Barry had previously been ordered not to report for pre-season training after criticising manager Martin O'Neill in an unauthorised newspaper interview.

BBC: Barry returns to Villa training

Yet Eto'o's hard work in pre-season won over the legendary Barca midfielder, who has been rewarded by the striker's incredible tally of 29 league goals in only 35 matches this season.

BBC: Eto'o the Great

Local community worker Gerry O'Reilly said the fights had been pre-arranged through social media.

BBC: Waterworks Park

His film, Scent of a Mystery (with Peter Lorre as a dirty old man named Smiley), was the premiere and finale of Smell-O-Vision, in which odors were pumped into the theater from the projection room at pre-established cues.

FORBES: Flops

Mr O'Dowd said that children born in July and August would no longer get a preference for pre-school places.

BBC: Review of pre-school admissions

Insiders used to complain that Mr O'Neill was much too concerned with micro-managing the department: he was allegedly much pre-occupied with filing cabinets and did not focus enough on policy.

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