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Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell shot a better-ball 58 on Thursday to give Ireland a three-stroke lead over Argentina after the first round of the World Cup of Golf on Thursday.
Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy held onto Ireland's three-stroke lead in the World Cup of Golf, shooting a four-under par 68 in the second round foursomes Friday.
Ireland's powerful pairing of Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell stayed out in front at the World Cup Friday but defending champions Sweden powered back into contention.
SHENZHEN, China (AP) -- Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy held onto Ireland's three-stroke lead in the World Cup of Golf on Friday, shooting a four-under par 68 in the second round.
Rory McIlroy bounced back from his disappointing end to the European Tour season by helping Ireland surge to a three-shot lead at the World Cup teams event in China on Thursday.
South Africa is beefing up its scrum and halting experimentation in an effort to overturn northern hemisphere champion Ireland on Saturday. The World Cup holders won for the first time in four European tour matches with a 32-10 victory in Italy last weekend and reacted to the domination of its previously feared front five by moving captain John Smit back to his regular position of hooker.
Ireland's Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell stumbled on the back nine but recovered to retain a three-stroke lead after the second-round foursomes at World Cup of Golf on Friday.
LIMERICK, Ireland, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Residents in parts of Ireland prepared Friday for the possibility of flooding due to heavy rain and rising Shannon River water levels, officials said.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Vatican’s failure to cooperate with a panel investigating the sexual abuse of children by priests in Ireland is “very regrettable,” said an auxiliary Roman Catholic bishop of Dublin, Eamonn Walsh.
SHENZHEN, China -- Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell maintained Ireland's lead at the Omega World Cup at three shots after carding a battling 4-under-par 68 in Friday's foursomes.
A report is due out Thursday on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland, focusing on how those in the Dublin Archdiocese responded to years of complaints.
Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's police commander said Sunday.
McDowell and McIlroy are 18-under through two rounds. SHENZHEN, China (AP) -- Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy held onto Ireland's three-stroke lead in the World Cup of Golf on Friday, shooting a four-under par 68 in the second round.
Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has said he too would have dropped Ronan O'Gara in favour of Jonathan Sexton for Saturday's game between Ireland and South Africa here at Croke Park.
For months, Catholics in Ireland's Archdiocese of Dublin have been bracing themselves for release of a government report on decades of sexual abuse of children by priests and cover up of the abuse by the hierarchy.
Victor Matfield returns to the South Africa team to face Ireland on Saturday as one of four changes from the side that beat Italy last week.
