires
A 29-year-old woman dies in a fire in her apartment on Grenville St, while a 93-year-old is injured after a Donnybrook blaze.
# UFC Weekly
Un-caged: tapping into Facebook
Brian Kirk is locked in an Octagon and he’s not coming out until we get answers on the latest UFC action.
# Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela released from hospital
South African fears for Mandela’s health eased when news broke the 92-year-old had been released from hospital and was “well”.
# Bailout
No negotiation on bailout deal for Fine Gael and Barroso
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny says he didn’t travel to Brussels to negotiate, but did not indicate if Barroso had suggested rengotiation was on the table.
# Mass Rape
53 men, women, children raped in DRC in three days, says MSF
Humanitarian aid agency says the already-volatile situation in eastern DRC has deteriorated further, as new reports of mass rape emerge.
# Egypt
410 injured in continuing Cairo protests (Video, Photos)
Demonstrators target police vehicles and state offices as they defy curfew and stay on the streets of Cairo.
# McShane
Natasha McShane's recovery impeded by superbug
Irish student who was seriously assaulted in a late-night attack in Chicago last year has contracted a superbug after undergoing brain surgery.
# Courts
Man convicted for murder of Joselita da Silva in Tullamore
Brazilian man stabbed his flatmate to death at their home in Co Offaly in 2009.
# Transfer Window
On his way: Liverpool agree €26.5million Suarez transfer
Reds get their man at last as Ajax accept latest offer.
# Brazil
Brazilian man kept wife locked in cellar for at least 8 years
Meanwhile, he allegedly live in the house upstairs with another woman. Police found his wife naked and locked in filthy basement after anonymous tip-off.
# Flutter
Five steps to heaven: an unlikely route to a fortune
Bertie’s in Fagan’s buying a round for the lads. Ivor’s heading for West Cork with a bit of Springsteen on the stereo. Enda and Noonan are on the town in Brussels. Here’s how to never work again.
# Northern Ireland
NI X-ray delay meant two late cancer diagnosis cases
A major backlog of X-ray delays in the Northern Irish health system meant at least there two late diagnoses of cancer.
# Data Protection
Revenue laptops stolen
Office of the Revenue Commissioners says laptops are encrypted, but it will investigate what kind of information was stored on them and how secure it is.
# Faceluck
Dublin dad gets car back through Facebook
Warren Coakley says you shouldn’t underestimate the power of Facebook, after someone who saw a status update about the theft located the stolen vehicle.
# Cycling
Sean Kelly An Post team get in the saddle
Four Irish riders are set for another year in the peloton with Sean Kelly’s An Post team.
# Bye Bye Bertie
Bertie and his Bowl left out in the cold by Martin and FF
Micheal Martin dismisses Bertie’s “obsession” with National Stadium as Fianna Fail says Ahern interview is “irrelevant” to the future of the party in Election 2011.
# NFL
The top four Super Bowl upsets
Steven O’Rourke takes a look at the biggest shocks in Super Bowl history.
# Tourism
Tourism chiefs unveil 20,000-job revival plan
The ‘Tourism Opportunity’ confederation launches a report promising jobs if we change how we market Ireland.
# RBS 6 Nations
Already out of Italy trip, Tommy Bowe is now a worry for France game
Ospreys physio is not optimistic of winger facing France a week after trip to Italy.
# Ivor The Terrible
Ivor's Seanad finale: "The truth shall set you free"
The controversial Senator retires in the same way he lived: annoying pretty much everyone else in Seanad Éireann.
# Your Say
Poll: Should we have built a National Stadium?
Bertie Ahern says he regrets not securing a National Stadium in his tenure. Do you think we should have built one?
