Irish eccentric condemned to 3,000-euro fine for Olympic marathon stunt
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An Athens court slapped a 3,000-euro (3,700-dollar) fine on the Irish-born former priest who disrupted the Olympic men's marathon by pushing the race leader into the crowd.
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ATHENS, Greece -- If you recall, my concerns involved car bombings, kidnappings, beheadings and Al Qaeda. So when the scariest moment of the Olympics involves a defrocked, kilt-wearing Irish priest who tackles
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Ireland's biggest bank, Allied Irish Bank, has paid back millions of euros to customers who were levied with incorrect foreign exchange charges, chairman Dermot Gleeson said.
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A Northern Ireland businessman has assets put at more than Â£2.75m frozen while investigations continue.
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Irish show jumper Cian O&#39;Connor has accused unnamed enemies of trying to destroy him after a series a dramatic twists in a doping controversy which has threatened his Olympic title.
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Meb Keflezighi knows what people think. That he&#39;s foolish for running the IMG New York City Marathon on Sunday. That 70 days isn&#39;t enough time to recover after his emotional performance at
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A man who illegally hired out a water bike to a Welsh teenager, who crashed into and killed his girlfriend is fined Â£523.
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Avril Doyle, president of the Irish Equestrian Federation, believes Cian O&#39;Connor&#39;s Olympic medal is tarnished following a positive blood test.
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A former Irish priest pushed Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei de Lima off the road when he was leading the Olympic marathon on Sunday. The man was arrested and taken to a police station.
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: A misdemeanor court convicted a defrocked Irish priest for tackling the marathon leader during the Olympic race and on Monday gave him a one-year suspended sentence.
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ATHENS, Greece - A defrocked Irish priest bolted from the crowd and grabbed the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday. The Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima wound up with the bronze - and a special award for sportsmanship - and the former priest was arrested...
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Ireland has dumped miles for kilometres with little mourning but plenty of ridicule as new speed signs popped up everywhere from motorways to mud tracks.
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The Irishman who was arrested after obstructing Brazilian athlete Vanderlei de Lima in the men&#39;s Olympic marathon will be brought to the general district attorney&#39;s office in Athens today.
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ATHENS - Vanderlei de Lima had been running in Greek heat for well over two hours and, by the way, was mugged along the way by a lunatic in a red kilt and high green socks.
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Dublin - Ireland may lose the only Olympic medal it won at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Cian O&#39;Connor&#39;s gold in the individual showjumping event, after it was confirmed on Friday that his horse Waterford Crystal had failed a dope test.
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Ireland&#39;s only medal winner at the Athens Olympics, showjumper Cian O&#39;Connor, withdrew from a nationally televised ceremony Saturday to receive the Irish Person of the Year award -- after his horse failed a drugs test.
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A DEFROCKED Irish priest in a kilt almost ruined the Olympic men&#39;s marathon by attacking the leading runner. Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei de Lima was in front, 5km from the finish, when serial protester Cornelius Horan